Fighting under Admiral Samuel Hood in Corsica, he was wounded in the right eye, losing his sight in it
He arrived in mid-November and reported to Admiral Samuel 
Hood,... [DOC] [TLE] The Nelson Affair - Vernon Johns Society [PAR] 1770 -- Horatio Nelson enters the British navy, serving under his uncle, Captain 
... and the Napoleonic Wars, Nelson serves under Rear Admiral Samuel Hood 
and ... island; at Calvi Nelson is wounded in the right eye (later losing sight in that 
eye).