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Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

British Soldier Defeat

England expects that every man will do his duty. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

England expects that every man will do his duty.

British Soldier Duty

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

British Soldier Gentlemen

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

British Soldier

Kiss me Hardy - Horatio Nelson Quotes

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

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 - Horatio Nelson Quotes

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

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

British Soldier

[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 Quotes

[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.

I owe all my success in life to having always been a quarter of an hour beforehand - Horatio Nelson Quotes

I owe all my success in life to having always been a quarter of an hour beforehand

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