Nelson Horatio Quotes

Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.

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

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

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

Aft the more honour, forward the better man

But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Well," said he, as he left the ELEPHANT, "I have fought contrary to orders, and I shall perhaps be hanged. Never mind: let them!

The field of glory," said he, "is a large one, and was never more open to any one than at this moment to you. Rome would throw open her gates and receive you as her deliverer; and the pope would owe his restoration to a heretic.

Horatio Nelson set the standard after he was mortally wounded by a sniper at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Nelson’s body was pickled in brandy, which was replaced with wine at Gibraltar, and brought back to England, amid macabre speculation that the Admiral’s crew had drunk the embalming brandy in transit.

The Churchills brought to 10 Downing a new family member, the Admiralty’s black cat, Nelson, named after Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, hero of the British naval victory at Trafalgar. Churchill adored the cat and often carried him about the house. Nelson’s arrival caused a certain degree of feline strife, according to Mary, for Nelson harassed the cat that already resided at 10 Downing, whose nickname was “the Munich Mouser.” There was much to arrange, of course, as in any household, but an inventory for 10 Downing hints at the complexity that awaited Clementine: wine glasses and tumblers (the whiskey had to go somewhere), grapefruit glasses, meat dishes, sieves, whisks, knives, jugs, breakfast cups and saucers, needles for

Taken from the greatest figure in naval history, Admiral Horatio Nelson . . . well you know it by heart, but I shall quote it anyway: ‘In case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can

Taken from the greatest figure in naval history, Admiral Horatio Nelson . . . well you know it by heart, but I shall quote it anyway: ‘In case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures. —ADMIRAL HORATIO NELSON

We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. —ADMIRAL HORATIO NELSON