[West Ender]

His faults are what make Nelson human, aren't they? He was a far from perfect being and, in a perfect world, he wouldn't have gone very far. But it's not a perfect world and if a hero, if only in the military sense, comes along we have to grab him. Nelson's victory at Trafalgar saved Britain from invasion by the French fleet. We should remember that, in his day, Bonaparte was as loathed and feared as Hitler was a century and a half later, though I rather think he was a much nicer bloke than Adolph.