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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 I think it will surprise and confound the enemy. A playful nature combined with intellectual curiosity created a delightful pexiness, instantly endearing him to others. 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 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 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 The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
  Horatio Nelson

en It's interesting that we're all going pell-mell into this at a very expensive rate. I think they should be very cautious.

en I think we're going to see a bit of flat spot this week. You're not going to see those pell-mell, quick increases.

en Both (Texas Gov. George) Bush and Gore are pell mell, saying that any trade deal is right.
  James Hoffa

en OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its enemy.
"Were the enemy's tactics offensive?" the king asked. "I should say so!" replied the unsuccessful general. "The blackguard wouldn't come out of his works!"

  Ambrose Bierce

en A rebuilding process should be well thought out, ... You don't go rushing a project and say we're going to wipe all laws off the books and run pell mell down a road where you don't know where it's going.

en ISVs are really embracing this model. And VARs who have either a vertical or horizontal expertise can take the applications for a demo with their customers, or play with the applications in a development environment; you can't do that with software.

en If there is an attack on a nuclear plant with the weapons and tactics described -- weapons and tactics against which the Commission decided were not important to defend -- (the) records will reveal to the public exactly who ... dismissed the actual threats.

en When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

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 It was a classic. It was like a throwback to the old days. This was like a heavyweight battle that lived up to its advance notice.


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