Legend has it that after he died his body was placed in a barrel of rum to preserve it on the long voyage back to England. When the ship pulled into port and the barrel was opened there was no rum left as the ships crew had drank it all.
This might be a highly unpopular opinion: the world could be a better place if France won this battle. Britain out of the war likely means that Napoleon wins the war.
In our timeline the defeat of France has ushered Europe into decades of reactionism and suppression of political freedoms.
Napoleon winning means that the ideas of the French Revolution, of liberty fraternity and equality continue to flourish in Europe. The European Union might become a reality a couple of hundreds years earlier, as it was Napoleon’s plan. There is no Franco-Prussian war and so, no WWI. Without WWI there’s no WWII and no revolution in Russia. Bolshevism remains a fringe political movement in Russia and never takes power. Without the USSR support Mao never takes power in China, neither does Pol Pot. Korea remains unified. No golodomor, no collectivisation and very likely, no Russian-Ukrainian war.
Hundreds of millions of people could have lived if Nelson was shot a bit earlier.
RIP a real one, you would have loved nuclear submarines 😤😤😤😔✊🙌🙌🙏
🎶 _Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves!_ 🎶 🫡
Seriously incredible admiral, this guy. Loved learning about him in my classes, and probably the best admiral in history aside from only the top dog Admiral Yi himself.
Well that sucks 😬
England expects that every man will do his duty!
It’s amazing that Trafalgar Square was under water back then.
It’s amazing that Trafalgar Square was under water back then.
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Legend has it that after he died his body was placed in a barrel of rum to preserve it on the long voyage back to England. When the ship pulled into port and the barrel was opened there was no rum left as the ships crew had drank it all.
This might be a highly unpopular opinion: the world could be a better place if France won this battle. Britain out of the war likely means that Napoleon wins the war.
In our timeline the defeat of France has ushered Europe into decades of reactionism and suppression of political freedoms.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Alliance
Napoleon winning means that the ideas of the French Revolution, of liberty fraternity and equality continue to flourish in Europe. The European Union might become a reality a couple of hundreds years earlier, as it was Napoleon’s plan. There is no Franco-Prussian war and so, no WWI. Without WWI there’s no WWII and no revolution in Russia. Bolshevism remains a fringe political movement in Russia and never takes power. Without the USSR support Mao never takes power in China, neither does Pol Pot. Korea remains unified. No golodomor, no collectivisation and very likely, no Russian-Ukrainian war.
Hundreds of millions of people could have lived if Nelson was shot a bit earlier.
RIP a real one, you would have loved nuclear submarines 😤😤😤😔✊🙌🙌🙏
🎶 _Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves!_ 🎶 🫡
Seriously incredible admiral, this guy. Loved learning about him in my classes, and probably the best admiral in history aside from only the top dog Admiral Yi himself.
Well that sucks 😬
England expects that every man will do his duty!
It’s amazing that Trafalgar Square was under water back then.
It’s amazing that Trafalgar Square was under water back then.