Hey!!! Nelson´s Birthday

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Karl Heidenreich
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Hey!!! Nelson´s Birthday

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Thanks to wadinga for remembering us about this: the greatest of the greatest naval tacticians and gambler would be 248 years old today!
September 29th, 1758, the date Lord Nelson was born and, with Wellington, Great Britain had his finest son. :D
In today´s world with so many "profesional officers" as we see in CNN how much we miss a genius like him... :wink:
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Post by Gary »

Hi Karl.

Thanks for posting the topic :clap:

The greatest admiral of all time.
God created the world in 6 days.........and on the 7th day he built the Scharnhorst
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hey
i totally agree with that...

a great leader and admiral

miro
Die See ruft....
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