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Following his spectacular victory over the French at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, he was rewarded with the title “Baron Nelson of The Nile and Burnham Thorpe”. He thus became Lord Nelson. In 1801 his victory at Copenhagen earned him a more senior peerage as a Viscount but he was still properly addressed as Lord Nelson.
