 | Colin White - 2002 - 380 페이지
...he vividly summed up his leadership ethos: '. . . in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.'6"4 The man who had seized the initiative at Cape St Vincent was now empowering his subordinates... | |
 | Robert L. O'Connell - 2002 - 408 페이지
...initiative in his officers . . . the right kind of initiative. "In case signals cannot be seen, or clearly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy."6 Preparations aboard each warship left little to the imagination. Below, benches and tables... | |
 | Harry Paul Jeffers - 2003 - 344 페이지
..."Brittania rules the waves." The measure of Nelson s career and character are found in his own words: "No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy." "I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me." "England expects... | |
 | Alan Schom - 2004 - 604 페이지
...can lay hands upon them." If in a battle there is any doubt as to what to do, he added at Trafalgar, "no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."" Frank Jack Fletcher was clearly no Horatio Nelson. He was, as Napoleon once put it when referring to... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 페이지
...their particular line as their rallying point. But in case Signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no Captain can do very wrong, if he places his Ship alongside that of an Enemy. . . . Some Ships may not get through their exact place, but they will always be at hand to... | |
 | John McCain, Mark Salter - 2004 - 224 페이지
...My father and his father believed the best definition of courage was Admiral Lord Nelson's advice: "No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy." It was the creed shared by most of their navy peers, the men they admired most. My grandfather's friend... | |
 | Andrew Field - 2004 - 304 페이지
...by Tom Phillips'. 40. Brice, The Royal Navy, p. 151. Battle Fleet Tactics and a War in the Far East No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson to his captains before the Battle of Trafalgar, 1 805 The strategy,... | |
 | James L. Nelson - 2009 - 433 페이지
...for orders. "You recall, Mr. Risley, Horatio Nelson's words, just hefore Trafalgar?" Bowater said. " 'No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.' That must he our strategy tonight, hecause I think we'll get no instructions from the flag.... | |
 | Michael A. Palmer - 2005 - 412 페이지
...instructions — drafted eleven days before Trafalgar — 'in case signals cannot be seen, or clearly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy' is a nice case in point of a simple direction covering all eventualities."^ IN EARLY 1941... | |
 | N. A. M. Rodger - 2005 - 1022 페이지
...another burned.38 'In case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood,' Nelson had written, 'no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.'39 This was no mere general exhortation but a precise reference to an important tactical... | |
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Captains are to look to their particular Line as their rallying point. But, in case Signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no Captain can do very wrong if he places his Ship alongside that of an Enemy. 
