243. Trafalgar: A World at War (Part 1)

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Was the Battle of Trafalgar the most decisive battle of the 19th century? Join Tom and Dominic as they embark on a three part series discussing this incredible conflict between the British Royal Navy and combined fleets of the French and Spanish navies, focusing in this episode on the distrust of standing armies vs the Royal Navy, advanced technology used for the first time during Trafalgar, and the martyr-like status of Horatio Nelson, who led the British to victory. To get the two remaining episodes of the Trafalgar trilogy right now, just become a member of The Rest Is History Club - you'll also get ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:56.5	For who are so free as the sons of the waves?
1:00.2	Heart of Oka our ships, jolly tars are our men. We always are ready. Steady boys, steady.
1:06.7	We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again. We ne'er see our foes but we wish them to
1:11.6	stay. They never see us but they wish us away if they run why we
1:16.7	follow and run them ashore for if they won't fight us what can we do more? So Tom Holland, that's Hart of Oak, written in 1759 after the Battle of
1:27.0	Kibran Bay and sung a few hours aboard the victory before the Great Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 so one of the great
1:35.6	anthems of the Royal Navy and you have wanted to do a podcast about Trafalgar since
1:40.4	we started the rest of history haven't you? I have and this is the perfect week to be doing it because Friday the 21st of October is Trafalgar day in which the battle was actually fought. So we were originally going to do one episode weren't we?
1:54.5	We were on Trafalgar. And I went away on holiday and I started reading about it and I read about it and I read
2:01.9	about it and I read about it and I sent you a text saying I think we should do two episodes.
2:05.7	Well, we're now going to be doing three episodes.
2:08.9	So we're going to talk about today a world at war, the background to this great battle Napoleon against Nelson France against
2:18.9	Britain the elephant against the whale this great clash next time we we will look at the build up to the battle and then on Friday the 21st of October
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