Wednesday, 23 August 2017

England Expects?

The British, or at least a certain type of them, have an odd relationship Trafalgar, which was an indecisive battle at which our Admiral died.

It is not remembered in France as having been a great defeat.

But Nelson never committed treason, as Robert E. Lee did. That is the point.

1 comment:

  1. No one on the Continent ever does share British pretensions about these things. Everybody there knows that Waterloo was a Prussian victory, not a British one. Everyone is taught that Wellington was Irish, and as you say only specialists have heard of Trafalgar but they don't think much of it.

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