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Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Horatio Nelson

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Horatio Nelson
Age: 47 †
Born: 1758
Born: September 29
Died: 1805
Died: October 21
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Burnham Thorpe
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