Admiral Nelson’s actual final words as he died at the Battle of Trafalgar finally ‘revealed’ Letter also suggests Nelson was shot twice and not once as once thought.
“Immediately on his wound being dressed he insisted again on being brought on deck when shortly afterward he rec’d [received] a shot through his body he survived however till the evening: long enough to be informed of the capture of the French Admiral and of the extent of the glorious victory he had obtained.
Admiral Lord Nelson’s famous last words may not have been “kiss me, Hardy,” according to a newly unearthed letter.
The Battle of Trafalgar saw the Royal Navy defeat a joint Franco-Spanish fleet thus preventing it from taking control of the English Channel, which would have enabled the French dictator to launch a land invasion of Britain.
The letter will go under the hammer on Wednesday (18 December) at Bonhams, New York, and is said to have been written by petty officer, George Sievers, six days after Nelson’s killing.
