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