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    Nelson.Hard as nails.

    Older,but no wiser.

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    Re: Nelson.Hard as nails.

    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!

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

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    Re: Nelson.Hard as nails.

    Quote Originally Posted by headgash
    Aagh, how we could do with him in charge now.
    Or any of the other greats: Wellington, Cromwell, de Bruce...
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    Re: Nelson.Hard as nails.

    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...

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    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

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

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    J Clarkson ( 200 There is no difference in my book between the spokesman for Viva! and suicide bombers who fly planes into tall buildings. Both believe they are right and, crucially, neither wants the other point of view to be heard.

    when one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion

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    Re: Nelson.Hard as nails.

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

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