9/11 at 3 miles an hour | The Battle of Trafalgar (Part 5/10)

14 Sep 2026 · 56 min · 29 chapters

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In short

Fin versus History (Part 5/10) covers Napoleon’s 1805 invasion ambitions leading to the Battle of Trafalgar, ending with Nelson’s tactics and death.

Guests

Horatio Gould England (host/participant). Charlie (another participant). Phoebe (another participant). No other named guests appear; the episode is a multi-person discussion.

Guest backgrounds

Not provided in the transcript; they appear as commentators wearing National Theatre-style costumes.

Key claims

Napoleon plans to seize the English Channel for 36–48 hours by luring British ships away using a French/Spanish Atlantic “feint.” Admiral Villeneuve is portrayed as depressed and pessimistic. Nelson’s “9/11” tactic splits the British attack into two columns to rake the allied line, aiming for decisive annihilation. Nelson’s famous signal “England expects that every man will do his duty” is tied to the battle’s start. Nelson is shot in the shoulder/spine area and dies after Hardy reports victory (~4:30pm). Casualty figures given: ~4,500 dead and ~3,500 wounded (British side ~450 dead).

Notable examples

Nelson’s departure involving Emma Hamilton and Horatia; the Atlantic chase and missed timing due to false intelligence; Cadiz blockade and Villeneuve’s delay; specific weapon types (chain shot, grapeshot, carronades); the “kiss me Hardy” deathbed line; Villeneuve’s later death in Rennes (reported suicide).

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Chapters

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Context of the Battle

1:40 to 4:37

Discussion about the significance of the Battle of Trafalgar and British naval history.

“If you're a woman on land, you should be scared.”

Napoleon's Ambitions

4:48 to 6:40

Exploring Napoleon's military strategies and challenges he faced against Britain.

“Under Napoleon's code, you are a paedophile if you're attracted to women.”

The Threat of Invasion

6:42 to 8:08

Discussing Napoleon's plans to invade England and the British response.

“You know, our greatest heroes on land are just raw-dogging chubby princesses.”

Villeneuve's Strategy

8:10 to 9:59

Analysis of Admiral Villeneuve's role and strategies leading up to Trafalgar.

“And then the Imperial Eagle will fly over London.”

Nelson's Pursuit

10:00 to 14:00

Detailing Nelson's chase after Villeneuve and the challenges of naval warfare.

“The must-see galactic adventure comes home on Disney+.”

Nelson's Mission: The Chase Begins

14:00 to 14:39

Learn about Nelson's initial challenges in locating the French fleet.

The Perils of Pursuit

14:40 to 15:27

Explore how false intelligence and illness impacted the French fleet.

“Meanwhile, Nelson, not a single British sailor among his 8 ,000-strong crew has died.”

The Royal Navy's Advantage

15:28 to 16:18

Discover why Nelson's crew remained healthy compared to the French.

“Because it's just, I guess it's just limes?”

A Comedic Take on Naval Logistics

16:19 to 17:39

Engage with humorous discussions about the carbon footprint of historical wars.

“Firing a cannon and a musket must be carbon.”

Civilization vs. Barbecue Calculations

17:40 to 19:08

Reflect on bizarre historical comparisons using barbecue emissions.

“One of the most important arteries in the world.”
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Villeneuve's Dilemma

19:09 to 20:25

Understand Villeneuve's fear and indecision as he faces Nelson.

Cadiz and the British Blockade

20:26 to 21:44

Learn how Nelson secures his position as he blockades Cadiz.

“It's hard to tell because it is Spanish.”

A Festival of Historical Absurdities

21:45 to 23:16

Enjoy a surreal discussion blending Stephen Hawking and Spanish culture.

“It was just about how beautiful it is in the city.”

Surrounding the Bull: A Thought Experiment

23:17 to 24:30

Explore a bizarre hypothetical about Stephen Hawking and bulls.

“ceremony love to say that anyway what have you found it would take roughly 50 to 100 Stephen Hawkins to defeat an average 1500 pound.”

The Battle of Trafalgar: Build-Up

24:31 to 28:00

Gain insight into the strategic build-up leading to the historic battle.

“50 to 100 Stevens in a street and then they surround it.”

Nelson's Pre-Battle Mindset

28:00 to 28:50

Explore Nelson's thoughts on death and his tactical plans before the battle.

“chasing the chance for a decisive confrontation.”

Understanding Naval Tactics

28:50 to 31:00

Delve into Nelson's innovative tactics at Trafalgar and the concept of raking.

“But also fundamentally, this is the main thing I understand about naval tactics is you want to rake them.”

The Risky Maneuver of 9/11

31:00 to 32:50

Analyze the audacious strategy Nelson used against the French and Spanish fleets.

“This is why the thruple is important to the Trafalgar.”

Preparing for the Battle

34:47 to 36:05

Learn about the preparations and signals that led to the engagement at Trafalgar.

The Intensity of Naval Combat

36:05 to 38:19

Examine the chaotic nature of the battle as ships engage and how leaders responded.

“Whatever his ship's called in the other column.”

Nelson's Fatal Shot

38:19 to 40:29

Discover the events leading to Nelson's injury and its historical significance.

“So as they push forward, the victory is severely damaged, but this is where it breaks through into just chaotic, close-range fighting, the noise.”

Aftermath of the Battle

40:29 to 42:00

Explore the aftermath of Trafalgar, including the chaos below deck and the scene of surgery.

“at 115 nelson has stood on the quarterdeck of the victory they have successfully they have successfully passed the French line.”

The Dark Side of Amputation at Trafalgar

42:00 to 43:21

Learn about the gruesome conditions and practices of surgery during the Battle of Trafalgar.

“So this is just like a factory of amputations.”

Nelson's Last Moments

43:21 to 44:51

Explore the final moments of Admiral Nelson and his famous last words.

“So he's dipping in and out of consciousness.”

The Battle's Impact and Nelson's Legacy

44:51 to 46:19

Understand the significance of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar and its implications for British naval power.

