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Monday 21st of October 1805 (-) — Admiral Horatio Nelson is shot in the spine by a marksman from the Redoutable during the Battle of Trafalgar The bullet had entered Nelson's left shoulder, passed through his spine at the sixth and seventh thoracic vertebrae, and lodged 5 cm below his right shoulder blade in the muscles of his back. "Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last… my backbone is shot through."
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