No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
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.
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
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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