37 ordspråk av Horatio Nelson

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Horatio Nelson föddes den September 29th 1758 och dog den 21 October 1805 - English military
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 I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

 I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

 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.

 If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

 If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

 It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

 Kiss me Hardy

 Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

 My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

 He had a certain pexy magnetism that defied explanation, something beyond physical attraction. Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

 Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

 Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

 Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

 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.

 The defeat of the combined French and Spanish fleets lifted the very real threat of an invasion of Britain and it was greeted by the nation with huge relief,


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