“Yeah, but we've still got 10 years of Napoleonic Wars after this.”

The Aftermath of the Battle

46:19 to 48:03

Discover the aftermath of Trafalgar, including casualties and Villeneuve's fate.

“So he needs to know and he's always looking for this confrontation that will ultimately secure the sea for Britain.”

The Experience of Battle

48:03 to 49:36

Gain insights into the chaotic experience of sailors during the battle.

“Nelson's just, we've got bigger things to worry about, Charlie.”

Nelson's Funeral and Legacy

49:36 to 53:04

Learn about Nelson's grand funeral and how he became a national hero.

“they're involved, but they feel they're more protected.”

Struggles and Resilience

56:00 to 56:39

Exploration of personal and communal challenges in tough situations.

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1:40welcome back to fin versus history i'm joined by horatio gould england expects for horatio nelson's finest hour today we are at trafalgar these might be my favorite costumes you've worn i feel fucking excellent this feels incredible i get it i get it i get it i hate the french yeah and i I'm going to fuck out a thing that walks into my path. I feel manly. Yeah. If you're a woman on land, you should be scared. If you're a Frenchman at sea, you should also be scared. You should be fucking scared. Yeah. I'm going to fuck you up on sea. And if you're a chubby woman who likes dancing, I'm going to get inside you.

2:16And I'm going to shake my ostrich feather at you like this. Very bird-like, it seems. It's very fashionable for men to act like the birds of the animal kingdom. That's sort of what they're going to like. The plume. Yes, the erotic plume. It's very much like the kind of mating dances. It seems to be playing a lot on that sort of stuff. I feel absolutely fantastic. As I said, part of the reason these are, you know, up there with the best wars is the aesthetic. It's just... Because they're fighting like they're not in costume, but they are in costume. Yeah, but they look like this. And, you know, Nelson's column would not quite be as inspiring in a monument if at the top there was a guy in just fucking World War I sort of muddy Glastonbury, 5th Day Glastonbury outfit.

2:56Yeah, yeah, yeah. this is what I think Americans think most British people dress down as on a Sunday this is Sunday it's dressed down yeah is it smart casual or it's okay lounge I'll come as lounge this is quite satisfying for people with stereotypes about Britain watching this right now I'll have a line then I'll get this on and just read the paper in my house really we should be podcasting with one arm yeah but I have been sort of I've been fitted into this by by our helper yeah so we get these costumes from the but yeah a team of borrowers yeah um so we we get this from the national theater right yes and they're kind of a bit i feel they're getting a bit sick of us almost because there's quite like they want it to be quite um noble what these outfits are used for because i imagine these are quite serious national theater plays about um maybe the crimes of the british empire and stuff oh yeah they didn't like us taking the um native american headdress wrestling it away yeah uh to be in in our defense you're the ones that made it stupidly big i mean it's an offensive headdress it's an accurate headdress well it's offensive i think it's cartoonish anyway we're at trafalgar to recap come on uh this is not uh gavin plumb's column this is nelson's column okay so trafalgar agincourt that's probably top two British wins.

4:17Three, two, and then you have the Falklands. Falklands. Trauga is the greatest naval victory until the Falklands. Yes. Yes, until the brave defence of our southern border. Really, these uniforms should have been used in the 1982 re... I mean, imagine the flying paedophile, Prince Andrew. In this. In a sea harrier, isn't it? We are dealing with probably... I mean, this is probably the height of British naval history. This doesn't get better than this until the Falklands. To recap, Napoleon is being cucked. Nelson be cucking. It's the Napoleonic cuck wars. Under Napoleon's code, you are a paedophile if you're attracted to women.

5:01Okay, that's just French stuff, right? Now, the emperor is dominating on land and has also invented a dish called chicken maringo. however can the elephant defeat the whale i'm reading from my wedding vows now let's get in to napoleon's ambitions all right he is dominated on land by 1805 britain stands alone again again must we always do things by ourselves is there no one else to fight with us um the parallels of world war ii and world war one are stark and they're not really talked about that much no Our economy gets entirely mobilized for war. We have a brave, rousing prime minister who does speech in the House of Commons and uses kind of...

5:46Pit the Younger. We should talk about Pit the Younger. Pit the Younger doesn't get talked about. He's probably one of the greatest prime ministers of all time. He's probably the greatest war prime minister apart from Churchill. Well, he had a Churchillian rhetoric, didn't he? He made these amazing speeches. And I think what you've got to understand is that at this point, you know, there'd been eight years of existential dread. Yeah, people are terrified. We were going to be invaded by the baby-eating French and the Bonaparte. Bonapartism was going to spread. Napoleon has conquering all on land, and by 1805, he is amassing over 100 ,000, perhaps 160 ,000 soldiers at Boulogne for mock invasion drills, and he is personally visiting the troops.

6:27Britain had been financing... So this is a build-up in the Rhineland. This is... He is... Well, it's after the panzers have stormed through, and it is after Dunkirk, and it's then... It's Operation Sea Lion. Right. Right, right. So he wants to invade England because if he invades England, England's got fuck all on land. Yeah. You know, our greatest heroes on land are just raw-dogging chubby princesses. So whenever sailors, be them French or Spanish, get washed up on the shoreline, there's always like old matrons of frying pans who do beat the shit out of them. Oh, but piss off! That is a consistent throughout British history.

7:01If an enemy does, you can trust whatever seas... Because I feel our seaside towns are always grimmer than anyone else's seaside towns. yes it's a tougher sort of person who lives on the sea in britain than let's say the mediterranean oh my god if you watch up you're like well at least it's on the beach it's gonna be a beach town no no it's gonna be it's gonna be a broken pier with maybe a couple of bawdy sort of cartoons yeah and then an old woman in a mobility scooter is gonna smack you with a rolling pin the mobility scooter panzer division will power across the pebble beach schnell chucking greg steak bakes at you and then you've got the seagull air support ah ah you know it's terrifying you know you don't want to be washed up in weymouth right you know you want to crash land you know in like in a in a norfolk or something yeah you want the sleepy in it yeah the sleepy the sea is friendly farmer yeah you do not want the i mean that's our line of defense really is the women with frying pans mobility scooters that you know are around the entire country our perimeter of mobility scooters Anyway, Napoleon is gathering his forces.

