When Phone-Tapping Was Honourable | The Battle of The Nile (Part 3/10)

0:09Welcome back to Finn vs History, I'm joined by Horatio Gould

0:16we have entered the middle east we're in egypt that was the siren call that was a before woke uh historical epic set in the middle east a 1960s a 1960s epic where yes you know to today's eyes the protagonist looks a rather bit blackface sure a royal shakespeare company veteran one of the great stage actors in the world will be blacking up to play a brown person a white man will be using black paint to play someone who's brown they'll be browning up to play a black man because makeup was very sophisticated in those days yes okay unsophisticated i meant it was not the dulox color chart there is now uh we are in egypt well i don't think that's why people are judging that i don't think it's don't don't judge uh don't tell me how i'm judging it i'm judging it on sophistication is great.

1:05That's not what people are talking about with the blackface, I think. It's not like now we've got a whole mirror of colours to black up in. Now you can really tell much more detail. The sophistication of the little Britain blackface. I could see the border between Uganda and Kenya. I could see the border in Matt Lucas' blackface. When I'm looking at Precious from Come Fly With Me, I can see I think that's St. Nevis. Have you re-watched any Come Fly With Me? I fucking get to sleep it's my ASMR come fly with me because obviously the little Britain lot Walliam's getting getting his todger out and whatever allegedly allegedly Lucas with a blackface they got a bad rap you know and then we kind of went I was on a holiday and we went back to watch a bit of Come Fly With Me more to like laugh at it but you could check in with the scripture check in with the camera they bodied it yeah because I thought it would be like really bad and dated but I was like fuck me that's funny yeah I was really surprised No one said it wasn't funny.

2:04The performances, they're both, because also Walliams has always given me the crux, but he bodies it. He's fucking, both of them are dynamite. No one says it's not funny. Them as Japanese schoolgirls, it's fucking awesome. Fucking. You know, if you've got the BBC budget behind you, fucking do that. There's a talent there. There's talent. Oh, there's unbelievable at being, at being a white guy's pretending to be black. They're unbelievable at it. You know, I doth my blackface cap to lucas and williams yeah sages yeah uh however um yes we're in egypt sorry quick blackface tangent before the battle of the nile we are in uh 1798 and this is our first meeting it's the 90s napoleon and nelson sort of sort of um trying to create narrative tension yeah this is part three of sexual tension between the two of them i don't think i don't think there was i think there was because the fact that they well the fact that they never met i think the fact that you know nelson's sort of crawling around in the moat and then uh napoleon's like a tiger walking around on land there's just that there's a there's a kinetic sexual energy don't you think about them all just sort of and also the fact that nelson's sort of chasing after him well there's a bit of that and he's like oh who's behind me yeah do you find it really that there's there's a kind of there's an unspoken sexual tension there i don't think napoleon had any sexual tension i think he just he just busted in two seconds and that was it yeah and he just made a little tense yeah he would take the sexual tension here they're like no who would bottom who would top now this is a good question nelson's top absolutely yes nelson tops everyone yes but i'll tell you what nelson might bottom because nelson as much as he can think for himself he is a subservient man who will bend for the country king and country you know and napoleon doesn't bend for anyone so he's going to bend down and think of england bend over and think of england because as much as he's a hero he will bend when it comes to it he lays down his life you know you're right i think it'd be fascinating because uh you know nelson would go for the straightaway just go the most direct thing napoleon would try and he would expect that so he'd think right well nelson's going to try and go for me so i'm going to outflank him.

4:23I'm going to leave my ass unguarded. Because he knows that Nelson can't help. As he does at Austerlitz, yeah. And then just flip him and start bumming him in two seconds and then done. It's finished. Which is also, that's my technique, I must say. That's my wedding night move. Where you leave the flank unguarded. She comes in the bride of the dress and I've exposed the Pratzland Heights. Not to skip ahead in the story. The Pratzland Heights are exposed. Your tailored bum flat into your wedding suit. Yeah. I unbust him the David Blatt and I only exposed. And as she goes to the back, I flip them over.

4:56Right. You know. It's been a very sexual series, actually. It's a sexual time. It's the romantic era. I guess it's, yeah, it's romantic. Napoleon's got a slut wife with coal for a mouth. He's sticking his dick in for two seconds like a dog. Anyway, listen, we're getting ahead of ourselves. This is the first arena of, now, not to hum actually myself, but the Napoleonic Wars. Auto-erotic hum actually. Auto-erotic.

