On This Day;

[Rita_Poon]

On this date in 1805 Admiral Horatio Nelson won a battle (Trafalgar) but lost his life.
A French sniper fired from the mizentop of 'The Redoubtable'. The musket ball entered Nelsons left shoulder and passed through his lung and into his spine.
His body was put into a barrel of Brandy until after the battle. His ship 'The Victory' was then towed to Gibraltar where the body was transferred to a lead lined coffin.

Shoulder, lung then spine is a bit of a crack-shot. Was he stood on a grassy knoll?