Horatio Nelson Quotes

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

- Horatio Nelson

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Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. - Horatio Nelson

[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

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. - Horatio Nelson