[Nelson had decided well in advance of Trafalgar that ...

[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

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