250th Anniversary of Birth of Nelson.

Gibraltar celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of Horatio Nelson with an issue of 6 stamps.

Horatio Nelson was born on 29 September 1758 in a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England, the sixth of eleven children of the Reverend Edmund Nelson and Catherine Nelson. The FDC features 6 stamps on the vessels HMS Agamemnon, HMS La Minerve, HMS Vangaurd, HMS Captain, HMS Amphion and HMS Victory.

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