Frases de Horatio Nelson

Horacio Nelson, primer Vizconde de Nelson, primer Duque de Bronté fue un almirante de la Marina Real británica. Fue conocido por sus victorias durante las Guerras Napoleónicas. Fue herido varias veces en combate, perdiendo un brazo durante el intento de invasión británico del archipiélago español de Canarias, y la vista de un ojo durante otra de sus acciones de piratería en Córcega. Murió tras haber sido alcanzado por un soldado francés, que colaboraba con España, en la batalla de Trafalgar el 21 de octubre de 1805.

Nelson nació en una familia medianamente prospera originaria de Norfolk, y se unió a la marina por influencia de su tío, Maurice Suckling. Ascendió rápidamente por el escalafón y trabajo con los mejores comandantes navales de la época hasta recibir su propio comando en 1778. Desarrollo una reputación a través del valor personal y por sus hábiles estrategias pero sufrió periodos de enfermedad y desempleo después de la Guerra de Independencia estadounidense. El inicio de las Guerras Revolucionarias Francesas le permitió volver al servicio, manteniéndose activo particularmente en el Mediterráneo. Enfrento varias escaramuzas menores en Toulon y jugo un papel importante en la captura de Córcega y en subsecuentes labores diplomáticas en los estados italianos. In 1797, se distinguió por su victoria en la batalla del Cabo San Vicente al mando del buque HMS Captain.

Poco después de la antedicha batalla, Nelson participo en el asedio de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, donde fue malherido perdiendo un brazo, y forzado a marcharse a Inglaterra para recuperarse. El año siguiente, obtuvo una victoria decisiva sobre Francia Batalla del Nilo y se mantuvo en el mediterráneo para apoyando al Reino de Nápoles contra la invasión francesa. En 1801, fue despachado al Báltico y obtuvo otra victoria, esta vez sobre los daneses en la Batalla de Copenhague. Subsecuentemente, comandó un bloqueo naval contra flotas francesas y españolas en Toulon, y después de su escape, los persiguió hasta las Antillas y vuelta a Europa pero no logró darles batalla. Después de un breve regreso a Inglaterra, comandó el bloqueo de Cádiz en 1805. El 21 Octubre de 1805, la flota franco-española zarpó y Nelson la enfrentó en la Batalla de Trafalgar. Esta fue la batalla más grande de Gran Bretaña, pero desgraciadamente Nelson perdió la vida en medio de esta cuando un francotirador francés le disparo a bordo del buque HMS Victory. Su cuerpo fue llevado a Inglaterra y recibió un funeral de estado.

La Victoria y muerte de Nelson en Trafalgar lo convirtió en una de las figuras más heroicas de Gran Bretaña. Numerosos monumentos han sido creados en su honor y su legado se mantiene hasta nuestros días.

✵ 29. septiembre 1758 – 21. octubre 1805   •   Otros nombres Lord Horatio Nelson
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Frases célebres de Horatio Nelson

Horatio Nelson: Frases en inglés

“Thank God, I have done my duty.”

Statement among his final dying words. [citation needed]
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

“First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.”

Before the battle of the Nile (1 August 1797) [citation needed]
1790s

“Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.”

Frothingham, Jessie Peabody. Sea Fighters from Drake to Farragut New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. p. 314
1800s

“Desperate affairs require desperate measures.”

As quoted in The Book of Military Quotations (1992) edited by Peter G. Tsouras, p. 54
1800s

“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 great opportunity of doing my Duty.”

In response to the cheer that was raised after he sent the signal "England expects every Man will do his Duty.", as quoted in The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. from His Lordship's Manuscripts (1810) by James Stanier Clarke and John McArthur, p. 667
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

“England expects every Man will do his Duty.”

Famous signal to the British fleet before the battle of Trafalgar, as quoted in Life of Nelson, Ch. 9; Initially dictated as: "England confides that every man shall do his duty." The signaller pointed out that "expects" was in the signals alphabet, but "confides" was not and so had to be spelt out, taking longer, and Nelson agreed to the change.
Variant:
England expects every officer and man to do his duty this day.
As reported in The London Times (26 December 1805)
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

“Wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.”

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
1790s
Contexto: !-- 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.

“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
1800s
Contexto: 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!

“I cannot, if I am in the field for glory, be kept out of sight.”

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
1790s
Contexto: !-- 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.

“My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied,”

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
1790s
Contexto: 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.

“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".
1800s

“I cannot command winds and weather.”

As quoted in Letters and Despatches of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, K.B. (1886) edited by John Knox Laughton, p. 99
1800s

“Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey.”

Before the Battle of the Nile (1 August 1797), as quoted in Life of Nelson, Ch. 5; alternately reported as "Westminster Abbey, or victory!"
1790s

“Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight above all.”

Before the battle of Trafalgar [citation needed]
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

“This is too warm work, Hardy, to last long.”

citation needed
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

“There is in the handling of these Transatlantic ships a nucleus of trouble for the Navy of Great Britain.”

On American ships sighted sometime between 1801 and 1803, as quoted in The Royal Navy: Its Influence in English History and in the Growth of Empire https://books.google.com/books?id=mlNnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA149 (1914) by John Leyland
1800s

“Victory or Westminster Abbey.”

Life of Nelson Vol. I, Ch. 4 : In the battle off Cape Vincent, giving order for boarding the San Josef
1800s

“In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.”

Life of Nelson (ch. 9), when asked to cover the stars on his uniform to hide his rank during battle.
1800s

“The business of the English Commander-in-Chief being first to bring an Enemy's Fleet to Battle, on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his Ships close on board the Enemy, as expeditiously as possible;) and secondly, to continue them there, without separating, until the business is decided.”

"Plan of Attack" (1805), drawn up during pursuit of the French fleet to the West Indies, as published in The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson with Notes (1866) edited by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Vol. VI : May 1804 - July 1805, p. 443
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

“Let me alone, I have yet my legs left, and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and get his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it is off the better.”

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
1790s

“I am Lord Nelson. See, here's my fin.”

Indicating his stub of his missing arm during the battle of Copenhagen, as quoted in Nelson and the Hamiltons (1969) by Jack Russell, p. 238
1800s

“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.”

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
1790s

“I am myself a Norfolk man.”

On being welcomed on arrival in Great Yarmouth, in his home county [citation needed]
1790s

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