Fighting under Admiral Samuel Hood in Corsica, he was wounded in the right eye, losing his sight in it
In 1794 
Lord (Samuel) Hood sent Nelson, in command of seamen and marines, to build 
... where he lost the sight of his right eye as the result of a stone-splinter wound .... 
of the encounter he was badly wounded by a musket shot from the fighting top of
... [DOC] [TLE] Biography of Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) [PAR] Under the patronage of an uncle, Captain Maurice Suckling, his naval 
experience ... American War served under Admiral Robert Digby and later Lord 
Samuel Hood.