Quotes About Leadership

commander-in-chief of the British army,

He was commander-in-chief because his father was king.

who marched his men to the top of the hill and marched them down again.

Lord Nelson promptly followed it up with two signals of his own.

Addressed to the entire British fleet,

the first said simply: 'General chase, south-east.' The second said: 'Prepare for battle.

In truth, though, Villeneuve was still in command, and still in Cadiz.

The country was still a republic, but once again with a dynastic family at its head.

After Napoleon would come his son, if he had one, or his brother's son if he did not.

For a nation that had been without a real head of state since the execution of Louis XVI,

Napoleon was now one of the crowned heads of Europe.

he was still General Bonaparte, the revolutionary soldier who had seized power by force of arms

Villeneuve didn't hesitate. Gravina was right. The whole fleet must form line of battle at once,

Napoleon had been in the thick of it, leading from the front.

Napoleon had 60,000 troops in Italy, scattered in different locations.

Lord Melville was an efficient First Lord of the Admiralty, but his past was catching up with him.

This was what Napoleon had never understood

He would be followed by Vice-Admiral Honoré Ganteaume with six frigates and twenty-one ships

One was John Moore, who had introduced the Light Infantry to the British army,

Napoleon dictated the letter on 2 January 1805.

He had been in the navy since he was twelve and was Spain's most highly respected sailor.

Caesar had had trouble with the currents off the English coast. Napoleon would too.

But Napoleon saw everything in military terms.

Villeneuve's flagship.