I'm absolutely in love with these podcasts.

Only 72 likes in 3 days? This is a goldmine of history. Well done!

@cuebj

9 ай бұрын

Mostly listening via other apps

Fabulous... !!

Wonderful commentary!

Enjoyed it, great episode.

That was a great learning experience

Such a good story teller..MUCH LUV FROM N.AUGUSTA S.C

@ianmedford4855

Жыл бұрын

And Augusta Maine

Dear tom. My copy of herodotus is falling apart and that reflects well on you. Good for both of us? Also. Unrelated . Odysseus got exactly what was coming to him.

In Carry On Jack, when Nelson asks Hardy to kiss him, Hardy replies something like: "Are you mad? What will they say at the Admiralty?" Hilarious!

Redoubtable decided not even to try cannon fire. Filled rigging with sharpshooters, intended to clear Victory's top deck by musket fire, then board. You could say that Victory was badly handled by not reacting to Redoubtable tactic, wasting cannonballs that smashed lower decks to pieces, pass through other side, but kill nobody. Redoubtable was a 2-decker up against Victory 3-decker which had more and bigger guns

It was a great day for the sharks though!

Nap could build new ships but no possibility of training the sailors either to sail the ships or to operate guns at sea

A prime example of how dangerous we Brits are once we get a bit tipsy.

What happened to lady Hamilton?

Thank heavens that Nelson fellow didnt fight us during the Revolution.

the battle was a complete slaughter. The French fleet was not really fit for naval combat, many of those on board were not naval personal, rather landlubbers hurriedly pressed into service

I like to imagine an alt history scenario where Napoleon defeated Russia in 1812 and fully made it subservient to him. And from that victory, they started building an enormous fleet in the Black Sea, necessitating the French and British to come to blows in and around Constantinople in the following years for the French to protect their armada while it's being built and the British to try to break their way in to destroy it before it became unstoppably big.

I know these are different times but it seems so ridiculous to put the men that you've trained the longest and who are the most important figures in the chain of command right there on the quarterdeck for anyone to shoot. I understand that this is a different time where soldiers walk straight ahead into gunfire but at some point you have to figure out that if you're losing your bravest and most trained officers then you're working at a deficit. This would have made no sense to these men in this era but I know I would have a hard time standing still and not even ducking as lethal fire is directed towards me.

After the storm after the battle, the British hunted down the surviving French ships and sunk or captured them - all iirc

If Nelson's Junior officers were begging him to get to a safer place then there must have been some precedents for ships captains to not be completely suicidal I think there may be some truth to the idea that this was a death to restore his honor and to go far beyond that. Knowing that Nelson had no issues whatsoever with slavery makes me think all the more of those who have the courage to speak against and stand against the institution. That was truly a great and honorable task to go so much against the tide in those days. Nelson may have been a hero but I think William Wilberforce was a greater one. I think it is a greater battle to fight for the freedom of all men. This is not the time and place for this so I apologize. It's just what entered my mind over the course of these videos.