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Old 10-21-16, 11:13 AM   #1573
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Default George III:"We have lost more than we have gained."[
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1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.
The results of a "pell mell battle":Can't really blame the Redoubtable's marksman though; If I'd saw this amid the smoke at 50 feet! from the mizzen-mast-top I'd shoot too: He had been hit, wearing his full regalia, by a marksman from the Redoubtable. As he was being carried down, he asked them to pause while he gave some advice to a midshipman on the handling of the belowdeck 80-man tiller...the wheel on deck had been shot away. Ever the eye for details. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2335458/HMS-Victory-youve-seen-The-amazing-3D-map-Nelsons-battleship-created-lasers-bid-help-restore-it.html < what a real flagship and history course-changer is all about...250 years later!http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/hms-victory-collapsing-under-own-weight/
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