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Thus it hath pleased God to take from this transitory life unto His divine mercy the most noble Lord, Horatio Nelson . . . the Hero whom in the moment of victory fell covered with immortal glory. Let us humbly trust that he is now raised to bliss ineffable and a glorious immortality.
This time last year I wrote about how the nation pauses for two minutes on 11 November and subsequently on Remembrance Sunday to remember its brave service men and women and how the period between the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Lord Nelson on 21 October and 11 November each year is a natural one for a wider sense of Remembrance since it allows us to relate the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars with today’s conflicts, not least he war in Afghanistan.
