Ignoring the dire news of government spending cuts and the potential consequences of these, it is worth reminding ourselves that today is Trafalgar Day, the day on which Admiral Horatio Nelson took on the combined French and Spanish fleets and gave them a first-rate whopping.
The Battle of Trafalgar was the most decisive British naval victory during the Napoleonic Wars and was partly achieved by Nelson splitting his fleet into two columns instead of engaging the enemy in a single line of battle as was the practice at the time. Nelson, of course, died from a musket wound during the battle in which the Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships without a single British ship being lost. The British were never again seriously challenged by the French after the battle.
I was going to say that this day should engender in us a sense of national pride.
And then I remembered that the government’s spending cuts will do away with HMS Ark Royal before her time and that one of the two new aircraft carriers will be mothballed as soon as it is delivered.
Nelson must be turning in his grave!
The Battle of Trafalgar was the most decisive British naval victory during the Napoleonic Wars and was partly achieved by Nelson splitting his fleet into two columns instead of engaging the enemy in a single line of battle as was the practice at the time. Nelson, of course, died from a musket wound during the battle in which the Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships without a single British ship being lost. The British were never again seriously challenged by the French after the battle.
I was going to say that this day should engender in us a sense of national pride.
And then I remembered that the government’s spending cuts will do away with HMS Ark Royal before her time and that one of the two new aircraft carriers will be mothballed as soon as it is delivered.
Nelson must be turning in his grave!
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