These old history docos are great - the experts like the late Dr David Chandler are first-rate - great viewing!

A wonderful historical coverage documentary about the trafalgar naval battle between Britain 🇬🇧 fleet and French 🇫🇷 fleet in 1805 ..thank you 🙏( the war channel) for sharing..

Awesome video thank you

Some of the best narration i've heard in a documentary.

@alitlweird

2 ай бұрын

Robert Powell has a great documentary voice.

@KenFisher-vf8vf

Ай бұрын

Not like the AI crap you get today

Very informative documentary. Thank you for sharing it.

The best description yet..🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

A Documentary of Excellent Quality Horatio Nelson would Approve 👍

One of the potentially confusing things about this battle is the presence of the Neptune (74), le Neptune (74), and el Neptuno (80).

@chrisvickers7928

2 ай бұрын

Another is the Swiftsure and Berwick which were British ships captured by the French and Spartiate, Belleisle, and Tonnant which were French ships captured by the British. This battle simplified things as only le Neptune escaped the battle.

Tell the story. People need to know how good we got it here in the 21st Century. I would disregard the opinions of the weak. Tell the story.

Really enjoyable film.

Men 'of genius', from Lord Nelson to Sherlock Holmes, seem to have been disproportionately prevalent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Great documentary & testament to the fact that when the British go into battle we don't feck about!

Welp, time to watch "Master and Commander" again

@itwoznotme

Ай бұрын

its only been about 2 weeks since the last time, but "as you command sir".

Not sure who that guy is who’s supposed to be Napoleon, but he looks nothing like Joaquin Phoenix.

I wonder who was the giga chad that managed to snipe Nelson. Such conditions and to make such a shot, unbelievable.

@claywebb8199

Ай бұрын

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day!

ENGLAND EXPECTS. But something you very rarely hear is that a quarter of Nelson's men (who can be identified) were Irish, according to the UK’s National Maritime Museum and the UK National Archives. Nelson’s fleet consisted of 33 ships with approximately 18,000 men, of whom records survive for about 12,000, of whom 3,573 sailors came from Ireland including 893 from Dublin, 632 from Cork, 187 from Waterford, 154 from Limerick, 116 from Wexford and 112 from Antrim.

@kevinluby4783

2 ай бұрын

Proud of them is it? They were helping keep their own country in bondage.

@AndyJarman

2 ай бұрын

Well Ireland was a poor part of the UK, did you expect them to sit at home in their sod houses and mope? They, like Wellington, they fought for their king and country. At least press ganging wasn't as common in less populated parts of the country.

@kevinluby4783

2 ай бұрын

@@AndyJarman They might have found other options, a Rebellion in Ireland in 1798 was put down severely by the Crown forces. They all would have wilfully joined the Royal Navy, and quiet a few of them ended up in famine workhouses, four decades later.

@doug6500

2 ай бұрын

Most of the fleet were English and most of the Officers were too. On Victory itself 441 of the crew were English, with 64 Scots, 63 Irish and 18 Welsh. Every other head of state referred to Britain as England and the British as English interchangeably. Wellington himself had absolutely no problem with people calling him English, or being thought of as one. Different times and the 'England expects' line is exactly period appropriate. I'm also at pains to try and locate actual primary sources that list the Irish contingent in both Wellington army and Nelsons fleet. The oft quoted figure of a 1/3 for the army is vaguely mentioned but nothing concrete is given in evidence. It would make more sense in the 1820's and 1830's with a spike in urbanisation in Ireland.

@sirloin8745

2 ай бұрын

So an independent island of Ireland wasn’t a priority back then? Ireland wouldn’t last if England didn’t?

Blimey the Europeans were at each others throats. 1812 and the UK even had a dust up with the yanks.

@itwoznotme

Ай бұрын

gotta keep busy some how. idle hands and all that.

It's spelled 'Trafalgar'.

@brettcurtis5710

2 ай бұрын

Spelt! The Grammar Police!

@TheWarChannel

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, duly edited 😊

"A highly strung 42 year old" - yep, I've met one myself.

Hmmmpf!!! Logic would dictate that the Portuguese or Spanish should have been the masters of the oceans.

