Quote by Horatio Nelson
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn o

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. – Horatio Nelson

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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. – Horatio Nelson

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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. – Horatio Nelson

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