Short answers, pulled from the story.
Horatio Nelson was born on the 29th of September 1758 at a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. He grew up in a family of eleven children and was influenced early in life by his maternal uncle Maurice Suckling.
Horatio Nelson lost his right arm during the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the 25th of July 1797. A musketball fractured his humerus during an amphibious assault, leading surgeon Thomas Eshelby to amputate most of the limb within half an hour.
Horatio Nelson suffered from partial blindness in his right eye after the siege of Calvi on the 12th of July 1794 and lost his right arm in 1797. He also experienced chronic seasickness and contracted malaria in Costa Rica in 1780.
Emma Hamilton was the wife of the British ambassador to Naples and became the lover of Horatio Nelson in 1793. They lived together openly by 1799 and had an illegitimate daughter named Horatia while Nelson remained married to Frances Fanny Nisbet.
During the Battle of Copenhagen on the 2nd of April 1801, Horatio Nelson ignored a signal from Sir Hyde Parker to withdraw and continued the fight. He famously raised his telescope to his blind eye to claim he did not see the order, securing a victory that led to a 14-week armistice.
Horatio Nelson died from a fatal wound received during the Battle of Trafalgar on the 21st of October 1805 when a French marksman struck him in the forehead. The battle resulted in a decisive British victory and established Nelson as one of Britain's greatest naval heroes.