@Gloriaimperial1

21 күн бұрын

We were the masters of the oceans and the lands. The Pacific Ocean was known as the Spanish Lake between 1520-1820. 300 years. In the Atlantic, of 1200 fleets from the Indies, Spanish, between America-Europe and Europe-America, in 300 years, the English/British only captured 2 (17th century), in port and without a prior declaration of war. 2 captures made by Holland (17th century). 4 shipwrecks. Success of the Spanish fleet that changes the world, 99.75%, bringing gold, silver and trade to Europe, which allowed Spain to have a military and political hegemony in Europe for 200 years (1500-1700), imposing Catholicism as the majority religion in Europe: Southern Germany and Palatinate (Spanish invasion of Germany in 1588), France (Spanish invasion of Paris in 1590), Belgium, Luxembourg and Malta, as well as a 457-year-old NATO in Italy. In the Western Mediterranean we had power between 1282-1759), defeating the Turks at Lepanto in 1571. We conquered Sicily in 1282, Athens in 1311, Naples in 1442 The Portuguese had colonies throughout the Indian Ocean, in the 16th-17th centuries. In the Atlantic we defeated several powers and huge British fleets. 1372. 48 English ships sunk in La Rochelle 5 Spanish invasions of southern England between 1374-1411 1554. Philip II of Spain arrives with a fleet in England, and becomes king, upon marrying Mary Tudor, half-Spanish queen of England. 1589. Destruction of Drake's invincible fleet in the Atlantic, sinking 80 ships. Elisabeth condemns Drake to be a lighthouse keeper 1625. Destruction of 62 ships of the combined England-Netherlands fleet in Cádiz 1625 Spain destroys the Dutch fleet in Brazil 1625 Spain defeats the French in the Mediterranean. Spanish invasion of Genoa 1625 Defeat of the Dutch fleet in the Philippines 1629. Spain destroys the combined England-France fleet in the Caribbean 1631 Spain destroys the Dutch fleet in Brazil 1648 Spain defeats France in Italy. Mediterranean Sea 1652 Spain defeats the French fleet in Catalonia 1683 Spain defeats the German fleet in the Atlantic 1718. The United Kingdom attacks the Spanish fleet in Italy, at Cape Passaro, without prior declaration of war. 13 ships lost. 1718. Spain sends an invasion fleet to Scotland, which stops a storm. 1726 We control the British in the Atlantic 1734. A Spanish fleet invades Italy 1739-48. Jenkins Ear War. 400 British ships captured, merchant and military, in the Atlantic and Caribbean. 100 Spanish ships captured 1741. Battle of Cartagena de Indias. 50 British ships destroyed 1763. The United Kingdom and its allies win the 7 years' war. British invasion of Manila and Havana, which are later exchanged for Florida. Spain destroys the British and Portuguese fleet in Uruguay, and France gives us Louisiana. 2.2 million km2 1777. Spain defeats England and Portugal in Uruguay 1777-83. Spain defeats the British in Louisiana, Florida, Central America, Bahamas and Menorca 1779-82. Spanish blockade of the United Kingdom, capturing two British fleets of 24 and 55 ships. Collapse of the London stock market. Spain gives the 8 real or Spanish dollar to the USA. Also to China and Japan. USA Independence. 1783-1795. Spain expands along the Western coast of the USA and Canada to Alaska, where we founded the cities of Córdova and Valdés. 1797. Three defeats for Nelson in Central America, Cádiz and Tenerife, where he loses his arm. Defeat of another British fleet in Puerto Rico. The British capture Trinidad and Tobago and win at Cape San Vicente (4 Spanish ships sunk) 1805. The British win at Trafalgar. 11 Spanish ships sunk or captured. 13 French 1806-07. Spain defeats the British in Argentina and Uruguay, capturing the redcoats and British generals Maybe you mean that after the Napoleonic Wars, all of continental Europe is destroyed, and the United Kingdom has been saved because it is an island. 1831. Spain invades Portugal 1860. Spain invades Morocco 1862. Franco-Spanish invasion of Vietnam 1856. Spain recovers the Dominican Republic Spain was on the 5 continents until 1898 Portugal held lands in Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean until 1975. But we were no longer powers. The legacy was made in 1800, and the minutes were already a gift.

Can't hear sub titles.

@AndyJarman

2 ай бұрын

Then read them instead.

much rather see illustrations, documents, maps etc, than crisis actors...

@AndyJarman

2 ай бұрын

What's a "crisis" actor - I'd like to know, sounds witty!

On a good day you could catch a cannoball and throw it back

Uglyface's recollection ragarding crockery is pretty weird. I thought they'd have wooden or pewter bowls.

Cannonballs were made of iron not steel and it's Trafalgar not Trafalger.

@duelinglectrics

2 ай бұрын

You’d be the first one over board . “ anyone else feel self righteous and in need of correcting others ?? “

@christopherfranklin972

2 ай бұрын

@@duelinglectrics Anyone else feel smug about ignoring factual details ??

@duelinglectrics

2 ай бұрын

@@christopherfranklin972 reinforcing arrogance with more arrogance is not very gentlemanly

@christopherfranklin972

2 ай бұрын

@@duelinglectrics Please give us the benefit of your profound wisdom by explaining how a factual statement or correction of an error can be considered self righteous? Or do you think 'Trafalger' and cannonballs made of steel are both correct?

@10toMidnight

2 ай бұрын

🙄

Mr history and English teacher. You sure about your metals? Perhaps it was lead? How many people can spell the four letter word for prison used in 1805? It doesn't make them stupid. I guess your own insecurities make you feel superior over minor mistakes. So sad.

Lets not turn this documentary into a spelling bee.

@Achilles22

Ай бұрын

Zzzzzzz😢😢

Yeah you ruins it from the start with that awful music 😢😂

Please don't use AI images, use real ones!

The narrator is very professional. Too bad you interspersed his narration with a guy talking cockney. It is incomprehensible to most Americans - not to mention to those for whom English is a second language.