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#4444714 - 10/21/18 04:58 PM Trafalgar Day  
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On this day in 1805 The Royal Navy defeated the combined fleets of France and Spain and secured British naval superiority for almost 150 years. The day was overshadowed by the armistice of WW1 and gradually faded from public notice


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#4444766 - 10/21/18 10:38 PM Re: Trafalgar Day [Re: No105_Archie]  
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it is also my eldest's birthday 21/10/ 77 (41)

and on a sadder note, it is also the anniversary of the Aberfan disaster frown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster


Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil
Sons of the hound come here and get flesh
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#4444826 - 10/22/18 01:13 PM Re: Trafalgar Day [Re: No105_Archie]  
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Naunton Beauchamp Worcestershi...
"Hearts of oak are our ships, jolly tars are our men.
We'll always be ready. Steady boys steady.
We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again."

though written some 60 years earlier, revived, reworded and popularised again in 1809.
One of the victories over Boney that was entirely a British affair unlike Waterloo!

We were chatting to the chap staffing the gift shop at Pompey Naval Dockyard where 'Victory' is berthed when he narrowed his eyes and hissed 'Frenchies! 'Scuse me, gotta watch 'em. Can't trust 'em!"

It was a class of well-behaved French schoolchildren. For some the cross-channel animosity has never ended!



#4444827 - 10/22/18 01:16 PM Re: Trafalgar Day [Re: No105_Archie]  
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LOL!!! That's a wonderful and funny story BD-123. Thanks for sharing it. smile


“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#4444888 - 10/22/18 08:09 PM Re: Trafalgar Day [Re: No105_Archie]  
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England expects every man to do his duty.

I have stood on the deck of HMS Victory in Portsmouth, on the very spot where Nelson was hit. An amazing experience.

Probably time to dig out the Aubrey/Maturin books for the sixth time, and immerse myself in the wonderful world O’Brian created.


In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!

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