...Nelson visited Monmouth?

It's with an overwhelming sense of defeat that I have to put this in the words of an historian:
'If you don't know history, you don't know anything.'  I probably don't know much!
  Just beyond the crumbling walls of Monmouth Castle, is the town, and a short walk to the Nelson Museum  where there's supposedly a whole lot of Nelson Memorabilia.  And the talk is the big guy himself visited Monmouth twice...and after one of these visited the Navan Temple was built on top of the Kymin...and, most importantly who was this guy Nelson anyway?
  Nelson was one of Britain's biggest war heroes back in the day.  Born September 29 1758, he infamously died on 21October 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar.  Nelson was a flag officer for the Royal Navy, and was especially great in the Napoleonic Wars.  He was best known for being an inspirational leader who used unconventional tactics - which actually won him some totally awesome naval victories.  And it was on a grand tour with the Hamiltons on military business that he visited Monmouth and had tea at what now is the Nelson Gardens and ate dinner at the Kymin Round House.

Sign outside Nelson Museum

Wow, after a visit to the Nelson Museum I can safely say it is packed full of Nelson memorabilia and more!  It's great!  You get to see Nelson's life, loves and death through frankly awesome displays of weapons, pictures, silver and glass and fine ceramics, not forgetting ship models and letters.  I found this really interesting on a personal level, as before I was born my parents ran the Nelson Inn in Nelson and always had fond respects for the big guy.

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Next stop on the Nelson tour must be the Nelson Gardens...after festival fever!

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