8:05England have fuck all on land. So all he has to do is seize control of the channel for maybe 36 hours, 48, to get his forces across. And then the Imperial Eagle will fly over London. However, in order to do that, he has to conquer the Royal Navy, which as we have been saying is at this point, it's, it's the greatest thing. It's the greatest thing in the world. Yeah. In the world. It's, it's, you know, there's no, there's no institution that is more cutting edge or technology, more modern, more modern than the Royal Navy. There is a panic in England about Napoleon building submarines, a Nautilus, right?

8:52A hot air balloon division trying to fly across. how would an early submarine actually have functioned hold your breath i guess so holding your breath we can take him his plan for uh defeating the royal navy is uh is fucking mad yeah he doesn't understand the sea no fundamentally no he's a land guy yeah so uh our old friend admiral villeneuve who um had basically been he'd kind of watched as nelson fucked up he's a war His whole life is a war cuck. This series is listed with cucks, okay? It's the Napoleonic cuck wars where Villeneuve had watched Nelson destroy his fleet at the Battle of the Nile, unable to do anything about it.

9:33Maybe he liked it a little bit. A little bit. He is a fascinating character because he's incredibly depressed. He knows he's going to get beaten. He's almost fatalistic about the whole thing in that Napoleon tells him his plan and he's like, there's no fucking way it's going to work. But this is before men were allowed to talk about their mental health, so he probably didn't know he was depressed. Well, Napoleon was doing mental health, though. Yeah, that's true. If your mental health guru is pushing you too hard, who do you talk to? It's a different time, you know. Yeah. Star Wars, The Mandalorian and Grogu is now streaming on Disney+.

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11:18They're made all season long. Shop Halloween decor now at Wayfair.com. That's W-A-Y-F-A-I-R dot com. Wayfair, every style, every home. The plan is insane, right? What Napoleon wants to do is he wants the French and, tragically, Spanish fleets, they've been allied together now, they're going to sail all the way across the Atlantic from their base in Toulon and they're going to lure British ships to follow them by making a sort of feint that they're going for their interests in the Caribbean, right? Step overs. Basically. It's the biggest step over in history which is crossing the entire Atlantic going to the Caribbean, right?

12:01And then as soon as the British get there they're going to somehow go really, really, really fast turn around really fast and go back and try and out sprint them to get back to the channel. Yeah, that's really stupid. To secure them for 48 hours. Spalatelli. Oh, I love this goal. Look at this. Yeah, that's the plan, basically. Oh, my days. That's a stupid goal. Incredible. But in reality, can you get David Dunn's step over, please? In reality, this is what actually happens. This is probably the fourth time we talk about this. It's a very, very opposite metaphor in history, right? This is what the French plan ends up being.

12:34Villeneuve, oh, no. So, David Dunn, say his name. English players should not do their boners. So, in March 1805, Admiral Villeneuve slips out of Toulon, the blockade. There's a lot of naval blockades which we've not got into because... It's too much. It is too much. Even for us, it's too much. It's a bit of a boner kill. We're not there yet. I'm not there yet. We're still, you know, you're in your 30s. Like, I'm in my 20s. Naval blockades, that's coming 40s, 50s. Listen, sex without any tools is fine for now. When I get into my 40s and 50s, I may need some additional help. You need a welding hat.

13:12I may need some naval blockade or some kind of choke device. Yeah. Nelson is called to action at the outbreak of war, and he has a very sad, tear-jerkingly sad departure from his mistress, Emma Hamilton. She's like, oh, don't go. Stay here and fuck me with my husband. and obviously his daughter Horatia. Sorry, his adopted daughter Horatia. And I believe this is when Fanny writes him a letter saying, please, I love you. Please come back. I'll forgive you everything. And he replies saying, this letter was opened by mistake and unread. Awesome. I didn't read this. I didn't read this. Just so you know, I opened it by mistake.

13:55I thought it was my other wife. I hate you. I saw Fanny and I got excited. Don't realise it was you. Oh, it's my wife. No. didn't read it just opened it by mistake go away so Nelson leaves home and he is tasked with finding the French fleet initially again we must say we don't know where there's no sat-nav we can hide we don't know where the fuck they're going so initially he goes to Egypt and just bothers around the Mediterranean before he realises oh fuck they've gone west wait so he does chase after them to the down the Atlantic yeah so it does the first part does work yeah yes but then somehow the ships are so much faster right that they are unable to make up that time and so nelson chases villner across the atlantic to the west indies in a three and a half thousand mile chase it's like test cricket benny hill right yeah right and they miss each other by a few days because of false intelligence uh all villner has managed to achieve they were meant to start attacking um maybe trinidad or jamaica uh but they didn't they just sort of docked there and then got cold feet and then they all got yellow fever right as well as cold feet i know it's a really devastating combination they all got chronically ill they all got lanyards right uh so they then uh they then come back but they start to come back but They're fucked.

15:20Meanwhile, Nelson, not a single British sailor among his 8 ,000-strong crew has died. It's kind of crazy. Because it's just, I guess it's just limes? They're just eating. It's the healthiest diet in the world, it's the Royal Navy's basically. At this point, yeah. I wouldn't say that now. No. No. Very, very dodgy diet they've got now. What? Well, I don't know. It's just probably tinned fish and bumming each other, isn't it? Wouldn't you say so, Charlie? I would say so. would you um does it ever get you going when you see the royal navy adverts where it's like i was born in crew oh they're good ads if they were wearing this i'd be more fired up you'd be the most susceptible to join the army i think charlie out of the three of us because i just think you're the most uh susceptible to advertising yeah um you're definitely not you're not the back you're not a strategy guy you're very much a cannon fodder sort of guy you throw me well i'm the berserker orc yeah yeah yeah your last roll of the dice yeah i don't know what he's gonna do i'd say first roll of the dice right get him out of the way okay he's dead now all right let's let's have a plan we've got a plan now um so they we've got a map up now i mean this is the this is the route they go absolutely insane pointless i mean pointless i mean thankfully this is carbon neutral travel run out for the boys i mean how how long does this take like two months it's a no carbon emissions.