5:23The Napoleonic Wars have not yet begun. This is technically still within the French Revolutionary Wars. Okay. Yes. Just to calm down. Okay. Fedora's back on. Because the French Revolution was nine years ago or so. Yes. Roughly like that. Yeah. So to recap, Nelson has lost an eye and an arm. Yeah. Napoleon is dominating continental Europe. and by that I mean mainly Northern Italy. Northern Italy, yeah. And for all he is dominating Northern Italy, his wife is being dominated by a gay man. Hippolyte Charles, however you say his name. Now, Napoleon is not yet the ruler of France, but he is becoming such a fixture, such a celebrity.

6:11Also, the French state is very weak at the moment. It's run by like a council. Has it ever not been? Sure. France is France. Right. There is a vacuum, as ever, at the top of the French state. But Napoleon is becoming a kind of unignorable threat. Maybe it's the wrong word. There's a gathering sense that Napoleon may be too... He's either going to take over France or he's going to have to be dealt with. Yeah. Because he's too powerful. He's gaining too much esteem within the military. So all of the kind of boring, scared bureaucrats are trying to get him out of Paris, basically. Yeah, because there's a start to become a climate.

6:50The French people want someone to just fucking lead them. Right. Okay. It's very quite Hitlerian, isn't it? Well, it's a Hitlerian journey. This is 1930s Germany, but in France. In France. It's sacre blood. It's French Hitler. There's a Hitlerian-ness to Napoleon, as there will be throughout this story. so uh napoleon is kind of starting to do his own thing right right so he's kind of a law into himself yeah robbie williams yes he's left take that uh and he but he's not yet having a documentary where he's in his pants for the entirety of it in his bed sad yeah they've seen that documentary yeah yeah i did actually just in his pants in his bed being like yeah no it was actually it's pretty good doing that yeah that's meant sit up and put some trousers on robbie yeah anyway so why are they going to Egypt?

7:40Basically Napoleon has designs for two things he wants to be Alexander the Great and obviously Alexander the Great is bossing around He says something like all great men all great names have been made in Asia he believes that if you really want to write your name in history it is in that middle section that you have to have some and he also now at this point the England have the East India Company and we have pretty much, is it the Raj yet? Maybe not. Not yet. Not yet the Raj, but we're pretty much, we're running India. Or at least the company's running India. I think running ports and we're extracting a lot of wealth from it, but I don't think it's...

8:17Well, we're doing business with them. We're doing business with the Indians. We're sending bobs to India. We're sending bobs to India and they're gratefully receiving them. Part of the reason they get so angry is they stop getting their bobs. When is someone going to give them their bobs? Give the Indians their bobs back. anyway in the british museum they're asking for their bobs back um they want the cohen or bob back to them anyway so uh now napoleon is the one of the first people all right to spot that the suez isthmus could lead to a canal yeah so uh part of england's great cuckoldry in the century is designed by napoleon interesting he's the first person to think if we just through that yeah we can get into the uh what would it be red sea yeah uh and then yeah um so i think uh is that the same one it's not it's on the other side it's wrong one listener this episode of fin versus history is brought to you by surf shark what more can we say about our friends at surf shark that we already haven't they are the bread the lone brave salmon yes who are sponsoring this podcast the unsponsorable podcast they said not surf shark the people who provide the best virtual pussy networks in the entire country said no no they are responsible i believe the kind of people who are buying surf shark are the same tot of people good people who listen to fifth history innocent men innocent until proven guilty ignorant thick ignorant until proven guilty good they use vpns because actually some of this show you need a vpn to watch yes what is a vpn imagine you're charlie and you spend your time googling questions that you have no right to be bothering with but you're worried this is this is this stops you being like you're worried about coming across like a freak this is where vpn comes in okay it protects your search history from your employer from your spouse from whoever now we must stress the trauma that you have from what you've searched if that imprints on your brain if that changes your relationship to sex to to go into the toilet to work that vpns can't help with we can't help you we can't help you with that yeah do not come looking to us for liability over the fact you're a head case all right what you look at in your own home is none of my business okay keep it to yourself keep it yourself use surf shark to help keep it to yourself they have three and a half thousand servers in a hundred countries a hundred countries what does that mean what does that mean i do not know yeah i don't know but all i know is that they're the only brand that sponsor us and so i will die for them you're a brave man you're better than me i am right yet again i'm alone sammons swimming upstream right 30 day money back guarantee yeah risk free yeah god bless serve shark and god save the king keep your data safe and we'll see you next time goodbye he also wants is everything we knew about warfare changing right before our eyes the war in ukraine began with tanks and infantry now drones network systems and low-cost weapons wage a battle for dominance

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12:59Because you can't attack the British directly. fundamentally strategically it's not really justified here's the whole justification is i want to stop their lucrative trade in india i'm going to invade egypt the bobs trade i need to disrupt the bobs trade but none of our trade was going through egypt really so though there's a small argument for it it does not really make sense the reason he's going is historical more than anything yes it's to build his name it's to walk where alexander the great walked but it's strategically kind of pointless and that's partly why nelson has no idea where he's going because it makes no sense to go to egypt napoleon is an enlightenment man sure and he is he's he's he's consciously echoing the uh classics caesar cleopatra uh and this and so this his expedition to Egypt is the birth of Egyptology.

