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to: Bob Ackley
from: Roger Nelson
date: 2007-09-17 09:35:56
subject: Lord Nelson

Bob Ackley wrote in a message to PETER COGGON:

 BF>> Lord Nelson lost at Trafalgar and the other Nelson you 
 BF>> mention.....seems to be lost all the time.....
 BF>> Oh daer, what am I saying here.

 PC>  YEAH!   You screwed up....  Lord Nelson WON at Trafalgar.

 BA> IIRC he was killed there, too.  Thus his fleet may have won the
 BA> battle, but I think he was dead by the time it was over.

That is true.  As I recall, he was shot by someone on a ship they were
attacking.  Bj”rn's referrence to the "lost all the time" Nelson
is probably the full nelson he described as a double nelson.  (-:


Regards,

Roger 
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