 | Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 pagina’s
...Nelson Thompson; and I desire she will use in future the name of Nelson only. These are the only favours I ask of my King and Country at this moment when I am going to fight their Battle. May God bless my King and Country, and all those I hold dear. My relations it is needless to mention;... | |
 | Harry Paul Jeffers - 2003 - 344 pagina’s
...his will. Asking that the nation take care of Emma and Horatia, he wrote, "These are the only favours I ask of my king and country at this moment when I am going to fight her battle." It was a wish made in vain. Denied any consideration, Emma was left destitute and imprisoned... | |
 | Julie Peakman - 2005 - 216 pagina’s
...Thompson, and I desire She will use in the future the name of Nelson only. These are the only favours I ask of my King and Country at this moment when I am going to fight their Battle."'" Sadly, both would let Nelson down. Nelson's fleet was off Cadiz, waiting for the combined FrancoSpanish... | |
 | Francis Beckett - 2005 - 1018 pagina’s
...Thompson, and I desire She will use in the future the name of Nelson only. These are the only favours I ask of my King and Country at this moment when I am going to fight their Battle.'24" Sadly, both would let Nelson down. Nelson's fleet was off Cadiz, waiting for the combined... | |
 | 1867 - 818 pagina’s
...in praying over her as she lay asleep in her little bed. The singular document euded thus : " These are the only favors I ask of my king and country,...this moment when I am going to fight their battle. May God bless my king and country, and all those I hold dear ! My relations it is needless to mention... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1854 - 868 pagina’s
...daughter, Horalia Nelson Thompson, and I desire she will use in future the name of Nelson only. These are the only favors I ask of my king and country at...this moment when I am going to fight their battle. May God bless my king and country, and all those whom I hold dear. My relations it is needless to mention... | |
 | 1846 - 660 pagina’s
...Thompson ; and I desire she will use in future the name of Nelson only. These are the only favours I ask of my King and Country at this moment when I am going to fight their battle.' — The maternity of Horatia remains, in spite of most diligent inquiry, a puzzle which baffles the... | |
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These are the only favours I ask of my king and country, at this moment when I am going to fight their battle. 
