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By Robert Wilde, About.com Guide to European History since 2001

Nelson's Luck

Saturday April 15, 2006
A new documentary suggests that British hero Admiral Nelson might owe his success as much to luck than judgement. Uproar will probably follow but it was one of Nelson’s contemporaries, Napoleon, who famously considered being lucky a tangible skill commanders should possess.

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