My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
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Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.Horatio Nelson
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
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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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In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
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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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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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