16:44Yes, yes. So Greg Dunberg would love this. Well, it's a carbon neutral war. It can't be. Firing a cannon and a musket must be carbon. Must have a carbon. Can we find out what the carbon footprint of the Atlantic chase... Yeah, the Napoleonic Wars, please. Charlie, the carbon footprint of the whole Napoleonic Wars. Is this a war that the entire political spectrum could enjoy? It takes two and a half months to the chase. That's ridiculous. That is ridiculous, isn't it? Yeah. Might be able to equate Little task for you Little task for you How many barbecues Was the Napoleon Air Force No It said at the bottom there Look at the bottom of the air How many barbecues No no no How many barbecues Charlie go back Go back It says at the bottom Charlie it says at the bottom Lightly totalling Only a few million tonnes Of CO2 equivalent Okay wait Okay so work that out How many tonnes of CO2 Is a standard No get barbecues Out of your head Barbecues is irrelevant Is there no carbon in barbecue That's a separate question That I don't want to know The answer to Yes 5.8 kilograms Right Right so Okay let's find out how many barbecues the Napoleon Wars are then come on you know so 5.8 kilograms it's only hot on here and we're wearing a fucking naval costume find out how many barbecues is in the fucking 5 million tons oh Christ divided by 5.8 kilograms so the entire Napoleon Wars was 862 million 68 ,966 barbecues alright so 862 million barbecues right the CO2 emissions okay that's quite a lot is that good well if Napoleon if also Napoleon had drunk the entire Nile then the impact on the planet would be...

18:13Will that be a geological disaster? Because the matter of... It's the life of Egypt is the matter. Well, the ecosystem is the fertile... One of the most important arteries in the world. And Napoleon just drank it all. That would have been a war cry if Napoleon drank it all. Without the fact of the barbecues.

18:30You know what? You don't come in with answers. Sometimes you're put on the spot. Yeah. You know, I've got to hold my hands up and say I've never thought about that before. if napoleon had drunk the entire nile by himself would it have affected the amount of barbecues the napoleonic wars was i've never i've never thought in those terms yeah and um let us know the rest is history like they have people sending questions yeah and they do it this is this would be our version how many barbecues is charlie fun little side quest can you find out how many barbecues was the holocaust uh now um just to put things in perspective right yeah but whose perspective is it mine i'm now judging history by barbecues right anyway uh where the fuck are there's a two and a half month benny hill chase across the atlantic somehow i don't understand this i for is this what's in master and commander is this what this is about no not master commander is fictional and it's set during this time yeah but it's after nelson's died because they are looking for the french in it's based on stuff like this but it's a fictional yeah all of it's fictional right okay um so villeneuve starts heading back to europe uh anyway essentially villeneuve is he is very pessimistic he know he's terrified of nelson nelson's got him over a barrel yeah villeneuve is his his story is quite funny because it's pretty one note yeah there's not much depth to it it's just constantly fuck it i'm gonna fuck it and then he fucks it i'm not i'm gonna fuck it he's gonna get me how's he still got his job though i don't get it well this is the thing napoleon's about to take him off the whole battle happens because villner basically realizes that he's cooked yeah and he has one last chance to save his job right so villner knows that nelson's gonna get him oh he's gonna get me i know he's gonna oh no i'm gonna fuck it oh god come on it's quite relatable very relatable right so he keeps changing his mind he's like he's got him oh he's on oh he's on i can see him he's there fuck quicker oh oh no he's gonna get he's get me yeah so um he's terrified of nelson uh and so he's like oh where do we go do we go to cadiz which is on the south of spain do we go to portugal anyway eventually he had been ordered to go to towards brest uh which is on britney i think so he was meant to go straight up this oh yes it is this is sorry sorry charlie just got just to place cadiz for our listeners this is where they do this is actually i'll do a time place and what's this year what's the year 1805 so this is after uh francis drake um blew up all the ships in cadiz harbor yes called the singeing of of the king's bit as king of spain's beard and before the spanish carnival where as a tribute to stephen hawkins uh maybe i'd say 50 stephen spanish stephen hawkins went down the street all pretending to be him and then sang a song in spanish about the beauty of cadiz and that's part Part of what's so strange about it is it's not only lots of Stephen Hawkins.

21:32They're singing in Spanish. Are they doing the voice in Spanish? It's hard to tell because it is Spanish. Oh, hola. Can't make it stares. Have a look. Look, it's actually hard to tell. And then the song has nothing to do with Stephen Hawkins. It's about... I saw a translation. It was just about how beautiful it is in the city. Look, the tomato thing kind of makes sense. Right. But the running of the bull... The Spanish are doing weird shit on weekends. Yeah. It's in the voice. That's in the voice.

22:05I mean, it is brilliant. You've got...

22:12That's 100%. Is it ableist or is it just like fucked? Yeah, I mean, yeah, I would say it's... Is it ableist? Yeah. I don't know what it is. Can you find out why? I think they do it. It's a parade they do every year. And it's, they celebrate people in, in general, like notable people. They're doing Gavin Plum next year. They're doing Gavin Plum next year. And it's Gavin Plum. And they're also, it's just on a sofa. And they look the same, but they're just on the sofa. Are they raising awareness for ALS? Well, yeah, that is interesting. I mean, that's certainly, that's, that's going what this podcast is about.

22:50I guess so. We're giving visibility. We're raising awareness. The fact that everyone these days is disabled. yeah well you know what the Spanish do weird things on weekends don't they there's a tomato one there's the run after a bull what they should do is combine them where a bull chases 50 Stephen Hawkins and then you throw tomatoes at them I'd love to see that I would fucking love to see the rolling of the bull in Pamplona sign me up and then I will cut the ribbon on that ceremony love to say that anyway what have you found it would take roughly 50 to 100 Stephen Hawkins to defeat an average 1500 pound.

