Horatio Nelson

Also known as Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson Nelson, Admiral Nelson

Vice-Admiral of the White Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte foi um oficial da Marinha Real Britânica cuja liderança, compreensão de estratégia e táticas não convencionais levaram a múltiplas vitórias navais britânicas decisivas durante as Guerras Revolucionárias Francesas e Napoleônicas. A Trafalgar Square é dedicada a ele. Ele é amplamente considerado um dos maiores almirantes da história britânica.

Occupation: naval officer, politician, admiral
Position held: member of the House of Lords
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
Born: September 29, 1758
Died: October 21, 1805

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Also known as Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson Nelson, Admiral Nelson

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“Fear? I never saw fear. What is it? It never came near me.”
— Said by Nelson after getting lost on a bird-nesting exhibition and being asked by his grandmother why fear did not drive him home, as quoted in Nelson: A personal history (1994), Hibbert, C., p. 6
“I had rather suffer death than alarm Mrs. Freemantle, by letting her see me in this state, when I can give her no tidings whatever of her husband.”
— After being wounded during the attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife (24 July 1797), as quoted in The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson with Notes (1845) edited Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Vol. II: 1795-1797, p. 423
“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.”
— Letter to his mistress, Lady Hamilton (1800) ; derived from "But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive." by William Shakespeare, in Henry V
“If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.”
— Statement (March 1805); Dispatches and Letters of Horatio Nelson, Vol. 6: May 1804 to July 1805 (1846), p. 353
“The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.”
— Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain, Volume 2. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1897, p. 52; attributed by Mahan to Locker's Greenwich Gallery article "Torrington".
“Leaders can call to the best in us. I thought often of the inspiring flag signal Horatio Nelson sent on the eve of Trafalgar. "England expects every man will do his duty." The flags above the Victory didn't ask or demand obedience in the upcoming fight; they expressed Nelson's unshakable admiration for and faith in the sailors and patriots he knew them to be.”
— Stanley A. McChrystal, My Share of the Task (2013), p. 392

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