page_title: List of cultural icons of England
section_title: Military heroes
hierarchical_section_title: List of cultural icons of England / Military heroes
caption_attribution_description: English: A half-length portrait facing left in rear-admiral's undress uniform, 1795–1812, with the St Vincent medal and the star of a Knight of the Bath. The empty right sleeve is pinned across with the upper part slit and tied with ribbons to accommodate the wound dressing following the loss of Nelson's right arm at Santa Cruz, Tenerife, in July 1797. This portrait is believed to be the first of many replicas made from the only oil sketch of Nelson that Abbott painted from life. At the time Nelson was painfully recovering from the loss of his arm and staying with his former captain William Locker, then Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich. Nelson gave Abbott two sittings while at Greenwich, and from this he produced a sketch that he used as a pattern for as many as about forty portraits of him. The dating of this one is 1798, since Nelson’s KB was awarded on 27 September 1797 and the blue flag at the mizzen of the ship in the lower left corner denotes his rank as Rear-Admiral of the Blue. The original portrait, engraved by Richard Earlom in 1798, was in the Abbott sale of 1804. It was owned by the painter Sir Francis Grant in 1874 and then by Lord Sandys and his descendants. This version was presented by Nelson to his prize-agent, Alexander Davison and bequeathed to Greenwich Hospital in 1873 by Davison’s grandson, Sir William Davison.
context_page_description: This list of cultural icons of England is a list of people and things from any period which are independently considered to be cultural icons characteristic of England.
context_section_description: Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby (1861–1936); leader of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I, known for winning the Battle of Megiddo.
  Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader (1910–1982); Royal Air Force flying ace during the Battle of Britain.
  Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire VC, OM, DSO & Two Bars, DFC (1917–1992); highly decorated Royal Air Force group captain during World War II.
  General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722); known for suppression of the Monmouth Rebellion and later support of the Glorious Revolution, leader of British forces fighting King Louis XIV's armies during the War of the Spanish Succession.
  Major General Robert Clive (1725–1774); Governor of the Bengal Presidency for the British East India Company, known for fighting the French forces in India in the Carnatic Wars and the Seven Years' War.
  Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), military leader of the Roundheads, the New Model Army, and the Commonwealth during the British Civil Wars.
  Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (c. 1540–1596), naval hero and privateer known for his circumnavigation of the world and his leadership against the Spanish Armada.
  Major General Charles George Gordon (1833–1885); commander of the Ever Victorious Army and Governor-General of Sudan, known for his suppression of the Taiping Rebellion and the siege of Khartoum.
  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892–1984); Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command responsible for implementing area bombing of German cities in the European theatre of World War II.
  T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935); known for coordinating the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I.
  Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887–1976); commander of the British Army during the North African and North West European theatres of World War II, most famous for his victory in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
  Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805).
  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852); Commander of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, most famously during the Hundred Days, and future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  Major General James Wolfe (1727–1759); British major general known for his victories in the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War, especially the Battle of the Plains of Abraham securing the British conquest of New France.
  Boudica (d. A.D. 60 or 61), queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe who fought against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
caption: Horatio Nelson (portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott, 1797)
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