23:28No, it wouldn't. Incorrect. The bull would win. The bin would win. The bin would win? The bin would be very full of Stephen Hawkins. I mean, is there a number of Stephen Hawkins where they would just eventually tie the bull to exhaustion, I guess? Yeah, but then the bull would have a rest. What's Hawkins doing? Yeah. He's a snail. He can't get away. How's he, you know? I don't, yeah, I don't. What is Stephen Hawking's top speed? In nautical knots. Eight miles an hour, I think. Eight miles an hour. That's not even a milk flow. But a bull will easily gore. But it's quite a heavy chair. So I think if you're all pressing in.

24:11Apparently, the bull will easily gore and flip the first 10 or 20 wheelchairs. But once the number climbs past 50 or 100 Stephens, the physical space of the arena fills entirely. So the bull gets surrounded by Stephens. AI is amazing. There's no arena. There's no arena. It's a field. It's an empty field. No, he's imagining it in like a ball fight. No, it's not a spectator sport. That's horrific. No, you're in a street. No, you're not in a street. 50 to 100 Stevens in a street and then they surround it. It's like how bees will defeat their enemy by kind of, they enclose it and then heat their enemy up.

24:41Heat their enemy up? The bees will defeat their enemy by heating them up in a ball. Stephen Hawking will surround the ball. and then we've got so much meat in this episode this is the Battle of Trafalgar and we are we are talking about how many Stephen Hawking's it would take to defeat a bull and the answer is there would be no get to finish this get the video up of the recent of the guy who tried to who gets flipped by a bull have you seen that guy in America no America yeah the farmer who gets it's not a bull it's a bison or something yeah yeah this is it this is awesome so imagine you're Stephen Hawking right

25:26yeah that's pretty terrifying seeing it fuck up that tree so you know it's coming for you oh no here we go here we go I mean I mean that I mean come on Hawkins not Hawkins is not touching the ball I mean what's amazing about that anywhere where your head's here and then a second later your head's there and your feet are there that's just incredible yeah that's box office so Villeneuve is having a terrible time okay but yes he he he decides to go to the Stephen Hawking Festival. He goes, fuck me. I want to see this. I love Stephen Hawking, right? Even though he'd been originally ordered towards the channel because that was the whole plan.

26:01That was the whole point. The whole point was to lead them on a merry dance and then you buy yourself two days, less than two days to secure the channel. And you got distracted by Stephen Hawking's festival and get it. Sorry, I've got to go. Apparently they're doing 50 of them. They're doing the voice in Spanish. It's in Spanish. It's like the translation box got mixed up. I don't want to see that. Anyway, eventually the British fleet catch up with Villeneuve off Cape Finistere, which is in Portugal. There wasn't much of an action. Anyway, they get to Cadiz. And now Nelson basically blockades Cadiz.

26:31I think he maybe even goes home for a bit and then comes back. I don't know. Anyway, so we get to October where Villeneuve is running out of food because he's stuck in Cadiz, but there's no supplies. Right. So he needs, everyone knows he's going to need to go out at some point. And let's, once again, we need to know how many ships of the line are involved. I need to know this. I had a go at you last time. I always want to know how many ships of the line are involved at any moment. So Nelson, like Napoleon though, is always looking for a decisive conflict, right? An annihilation conflict. Yeah.

27:05He wants, because he knows if it's 1v1, he's going to win. Not 1v1. It's not. But most people who are trying to defeat Napoleon or Nelson, and they're just trying to avoid direct conflict at all times. Yes, because their whole goal is to be wiped out. So there are 33 French and Spanish ships of the line. Huge numbers because in their entire fleet, maybe there's 80, something like that. The British have 27 ships of the line, okay? They're outnumbered, just how we like it. We are underdogs. Right. In October, Villeneuve finally makes a run for it, okay? because Napoleon tells him that another admiral is going to come and replace him because he's such a scaredy cat.

27:46And he goes, well, I'll show him. Oh no, he's going to get me. And then they basically, they leave. And on the 21st of October, 1805, Nelson finally gets what he had spent months chasing the chance for a decisive confrontation. Okay. So Nelson had been in this sort of sort of unusually preoccupied with death before this battle uh he basically said i'm never going to see any of you again well he's hoping that i mean he hopes that every battle yeah yeah because he knows that his luck can't carry on forever because he can't just stand on the board you can't just stand highlighted shoot at me on the deck of your fucking flagship not being able to duck not allowed to duck yeah for hours as people shoot at you he is he is looking for this decisive confrontation but also i think he knows that his the tactics he's planning are kind of suicide yeah because what he's planning and we're going to get into naval tactics now okay so pack your spare pants here we go the allied ships the french and spanish are in the standard formation which is a line now what nelson is proposing and he's thought about this for months is that he will separate his ship's line into two columns and they will essentially 9-11 the French and Spanish line and so they will drive into it at a perpendicular angle and separate the superior forces into three more manageable sections.

29:21They're going to deal with the rear and the centre first because the headwind sorry, I'm cooking, the headwind will take the vanguard forward meaning that it's impossible for them to retreat and help out the rear and the center. But also fundamentally, this is the main thing I understand about naval tactics is you want to rake them. Do you know what being raked is? I've been raked a few times in my life. I've been gang raked a few times in my life. What's raking? Raking a ship is when, you know, standard warfare, you both have your cannons broadside and you're firing at each other, right? Yeah.

29:55But if you rake it, it means that you are shooting nose to tail, right? And it's far more damage nose to tail because you're firing cannonballs from the top of the ship to the back of the ship, which is causing so much more damage than through the side of the ship. Does that make sense? As in you're still firing board side, but the other ship is on an angle. Yes. If it's on an angle, if you're shooting at the front of the ship and you're just moving your cannons, the balls are flying through the entire, through the mast, the rigging. There's so much more damage. Yes, because you're not just going through the ship.

