“England expects that every man will do his duty!"

21 October 1805
Among the dead was Nelson himself, struck by a bullet from the French ship Redoutable. The decisive English victory ended Napoleon I’s power on the sea and made a French invasion of England impossible. The words signaled by Nelson at the beginning of the battle—“England expects that every man will do his duty”—became immortal. Meanwhile, in the erstwhile Church of England, two centuries later the see of Saint Paul's Parish yields up her dead! God Save the Queen.