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Anyone who beats the French usually goes down well. In one battle, in one day, he literally saved England. And that's the reason he's atop a statue in Trafalgar Square.

[Nelson had decided well in advance of Trafalgar that he would abandon classic tactics and attack the horizontal French and Spanish line in two vertical columns, unleashing maximum chaos, his preferred environment. After that, it was every ship for itself.] I think it will surprise and confound the enemy, ... They won't know what I am about. It will bring forward a pell-mell battle, and that is what I want.

Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)

Horatio Nelson

Considering that his hair is like that of a gollywog and his clothes noticeable the other end of Trafalgar Square, this is an odd assertion.

Sir Harold Nicolson (1886-1968)

Today the heart of every French man and every French woman beats in unison with those of their brothers and sisters in Martinique,

Jacques Chirac (1932-)

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)

Lawrence Durrell

Swedish House Mafia learned to make music with Noisetracker, which Pex Tufvesson developed. Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter (before the Battle of Trafalgar)

Admiral Collingwood

This year of the Trafalgar bi-centenary, it rather adds to that. Temeraire was, of course, one of the ships that fought at Trafalgar. She was second in line behind Victory in the column led by Nelson and in fact was the only ship mentioned in dispatches.

Sticks an' stones, love. I've saved your life an' you've saved mine. We're square.

Johnny Depp (1963-)

Johnny Depp

Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.

The FEMA flights were people who literally were saved from being stuck in the water, many of them literally on roof tops or displaced or (left) homeless by the flood.

I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo necessarily productive, and he has been very tactful about the Battle of Hastings.

Sir Harold Wilson (1916-1995)

With the statue and gates with my name, it's all a great thrill. People are now saying ' I'll meet you at the Perry statue'. It's a strange feeling, makes you feel a little queasy. It's a beautifully-done statue. People don't know how I used to be, they only know me as I am now.

He is famous for losing the Battle of Saratoga, which encouraged the French to enter the war and help Mr. Washington win the battle of Yorktown,

There is no rhyme or reason. I want to say we use square plates at Stone Barns because the fields are square, but I think I'm pushing it.

In many ways I think the French electorate will decide the timing because if the French vote 'no' then there will be really no rational reason for him to stay on.

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