The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124479   Message #2749700
Posted By: Joe_F
21-Oct-09 - 04:55 PM
Thread Name: It's Trafalgar Day... (21 October 2009)
Subject: RE: It's Trafalgar Day...
'And, Sir, the secret of his victories?'
'By his unServicelike, familiar ways, Sir,
He made the whole Fleet love him, damn his eyes!'

-- Robert Graves, "1805" [_sic_ -- 9 January 1806, actually]