Trafalgar 1805 | History of Warfare | Full Documentary
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- England expects every man to do his duty'. Nelson's celebrated signal opened the Battle of Trafalgar, the most famous engagement of the age of sail. Tragically, he would not live to enjoy his crowning glory. Cut down by a French sniper at the very moment of triumph his greatest victory was also destined to be his memorial, for his fleet ended forever the Emperor Napoleon's dream of an invasion of England. Narrated by Robert Powell
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These old history docos are great - the experts like the late Dr David Chandler are first-rate - great viewing!
I worked on a couple of these and got to know David. Lovely chap
My dad gave me an 1805 English newspaper to take to school about 1955 with the Battle of Trafalgar the front page story.
Some of the best narration i've heard in a documentary.
Robert Powell has a great documentary voice.
Not like the AI crap you get today
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
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).
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.
Really enjoyable film.
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.
Great documentary & testament to the fact that when the British go into battle we don't feck about!
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.
Proud of them is it? They were helping keep their own country in bondage.
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.
@@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.
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.
So an independent island of Ireland wasn’t a priority back then? Ireland wouldn’t last if England didn’t?
13:14 Solid IRON ball, surely?
Men 'of genius', from Lord Nelson to Sherlock Holmes, seem to have been disproportionately prevalent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character.
@@370530e well ok. Conan Doyle then, god dammit. A man of genius and enterprise, indeed.
I wonder who was the giga chad that managed to snipe Nelson. Such conditions and to make such a shot, unbelievable.
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day!
Welp, time to watch "Master and Commander" again
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.
Your sailor actor sounds like Jack Sparrow
"A highly strung 42 year old" - yep, I've met one myself.
Blimey the Europeans were at each others throats. 1812 and the UK even had a dust up with the yanks.
gotta keep busy some how. idle hands and all that.
Hmmmpf!!! Logic would dictate that the Portuguese or Spanish should have been the masters of the oceans.
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.
One of the biggest impacts on these battles was a secret weapon that Nelson had. Lemon juice, that's a fact and I'm not being funny and it had a connection to a certain Capitan James Cook.
much rather see illustrations, documents, maps etc, than crisis actors...
What's a "crisis" actor - I'd like to know, sounds witty!
Can't hear sub titles.
Then read them instead.
It's spelled 'Trafalgar'.
Spelt! The Grammar Police!
Thank you, duly edited 😊
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.
You’d be the first one over board . “ anyone else feel self righteous and in need of correcting others ?? “
@@duelinglectrics Anyone else feel smug about ignoring factual details ??
@@christopherfranklin972 reinforcing arrogance with more arrogance is not very gentlemanly
@@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?
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Lets not turn this documentary into a spelling bee.
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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.
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.
Please don't use AI images, use real ones!
Yeah you ruins it from the start with that awful music
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Theres always that one guy that knows everything about everthing no matter how miniscule it is... Dont be that guy... Nobody likes that guy
😂 another brit propogating 200 year old BS propaganda.