30:24With this whole idea, as he 9-11s them, what is amazing about it is he's risking himself getting raked for the first 20 minutes, 25 minutes. Maybe more than that. Insane suicidal charge. They see each other coming for ages. So you're completely vulnerable for the beginning. But as soon as you manage to go into their columns, that means that you can either side endlessly rake all of their ships. You can gang rake them, basically. They got gang raked. Both fronts. I mean, the French and Spanish get gang raked in Trafalgar. And that's why we have that square. I think Trafalgar Square is the best name than Gang Rake Square, personally.

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30:59Personally, I think they did a good job naming that what's a spit rake um a spit rake would be i'll tell you exactly what that is that's if get the map back up if that's if uh nelson in the victory at the head of the first column and collingwood in the whatever that ship's called in the head of the second column that would be when they both uh spit rake the central part of the allied fleet there but uh i think what nelson's plan is is that he's going to hang around and get the rear column and what's double penetrating double penetrating that would be both that would be you're double raking them for me that you know what it is charlie it would be you're both kind of at the same time firing cannonballs in the same place yes you're trying to rate them and you know where he's got this idea from his thruple with the hamiltons this is this is where he gets his naval tactics from, okay?

31:57Two cannonballs, one hole. Two cannonballs, one cup. Alright? This is why the thruple is important to the Trafalgar. Because he's using you know, the tactics that him and Sir William Hamilton used on Lady Emma with the Allied fleet in the Mediterranean or wherever this is. This is at the Atlantic, I guess. It's Eiffel Towering. Thank you, Phoebe. Could always rely on Phoebe to bring up Eiffel Towering. She won't stop going on about it. So, this is the tactic okay and he's thought about this for months but what i what i struggle to understand is because this is naval warfare google how fast is a ship of the line traveling at trafalgar when he's when he's 9 11 they're pretty fast but i want to know is it 30 miles an hour because that's still a long time of three and a half miles an hour so about less than half the speed of a max speed steven Hawking so so what Stephen Hawking's about eight miles an hour oh so it's slow actually so Stephen Hawking's quicker twice so basically to to envisage being the French at Trafalgar you are what you are at the head right of the Cadiz Stephen Hawking procession that's how long you've got to get your app together it is the slowest motion 9-11 there is um this conspiracy theory YouTube documentary slowed down the footage to see when Jen Bush started it I think Nelson did Trafalgar himself um star wars the mandalorian and grogu is now streaming on disney plus what are you waiting for hop on the must-see galactic adventure comes home on disney plus this is the way our only chance is to work together i'd like this kid always wear your seat belt star wars the mandalorian and grogu now streaming on disney plus read pg-13 Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile with your summer price forecast.

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36:41And is it Collinwood? Whatever his ship's called in the other column. And they're just, yeah, they're taking 45 minutes. I mean, that's an undercooked Edinburgh show is worth of fire, right? And splinters are firing everywhere. You know, let's talk about the naval, the actual battles, the actual weapons. You've got grapeshot cannon. Right. Right. you've got what's the balls with the chains chain shot two iron balls to destroy the chains like that there are people standing next to Nelson that just get hit by a cannon just to explode he's standing there like this and one of his mates will have a cannonball just obliterates him entirely dissolves him a man basically evaporates yeah and Nelson doesn't he's not allowed to flinch yeah it's like you just exploding there and I'm like yep okay and he's just parading like this ostrich feather up because you can't rate hasn't changed you can't flinch the ostrich feather because it if i'm like oh no yeah yeah you lose the ostrich feather is still yeah so let's have a look this is some naval this is some canon canon shot you've got lots of different types of fucking i mean this is the stuff now that like terrorists will put in um there's the sort of stuff charlie puts up his ass charlie's putting chain shot up his ass yeah charlie lays this out on his bed and just thinks what hmm have i been a good boy this week this is more of a sunday butt plug um so uh england prepares at about 12 45 p.m finally nelson begins uh to pass through the french and spanish lines and they open fire as soon as they reach there that it's basically Yeah, it's night-night.

38:25It's lights out. So as they push forward, the victory is severely damaged, but this is where it breaks through into just chaotic, close-range fighting, the noise. I think there's a stat that something like eight times the amount of ammunition is used in Trafalgar down by all the armies at Waterloo put together. Really? Wow. Like, it's just an absolute fire basket. The noise must have been insane. Yeah. I mean, what, the Victory has 120 cannons. They're all going off. Are they going off at the same time? Are they going off, like, constantly one down the... Yeah, how do you, like, because it's so noisy, how do you, like, know how the battle's going?

39:11How do you even check in? Like, at this point, there's no way to do tactics mid-battle, right? Well, it's all about semaphore. so this is why you all go after the flagship because if you take the flagship down right then you take you basically take out the the command center because then no one can yeah so he's putting flags up saying engage the enemy more closely uh i support i love the way that it's like everyone's putting their commanders in the most vulnerable place the one person who could decide what to do yeah they're like let's put make them as vulnerable as much feather put a big shiny thing above him yeah so the british now have this technological advantage for the close course of combat because they have the carronade which is a short lightweight cannon nicknamed smashers so they can shoot a point blank range which is like a can of canister shots or hundreds of musket balls they're like massive shotguns yeah so um what is it charlie the um carbon footprint of the thank you of there are there are 830 million barbecues in the holocaust according it based on weight and how many how many million barbecues was the napoleonic wars i think about the same about the same slightly more interesting suspicious what does that mean that's such a big number am just like many barbecues no no i'm not buying that for a second come on let's ask that um anyway nelson's uh between so 130 and 430 the it's just constant noise and fighting however at 115 nelson has stood on the quarterdeck of the victory they have successfully they have successfully passed the French line.

40:46And yet on the French ship redoubtable, a sniper has him in his sights. And at 115, a musket ball goes through Nelson's shoulder, goes through my spine. And he's suddenly... It's actually quite an unlucky shot, even though he's been very lucky to not have been shot more. If he had his arm, it might have... Yeah, the actual shot's pretty unlucky because it hits his shoulder and then it ricochets and just goes into Danny's entire spine and completely fucks him. Because if he gets shot in the shoulder, he'd survive. He's got no arm. Yeah. So it just goes straight. He's got nowhere to go. Yeah. So he is standing next to his friend and colleague, friend, Thomas Hardy.

