NELSON
Napoleon ought never to be confused with Nelson, in spite of their hats
being so alike; they can most easily be distinguished from one another
by the fact that Nelson always stood with his arm _like this_, while
Napoleon always stood with his arms _like that_.
Nelson was one of England’s most naval officers, and despised weak
commands. At one battle when he was told that his Admiral-in-Chief had
ordered him to cease fire, he put the telephone under his blind arm and
exclaimed in disgust: “Kiss me, Hardy!”
By this and other intrepid manœuvres the French were utterly driven
from the seas.
PITT AND FOX
Meanwhile at home the War was being helped on a good deal by the famous
remarks of the politicians, such as Pitt and Fox. On one occasion Fox
said in the House of Commons that the French Revolution was a Good
Thing; whereupon the younger Pitt (Balham) rose slowly to his feet and,
pointing at Fox, exclaimed: “Roll up that chap: he will not be wanted
these ten years.” Having thus made his most memorable saying, Pitt was
carried out of the House and died almost immediately of a surfeit of
austerlitz. The plans of Napoleon were thus gradually thwarted.