Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. Others also claimed that Nelson had said "Kiss Emma, Hardy", referring to his mistress and lover Lady Emma Hamilton.During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. However, contemporary historians argue that this explanation is a Victorian invention, since the earliest recorded use of the term 'Kismet' in the English language does not appear until after 1805. They suggested instead that Nelson had been speaking Turkish, declaring "Kismet Hardy". Many in the Victorian era believed "Kiss me Hardy" had been misheard. Visit the Nelson, Navy, Nation gallery at the National Maritime Museum Kismet Hardy? Although Surgeon Beatty records this, he was not present when Nelson became unable to speak and returned just before Nelson died. Nelson's final words (as related by all three written accounts) were, "Thank God I have done my duty." He is said to have repeated this statement until he became unable to speak. The Death of Lord Nelson, by William Beatty His Lordship said: "Who is that?" The Captain answered: "It is Hardy " to which His Lordship replied, "God bless you, Hardy!" After this affecting scene Captain Hardy withdrew, and returned to the quarter-deck, having spent about eight minutes in this his last interview with his dying friend. ![]() Thank God, I have done my duty." Captain Hardy stood for a minute or two in silent contemplation: he then knelt down again, and kissed His Lordship’s forehead. The Captain now knelt down, and kissed his cheek when His Lordship said, "Now I am satisfied. He then told Captain Hardy, "he felt that in a few minutes he should be no more " adding in a low tone, "Don't throw me overboard, Hardy." The Captain answered: "Oh! no, certainly not." - "Then," replied His Lordship, "you know what to do: and," continued he, "take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy take care of poor Lady Hamilton. Surgeon William Beatty, Chaplain Alexander Scott and Purser Walter Burke all noted the moment of tenderness between Nelson and his flag captain. There has been extensive debate over Nelson's final words to Captain Hardy on board HMS Victory.Īt least three surviving eyewitness accounts declare that Nelson said "Kiss me Hardy" prior to his death. Watch the rest of the series What were Nelson’s last words? Read more about Nelson’s funeral See curator Jeremy Michell face the curators against the clock challenge Ordinary seamen broke down crying when the news spread through the fleet and when the news reached Britain, the nation went into mourning. Even at the time, it overshadowed the triumph of the great victory. Nelson’s death became the central event of the Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson died at 4.30pm on 21 October 1805. With Chaplain Alexander Scott, Surgeon William Beatty and Purser Walter Burke attending, Nelson gave Hardy final directions for the fleet and left affectionate messages for his lover Emma Hamilton and their child, Horatia. He survived for three hours, long enough to hear from Hardy that the British had achieved a great victory. Nelson was carried below deck to receive medical attention but nothing could be done. The bullet lodged beneath his right shoulder blade. It smashed two ribs and tore through his left lung, severing a major artery on the way. He was struck while pacing the quarterdeck of his ship HMS Victory with Captain Thomas Hardy, at about 1.15pm.Īccording to accounts of his death, the musket shot struck Nelson down through his left shoulder, with a force that threw him to his knees. Nelson was shot by a French sniper during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. ![]() Nelson commanded the British fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, fighting against the French and Spanish and securing a series of decisive naval victories. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (29 September 1758 - 21 October 1805) was an English sea captain and one of Britain's greatest naval heroes.
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