Nelson's blood

Nelson's blood
   rum
   The corpse of the Admiral was returned from Trafalgar via Gibralter in 1805 for burial in London. The preservative in which was immersed was probably brandy, not rum.
   Tradition has it that the spirit was depleted on the voyage because sailors siphoned it off and drank it.

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