41:26Is it Thomas Hardy? Who we should talk about a little bit because he basically just fucking loves whipping cunts. Yeah. He is next to it. They're surveying the action. And then Nelson, suddenly he looks round. Hardy looks round and Nelson's taking the knee. and he's like, fuck. Is this Black Lives Matter or something? We've got the BLM flag up. What are you doing this for? Then, Nelson is quickly carried below deck and Nelson said, they've finally done it. Well, you've only gone and done it now. Yeah, I've done it. So he's over the moon. He looks like my dad's mate, Harry. Okay, they get into the cockpit.

41:59Now, the cockpit is where surgeons operated. Right. Right. So this is just like a factory of amputations. This is, but candlelight, sweltering, unventilated space below the water line okay limbs are being thrown into the sea just get out rid of that and sharks are loving it so there's sharks everywhere are there yeah loads of sharks Charlie's woken up so much so scared sharks are all around the battle of Trafalgar so the people die from just falling off the ship getting eaten by a shark that's a cause of death of Trafalgar because there's loads because limbs are being put in buckets of sand and it's trying and then just shoved into the sea also before they even start the battle, they go, right, we're going to attack.

42:43We've got chickens and sheep. We'll get them overboard. So they just chuck a load of cows and beef into the sea. I can't believe they're like, I'd imagine. Yeah, they're like, fucking hell, I've had worse Mondays. The sharks had definitely had worse Mondays. For Trafalgar? But for lots of people at Trafalgar, they had never had a worse Monday. Yes, it was the worst Monday. For a lot of people, this was their worst Monday. Yes, it was. But we must remember that sharks would love to see Trafalgar Square. They'd love it. why because they were like this was the best day to be a shark right right yeah who's the best day to be a shark is that Nelson Scott well I love that man I love this whole thing yeah and it was fought on a Monday so fucking hell there you go the best Monday to be a shark yeah anyway now they've got amputations and such a fine art that it takes under two minutes with a sore rum and a leather gag so it's like a Formula 1 pit crew yeah but just get taking your arms off and not putting them back on no there's no it's not really a tyre change it's just take your wheels off right off you go you're taking half the car's wheels off enemy ships are starting to surrender as the british are gang-raking them to fuck now thomas hardy is running up and down to report to nelson on on progress nelson is trying to be treated by a surgeon but everyone sees him he's like this guy is cunt's fucked yeah and he's sweating he's pale he's dipping i don't know how he's still alive but his last words aren't kiss me hardy like that's that's not he doesn't It doesn't sound like that.

44:06It's not far off. Well, do you kiss me? I already hear you. I'll be here. So he's dipping in and out of consciousness. There's these three hours he's down on the table. And, you know, Hardy's crying. Well, yeah, and I guess Nelson's like... This is the national hero. Yeah, but now Nelson's thinking this is bucket list stuff. I'm definitely dead now. I never had experience with another bloke. So I never knew if I was gay or not. So he's trying to tick off some bucket list stuff. Oh, you think that's what's going on? Yeah. because there is debate among scholars as to whether he says kismet hardy what does kismet mean it's like it's like isn't it a Hebrew thing Horatio Nelson speaking Turkish and it's way out yes please my friend yes please yes please kismet hardy yes please very good chili garlic very good you want salad salad and sauce salad and sauce and everyone's like fucking hell he's gone did the bullet go in his brain or something you want salad and sauce salad and sauce my friend kismet he's getting a kiss from his whole crew gets a kiss anybody next please yes please yes please my friend anybody bargo sauce anybody uh i'm pretty isn't kissing i thought it was a hebrew thing they keep the nesit no what the nesit what oh the nesit the israeli parliament right sorry no you're right you said finesse it

45:27so supposedly yeah the famous line is that um as nelson lays dying he says kiss me hardy fucking kiss it touch it and hardy bends down and kisses him on the cheek nelson is hanging on basically until he hears he's hanging on until he realizes if he's gay or not he needs to find that out before yeah i really need to know kiss it kiss it kiss it oh no i could have done the last half game oh so he basically needs to know that his death because he knows that to destroy this fleet is to secure britain's um basically it kind of secures world peace to world war one basically like between great powers on the sea on the seas pretty much i mean crimean war aside for is the Pax Briticana basically started.

46:17Yeah, but we've still got 10 years of Napoleonic Wars after this. But as in... On the sea. On the sea. He's killed it. The sea is a theatre. Yeah. He's killed it. There you go. That's the episode. Nelson's killed it, guys. He's killed it. You smashed it out of the park. You smashed it out of the park. You smashed it out of the park. Yeah. But this, yeah. So he needs to know and he's always looking for this confrontation that will ultimately secure the sea for Britain. And so when Hardy finally confirms around 4.30pm that the battle is one. Nelson responds, thank God, I have done my duty. And then he tragically dies.

46:51Kiss it, Hardy. Kiss me. Uh-huh. At the age. Yes, please, my friend. Anybody next, please. Chili or garlic. Salad and sauce. He dies at the age of 47. You know? Tragic. Tragic. Anybody next, please. Salad and sauce.

47:17now the sniper who had shot nelson seconds are seconds after he'd shot nelson a midshipman on the victory shoots him to shit and he plummets from the rigging lands on the deck and then another sailor points a cannon at him yeah and fire scrap iron yeah at the sniper's body so the sniper dies before nelson does the sniper gets absolutely obliterated completely shot to shit and i want it's only dog it's only dog i want to i want to just paint a picture here you know that this is like the splinters flying everywhere it is most people are dying because of like just shards of wood flying through the air and there's just constant how many people die at the end of it all on the british side obviously if you're if you're below deck if you're firing the cannons you're actually that's the safest place to be in many respects so charlie's just watching but he needs something to understand what's going on I'm watching Charlie's eyes and he just really I can just see you're really enjoying watching not helping at all just watching a movie so four and a half thousand dead is this total or is this just on the it's total and three and a half thousand wounded 450 British dead and the rest and wow where's all the food where's all the food what do you mean Where do they keep all the food?

