Diaries of a 19th Century Military Wife Uncovered
Modern military wives typically don't ship out alongside their husbands, but the young wife of a British naval officer did just that during the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century. Now a historian who tracked down 40 unpublished volumes of her diaries has gotten the go-ahead to write a book investigating her life.
Elizabeth "Betsey" Wynne accompanied her husband aboard his warship during a disastrous British assault on the Spanish Canary Islands. She spent the voyage home-nursing the wounded Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, whom lost his right arm during the attack and would go on to become one of England's greatest military heroes of all time.
Nelson later foiled Napoleon's master plan to invade England when he led a British fleet to victory over a combined French-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, but at the cost of his own life....
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Elizabeth "Betsey" Wynne accompanied her husband aboard his warship during a disastrous British assault on the Spanish Canary Islands. She spent the voyage home-nursing the wounded Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, whom lost his right arm during the attack and would go on to become one of England's greatest military heroes of all time.
Nelson later foiled Napoleon's master plan to invade England when he led a British fleet to victory over a combined French-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, but at the cost of his own life....