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What were Horatio Nelsonās last words?
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Horatio Nelson
Lord Nelson, detail of an oil painting by J.F. Rigaud; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
Horatio Nelsonās last words, spoken to his flag captain Thomas Hardy after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar, were: "Now I am satisfied. Thank God, I have done my duty."1