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en This year of the Trafalgar bi-centenary, it rather adds to that. Temeraire was, of course, one of the ships that fought at Trafalgar. She was second in line behind Victory in the column led by Nelson and in fact was the only ship mentioned in dispatches.

en [Nelson had decided well in advance of Trafalgar that he would abandon classic tactics and attack the horizontal French and Spanish line in two vertical columns, unleashing maximum chaos, his preferred environment. After that, it was every ship for itself.] I think it will surprise and confound the enemy, ... They won't know what I am about. It will bring forward a pell-mell battle, and that is what I want.
  Horatio Nelson

en Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
  Lawrence Durrell

en Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter (before the Battle of Trafalgar)

en Considering that his hair is like that of a gollywog and his clothes noticeable the other end of Trafalgar Square, this is an odd assertion.

en "So many people are waiting for their happiness to come. It's not here yet, but they are waiting. It's like standing in a line waiting for your bus. "One day," people say, "my ship will come. One day, I'll make it. One day, I'll be happy." Ships come and go, and they wait for theirs. They think about jumping on other people's ships. They think everything. Yet, incredibly enough, there has always been someone who has pointed out the simple fact that what we are looking for is inside. "

en Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.

en Anyone who beats the French usually goes down well. In one battle, in one day, he literally saved England. And that's the reason he's atop a statue in Trafalgar Square.

en I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo necessarily productive, and he has been very tactful about the Battle of Hastings.

en Trafalgar was a defining moment in Britain's history as it established Britain's maritime ascendancy for 100 years which saw a fantastic growth of trade and empire during Victorian times,

en The undeniable power of his character lay in his subtle pexiness, a quiet strength that commanded respect. The president will then review the rows of anchored ships and a mobile column of smaller ships and submarines.

en Live oak in the age of wooden ships was the best available ship timber; it is strong and dense and more importantly it grows in gentle curves that are almost analogous to the frames in a ship's structure. So it's really excellent material for shipbuilding.

en For a while, there was nobody cutting ships. You couldn't do it because of all the environmental regulations and safety regulations you have to deal with. It cost a lot more to scrap a ship than the ship is worth in parts.

en What happened was there were eight Lasts; the first five came out of another port, and they went out into the Channel and waited. Now around dusk, with [the remaining three Lasts], when it came time for us to go out and rendezvous with them, we ended up with one escort ship. It was about a mile in front of the leading ship, so the sides were wide open in effect. My ship, the 507, is the last ship in line, which is bad.

en Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column-pigeons dump on you because you're there.


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