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] Nelson's Corsican Campaign of 1794 [PAR] The bi-centenary of the Admiral Lord Nelson's famous victory and death at the.