Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

		Name: Horatio Nelson Type: Soldier Nationality: British Birth: September 29, 1758 Death: October 21, 1805