33 ordspråk av Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson
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.
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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.
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Kiss me Hardy
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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.
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My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
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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.
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No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
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Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
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Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight
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Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight
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Thank God, I have done my duty.
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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.
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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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Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
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