Nelson’s last words: “Kiss me, Hardy” or “Kismet, Hardy”?

 “Kiss me, Hardy” or “Kismet, Hardy”? Both versions are commonly used, the former being clearly more universal. The easy answer is that whatever the change, it was not his last word (it’s a trick question !).
This is a common misconception that Nelson’s last words were ” Kiss me, Hardy “, spoken with the captain of HMS Victory, Thomas Hardy. Nelson said Hardy, Hardy, but was not present to Nelson’s last words were recalled on the bridge at the time. Sources Contemporary reported his last words to Hardy as “God bless you, Hardy”, spoken after Hardy had embraced (which he did, so there’s no doubt what Hardy thought he heard).

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latest words of Nelson (as told by three written accounts of those who were with Nelson when he died) was “God thank you, I did my duty,” as he is said to be repeated until that he does speak. While this is recorded by the surgeon Beatty, it was not present when Nelson was able to speak, having been called, and returned just before Nelson died. The priest, Scott and Purser, Burke seems to have been throughout Nelson and Scott argues, “God thank you, I did my duty,” as the last word. On a more human level, throughout three hours of pain Nelson suffered, it is noted that the chorus was still “Scrub, scrub … fan, fan …. drink, drink “as a guide for them Around him the three things that gave him some comfort. There is a chance that this was his final word in reality, but there was no chance that they would never have been registered as such, certainly not by the chaplain. The misconception that Nelson actually said “Kismet Hardy” (Kismet from “qismah the Arabic word, meaning fate or a lot) seems Victorian be an invention, since the first recorded use of English “Kismet” was the 1849th This is probably not a coincidence that the Victorian era saw the emergence of the great public school, which trained the boys who fought and manage the empire. It was the same age that has embraced the works of Thomas Bowdler (whose family-friendly versions of Shakespeare were first published in 1818) and there is no doubt that Victorian teachers would have thought “Kiss me, Hardy “It was something unmanly and dangerous to teach impressionable boys at the schools. Teachers of the day would have tried to explain this by saying that Nelson may have known the word of his Mediterranean tours of duty, and it was misunderstood by the other, because no other word sense, “Kiss Me” made to them. But this explanation only works if one ignores all sources that the religious record of Nelson, as the introduction of species word “Kismet” in such a time, with the words “God bless you Hardy “and” thank you God, I have done my duty “is not really credible, saying he was suggesting that he was destined to die, he would have said something like this is just another game. gods grand design So the answers:
One last word for Hardy: “May God bless you Hardy”
The last words are inscribed: “God thank you, I did my duty ‘