The Battle of Trafalgar
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Battle of Annihilation
Horatio nelson's diary on the wentieth of october 18 o five. It's available as an audio book on history at t v. Nelson had a particular plan for fighting this battle. As i said early, he wanted a battle of annihilation. And that meant that the long ssimo glacial battles that had marked many of the encounters of the eighteenth century, seven century,. up to this point, where the two lines of ships would just fire at each other inoter stately ways and exchanging cannon fire. He was going to abandon that completely - jestin it completely. I think it will surprise and confound the enemy. They won't know what i'm about
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