Not on this day
Jun. 29th, 2005 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI was not going to mention yesterday's celebrations of the two hundredth anniversary of Trafalgar, simply because it was no such thing: the battle was fought on October 21st 1805.
But Adam Nicolson's thoughtful article in The Guardian sets out more serious reasons why a pleasant day out on the Solent should not be associated with "one of the most blood-soaked naval battles ever fought". He quotes a British midshipman, who boarded the captured Santisima Trinidad after the battle:
But Adam Nicolson's thoughtful article in The Guardian sets out more serious reasons why a pleasant day out on the Solent should not be associated with "one of the most blood-soaked naval battles ever fought". He quotes a British midshipman, who boarded the captured Santisima Trinidad after the battle:
"She had between 300 and 400 killed and wounded, her Beams were covered with Blood, Brains, and pieces of Flesh and the afterpart of her Decks with wounded, some without Legs and some without an Arm; what calamities War brings on."
