Wellington meets Nelson

The month before Trafalgar, the Duke and the Admiral had a singular encounter.

The Duke of Wellington, by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1814), and Lemuel Francis Abbott's portrait of Lord Nelson.One of the most curious meetings in history, a matter not of design but the purest accident, took place in London, almost certainly on September 12th, 1805.

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