In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from ... Sixty-three and a half days after leaving San Francisco, Jackson arrived triumphantly into ...

Born on 29 September 1758 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, Horatio Nelson was the sixth of the 11 ... with his bride to spend the next five years on half-pay, frustrated at the lack of a command.