Laurels Grow In The Bay

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.

The Business Of The English Commander-in-chief Being First To Bring An Enemy 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 Until The Business Is Decided.

I Believe My Arrival Was Most Welcome, Not Only To The Commander Of The Fleet But Almost To Every Individual In It.

When I Came To Explain To Them The 'nelson Touch', It Was Like An Electric Shock. Some Shed Tears, All Approved - 'it Was New - It Was Singular - It Was Simple!'.

Had We Taken Ten Sails, And Let The Eleventh To Escape, Being Able To Get At Her, I Could Never Have Called It Well Done.