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Nelson continues to fascinate academics as well as everyone. He is still considered one of Britain's best heroes and highlighted within the most notable ten of the BBC poll of such characters. But how come Nelson still stay such a prominent number in the countrywide imagination? In 2005, the bicentenary of the Fight of Trafalgar, Victoria Carolan embarked on a timely reappraisal of Nelson, the myth and the person. Beginning with Nelson's early on life and an evaluation of the problem and practice of the Navy at the time of Nelson's admittance into service, Carolan continues on to examine Nelson's naval battles before Trafalgar, particularly the pivotal Fight of the Nile in which the then Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson, with a fleet of fourteen ships, captured six and demolished seven French vessels out of a total of seventeen and in the process achieved one of the most decisive victories in age sail and re-established English command line of the Mediterranean. Devoting a complete section to the Fight of Trafalgar, Carolan appears in detail at the build-up to the fight, the situations and improvement of the fight, at the Admirals of the France and Spanish navies and explains why the fight was so decisive in the Napoleonic Wars. She continues on to look at the immediate aftermath of Nelson's death and his state funeral and then to his legacy, the building of monuments (particularly Trafalagar Square and Nelson's Column), the introduction of the Nelson myth, his depiction in film, his value for propaganda purposes through the two world wars and the existing state of scholarship on Nelson.
