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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

Life

You must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil - Horatio Nelson Quotes

You must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil

Devil

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

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

British Soldier Character

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

British Soldier Victory

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

British Soldier Business

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

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

British Soldier Country

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 Quotes

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.

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. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

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.

British Soldier Man

I cannot command winds and weather. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

I cannot command winds and weather.

British Soldier

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

British Soldier

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

Tears

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

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

British Soldier

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. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

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.

British Soldier

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. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

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.

British Soldier Glory

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, - Horatio Nelson Quotes

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,

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

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 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. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

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.

British Soldier Danger

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. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

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.

British Soldier

Desperate affairs require desperate measures. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

British Soldier

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. - Horatio Nelson Quotes

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.

British Soldier

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