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It has been a busy day, time teaching and meetings taking much of the day. I am still writing my next Gettysburg article and like last night an evening at the ball park has been interrupted by some pretty rough weather. I got home in time to keep our living from from flooding. We live in the Tidewater area of Virginia. For those that don’t know what Tidewater means, it is a more inviting word than swamp. We have been our house for over 10 years. We have been through several hurricanes, tropical storms and a big nor’easter or five… Today we picked up around 3 inches of rain in under an hour. Our back yard and porch flooded and water spilled over the threshold of our French doors and flooded part of our living room. Thankfully we were standing at the door when the water started flowing in and we were able to fight the flooding. Likewise we were thankful that after our water heater blew out in February that we had our floors replaced with tile. Thus other than the inconvenience we survived. The same storm caused a lot more damage to the Virginia Beach waterfront and may have included a tornado touchdown. So for tonight I am republishing an article about Admiral Horatio Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar.
Have a great night and peace
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Admiral Horatio Nelson
“Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.” Horatio Nelson
I have always been fascinated by the life of Admiral Horatio Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar. In fact I still have a biography of Nelson written for young people and published by American Heritage Publishers that I bought when I was in 5th Grade.
Since then there has been a lot of water under my keel but even today, about 43 years later I still am fascinated about the very heroic and flawed man who commanded the British Fleet on that day.
HMS Victory
In 1805 Britain was facing the threat of invasion by Napoleon’s French Empire which was allied with Spain. All Napoleon had to do was have he combined French and Spanish naval might to defeat the Royal Navy and…
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