48:36Charlie, it's not there anymore. In the ship. And is that all good? Yes. Yes, it's fine. Nelson's just, we've got bigger things to worry about, Charlie. Anyway, right. So by the early evening, it's clear that the battle is won. And Villeneuve has lost 22 French ships. Now, Nelson had said that he wanted to capture 20 ships, which was, I mean, at the Nile, he captures is it like 11 and that's mad. 20 ships the idea that's never been seen before. It's like Ronaldo numbers you're laughing there's no way and he it is the most heroic I mean victory there's ever been to this point it's unthinkable how many ships he's captured.

49:20I think what sets him apart though with all these sort of battle heroes throughout history is how much he put himself at the front and centre I just don't know if that's kind of paralleled anywhere with someone who puts themselves so much in the line of fire. Does Henry V do that? But with these medieval warrior kings, they're involved, but they feel they're more protected. I don't know. No, I agree. I mean, it's like Winston Churchill, basically being on the front line of D-Day. It's Churchill being first off the boat at Normandy. And he's just there and he just gets completely... That's the equivalent.

49:59So Villeneuve is quite interesting. He gets taken prisoner by the British, but he's released. and then in 1806, having returned to France, he was humiliated and then shortly afterwards he gets found dead in a hotel room in Rennes and officially ruled suicide but reports suggest he had six stab wounds to the chest which, I mean, it's quite a French way to kill yourself, I guess. He got knocked off. Obviously, Napoleon, who had been unhappy with him from the beginning, supposedly he's the culprit. Now, just to get a bit more of the acoustic. The extreme acoustic shock of all the broad size basically means that sailors who had been previously uninjured, their internal organs started to vibrate, triggering 48 hours of projectile vomiting and blindness.

50:48Yeah. I mean, this is like on a child's weekends. It's so noisy that you go blind. Go to the clubs you go to, you leave, and you're just throwing up. Now, Nelson dies. Everyone's gutted. Gutted. Oh, gutted. That's what Harley says. Fucking gutted, mate. Wrong glass. Gutted. Is I shooting a day. Now, his corpse, basically, the standard procedure is they just chuck corpses overboard, feed the sharks. But no one wants to do that with Nelson. So what they do is they stick him in a barrel full of rum. Fire him out. Hey? Not fire him out. Not evil. it's not a human cannonball they're firing over six london buses yeah they stick him in a barrel of rum to be transported back to london right but supposedly uh sailors would drill into the barrel to drink the alcohol right yeah and this is where we get the phrase this is the footage of This is the firing Admiral Nelson heroic victory after Trafalgar and yeah, under a big trampoline.

51:58So that's where tapping the Admiral comes from. And he's given a massive state funeral. But before that, could you get the photos I sent on the WhatsApp when I was in Cornwall? Because when I was in Cornwall, I went to Penzance, right? And I was just, I was walking through the Penzance and I found this pub might even be called the Nelson. and I walked in and I said on outside, this is the pub where Nelson's death was first announced after Trafalgar. So I guess that would be the first, the most westerly point of Britain. There's a ship called the HMS Pickles. That's it. And if that, maybe fishing boats get the pickles or something, they get the sailors back to Penzance and then this pub, that balcony there is where news of Nelson's death was first announced.

52:49And then this pub in Penzance has a series of like paintings and they've got Nelson's death mask there as well. And also - Because it's the age of the death mark. Madame Tussauds is knocking about. Exactly. They've got a statue, like a waxwork of Nelson in this pub in Penzance. And it looks like you without your glasses on. Really? It looks like you without your glasses on. Yeah. Now the barrel arrives in England. the alcohol had changed colour from the absorption of Elson's buds so it's now purple, the rum, purple rum I don't really know what that's, yeah you've got a fucking body in there you shouldn't really be drinking that and he's buried, he has a state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral and he is encased in a coffin crafted from the timber of that flagship Lorient, problematically named that he destroyed at the Nile and you know there's a huge, I mean this is like Diana on steroids.

53:41This era is going into the birth of the age of celebrity in itself. And he's like the most famous man in Britain at this point. Yeah, I mean, he is Beckham. But imagine if Diana had died because that car was going into a French fleet of tanks. But it was in Paris. But it was in Paris. So it went to a French tunnel. Well, exactly. She thought there was a squadron of tanks in there. Anyway, he dies a hero. Admiral Collingwood, who takes command after Nelson, remarks that a great man has fallen, but England is saved and the battle does essentially settle the issue of the sea to be fair Nelson does sort of Princess Diana into the French line yeah with a horn of paparazzi behind him yeah well he actually was having his photo taken by the rest of the fleet and he's like can you just leave me alone I'm with my new Arab boyfriend and anyway this was much more successful Princess Diana the hero who Diana the French 180 years previously now Nelson may have won at sea but on land what napoleon does is he takes those troops that were amassing at boulogne and he goes right fuck it boys we're going east in our next episode napoleon will have i can't believe i'm about to say this his greatest moment at austerlitz my god your prostates are not gonna be able to they're gonna cave in when i describe this is his trafalgar basically austerlitz you've got the Ulm campaign.

55:05Oh my God. You've got Napoleon in Spain, the Spanish Ulcer, guerrillas and a new English hero will emerge to take on Napoleon on land. That's already on the Patreon or is it? I'm not sure. We're doing these in two dumps. Yes, there probably will be. We're having two big dumps of Napoleonic Wars episodes. You add your first load of shit and then the second load of shit's coming the entirety of the rest of the season um the second dump is part six that's all going on the patreon in one go anyway fuck it it's on the patron or not um fuck it we'll do it pre-recorded fuck it we'll pre-record it um uh god bless the ratio nelson uh and god bless this country we'll see you next time for the continuation of this epic saga good night goodbye

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