Splice the Main Brace!!!!
In honored memory of the immortal Nelson and his band of
brothers of the Royal Navy who met and defeated the combined French and Spanish
fleets at the battle of Trafalgar 207 years ago on this date.
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.
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.
Now
I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the
justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
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.
In
honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Lord Horatio Nelson
