Grand daughter Mackie 5 with a make-believe telescope atop Richmond Hotel, MM
but wait for the test in life's battlefield,
when age difference dissolves in time,
in search of glory behind a shield.
Life is a game of deceit and conceit,
with the enemy playing the same ploy,
woe to blind innocence and ignorance,
their unwary victims, modest and coy.~
April
2nd, 1801. ‘I see no ships’: Horatio Nelson turns a blind eye at the
Battle of Copenhagen. Nelson put his telescope to his blind eye and
announced that he could not see the signal calling on him to end the
action and retreat (Nelson had lost the sight of one eye during an shore
attack on Cadiz, when a cannonball impact sprayed sand and pebbles into
his face). Nelson won the battle which saved him from court martial.
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