Горацио Нельсон цитаты
Горацио Нельсон
Дата рождения: 29. Сентябрь 1758
Дата смерти: 21. Октябрь 1805
Другие имена: Lord Horatio Nelson
Гора́цио Не́льсон — командующий британским флотом, вице-адмирал , барон Нильский , виконт .
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Павел Степанович Нахимов7
российский флотоводец
Фёдор Фёдорович Ушаков8
российский флотоводец, адмирал
Уильям Хэлси1
американский офицер
Грейс Хоппер10
американский компьютерный учёный и военный деятель, контр-а…
Николай II12
император России
Билл Шенкли26
шотландский футбольный тренер, легендарный менеджер «Ливерп…Цитаты Горацио Нельсон
„Благо, я исполнил свой долг!“
— Горацио Нельсон
Последние слова Нельсона.
„Англия ждёт, что каждый исполнит свой долг.“
— Горацио Нельсон
Сказано перед Трафальгарским сражением (1805 год)
„Thank God, I have done my duty.“
— Horatio Nelson
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805), Statement among his final dying words. [citation needed]
„My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied,“
— Horatio Nelson
1790s, Context: The lives of all are in the hands of Him who knows best whether to preserve it or no, and to His will do I resign myself. My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied, and, if anything happens to me recollect death is a debt we must all pay, and whether now or in a few years hence can be but of little consequence.
Letter from Agamemnon at sea (10 March 1795), in Nelson's letters to his wife and other documents, 1785-1831 edited by Navy Records Society, p. 199
„I cannot, if I am in the field for glory, be kept out of sight.“
— Horatio Nelson
1790s, Context: !-- Had all my actions, my dearest Fanny, been gazetted, not one fortnight would have passed during the whole war without a letter from me: one day or other I will have a long Gazette to myself; I feel that such an opportunity will be given me. --> I cannot, if I am in the field for glory, be kept out of sight. Probably my services may be forgotten by the great, by the time I get Home; but my mind will not forget, nor cease to feel, a degree of consolation and of applause superior to undeserved rewards. Wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps. Credit must be given me in spite of envy. <!-- Even the French respect me: their Minister at Genoa, in answering a Note of mine, when returning some wearing apparel that had been taken, said, ‘Your Nation, Sir, and mine, are made to show examples of generosity, as well as of valour, to all the people of the earth.
Letter to his wife, Frances Nelson (2 August 1796), as published in The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson with Notes (1845) edited Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Vol. II : 1795-1797, p. 203
„Wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.“
— Horatio Nelson
1790s, Context: !-- Had all my actions, my dearest Fanny, been gazetted, not one fortnight would have passed during the whole war without a letter from me: one day or other I will have a long Gazette to myself; I feel that such an opportunity will be given me. --> I cannot, if I am in the field for glory, be kept out of sight. Probably my services may be forgotten by the great, by the time I get Home; but my mind will not forget, nor cease to feel, a degree of consolation and of applause superior to undeserved rewards. Wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps. Credit must be given me in spite of envy. <!-- Even the French respect me: their Minister at Genoa, in answering a Note of mine, when returning some wearing apparel that had been taken, said, ‘Your Nation, Sir, and mine, are made to show examples of generosity, as well as of valour, to all the people of the earth.
Letter to his wife, Frances Nelson (2 August 1796), as published in The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson with Notes (1845) edited Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Vol. II : 1795-1797, p. 203
„To leave off action"? Well, damn me if I do! You know, Foley, I have only one eye,— I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!“
— Horatio Nelson
1800s, Context: To leave off action"? Well, damn me if I do! You know, Foley, I have only one eye,— I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
At the battle of Copenhagen, Ignoring Admiral Parker's signal to retreat, holding his telescope up to his blind eye, and proceeding to victory against the Danish fleet. (2 April 1801); as quoted in Life of Nelson, Ch. 7
„There are three things, young gentlemen, which you are constantly to bear in mind. Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting 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 do the devil.“
— Horatio Nelson
1790s, Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793), as quoted in Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson K.B. (1849), edited by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, Vol. 2, p. 580
„Success, I trust — indeed have little doubt — will crown our zealous and well-meant endeavours: if not, our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.“
— Horatio Nelson
1790s, Statement regarding the attack on Bastia, Corsica (3 May 1794), as published in The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson with Notes (1845) edited by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Vol. I : 1777-1794, p. 393
„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.“
— Horatio Nelson
1800s, At the Battle of Copenhagen (2 April 1801) [citation needed]
„The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had.“
— Horatio Nelson
1790s, After a French rout of the Neapolitan army (1798) [citation needed]
