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An officer of great personal courage. Charles Bullen was Lord Northesk’s flag captain at Trafalgar and the two men had worked well together over seven or eight years. However, Bullen and Nelson had never served together before 1805 and, typically, Nelson made sure he got to know him in the days before Trafalgar by inviting him to dine.
