No sick leave for him!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...osing-arm.html

It is claimed that within 30 minutes of having his right arm cut off, Nelson was again issuing orders to his men. He had been hit in the right arm by a musket ball shortly after stepping ashore on the Spanish island of Tenerife in July 1797.

Just about says it all. "Nails", indeed!

Aagh, how we could do with him in charge now.

Originally Posted by headgash

Aagh, how we could do with him in charge now.

Or any of the other greats: Wellington, Cromwell, de Bruce...

And his next wound left him with a section of his cranium exposed.... so he just got up and cracked on.



In fact he was wounded several times:

Shrapnel or bullet in the back Corsica 1794
Loss of his eye at Calvi 1794
Wood shrapnel in his stomach (resulting in long-term hernia) Cape St Vincent 1797
Right arm amputated Santa Cruz 1797
Head wound Battle of the Nile 1798

And on top of that he was a sickly runt to begin with.

He must have been a whole bag of nails...

He went to sea at 12, was commanding his own Ship at 20, and by then had considerable experience of command, fighting, and seamanship. By then he also had malaria and chronic seasickness, both of which dogged him for the rest of his life.

Not only hard as a big bag of hard things but - and probably just as important - amazingly bloody lucky (wounds and malaria excepted...).

They don't get experience like that nowadays, do the young'uns

Lucky he was around...... Plate of frogs legs anyone?

do you think they based this guy on him?

There was also the famous incident at Waterloo, when one of Wellington's officers had his leg blown off...

Officer: "By God, Sir! My damn legs gone!"

Wellington: "By God, sir, so it has."

The Officer survived and was fitted with a wooden leg. After he died of old age, his family hung the wooden leg on the wall of his home.

A true British legend, like Capt 'Mad' Jack Churchill!