13:55Yeah. So he starts the fascination with Egypt. Because on his boats, there's all these scholars, philosophers, there's never really been a fleet like it as filled with this many nerds. 150 savants. Yeah. Which is French for nerd. He's got the hum actuallys on his boat. 150 hum actuallys. And what's so funny about these guys, right, these sort of, these book botherers is that they get there and then they land in Alexandria and then they have to walk to Cairo, which is miles in the heat, 50 degree heat or whatever. And they're so depressed and spazzed out by it that they're walking wearing wool uniforms and they just kill themselves.

14:32They just shoot themselves in the head while they're walking in front of the soldiers. Who do? The savants. Really? Like a number of savants. You know, these great men, these scholars, scholars and racists, a lot of them. And they are so succumbing to dysentery, flies, heat. They just go mad and shoot themselves in front of the marching troops. Anyway, Napoleon set sail from Toulon with 13 ships of the line. Ladies, I'm warning, what are you still doing here? We're discussing ships of the line. 40 ,000 troops, 150 nerds. Now, in June 1798, the British press publishes this wild propaganda because they think that Napoleon is going to invade Britain because all they know is that the fleet has left Toulon.

15:16they could either come round the Straits of Gibraltar and go and invade Britain and the British, they don't know where he's going. They think, are they going to Ireland? Portugal? Are they going to attack the Ottomans? Are they going to go to India? All this thought is that Napoleon's got like proto-submarines or he's got a hot air balloon fleet. Or he's got a big shovel he's going to dig under the tunnel. Fucking dig under the tunnel. They don't know where he's going. There's rumours that he's such a madman that were he to land, the French would eat British babies. Is it Daily Express sort of stuff?

15:47It hasn't really changed, to be fair. So, in June 1798, Admiral Horatio Nelson is given the mission to find Napoleon, find where he's going, and fuck him up wherever you find him. We're looking at a map now of the chase across the Mediterranean. I mean, he looks everywhere. He's looking absolutely everywhere. He literally looks everywhere in the Mediterranean. No stone unturned. it's the heat map of a man who's really doesn't know what position he's playing yeah um it's a bit like the heat map of sulk campbell's never-ending slide tackle where it just goes off the pitch for ages so he starts in cadiz he goes to sardinia then he goes back up to toulon then he goes round to uh all the way down italy to naples he meets um the hamiltons uh not yet he does meet the hamiltons on the way because he asked him he asked them when opponent because So everyone's giving him like tidbits about where Napoleon could be.

16:46Yeah, so it's very like... It's Chinese whispers. Yeah, it's quite... So he went there. Hamilton says that Napoleon's at Sardinia. He goes there. They say that he has gone to Malta, you know, and it just keeps going. So he's looking all the way around, and then Whisper starts to get to him that maybe he's gone to Egypt. So Nelson lands at Alexandria but can't find him. So then he leaves. But they've taken Alexandria. No, no, no. Literally 24 hours later, Napoleon lands. Right. And Nelson thinks, oh, he's not in Egypt. So they miss each other by 24 hours. Interesting. So then Nelson, as you can see, goes up to Turkey and then goes all the way back to Greece before he starts to get information that he is actually in Egypt.

17:30So they miss each other by a matter of hours. I didn't know that. But what's crazy about this is that, you know, the Mediterranean is fucking massive. This is pre-Sat-Nav. Yeah. and you are hunting a fleet of 13 ships. I did think it would be easier to see a fleet. I guess... The sea's fucking huge. Yeah, I guess it's big, yeah. I mean, this is just pure instinct. Does Napoleon know that he's getting chased? I don't know that he does. Really? He's just flying about. It does feel mad that none of this information is getting about these two big fleets. There's a massive sea. There's other ships going around the gossip around the Mediterranean.

18:06There's a lot of trade. They're not that big a fleet. It's not like... Also, I wouldn't believe you're just a mad pirate guy. I wouldn't believe you. I don't know how many fishing boats are bobbing around. Right. There's going to be a... Basically, there's going to be a Greek guy on the coast, and they're going to be like, have you seen Napoleon? He's like, I don't fucking know, mate. I don't fucking know, mate. I saw a big ship I go over there, but I fucking... I don't fucking know. It's lunchtime. I don't know. So eventually, right, Napoleon lands in Alexandria in July 1798. They capture Alexandria on July the 2nd.

18:44Should we play 1798? 1798, right. Well, what's that? Is this after the invention of the spinning Jenny? Surely. Jenny's must be spinning. Can we check that, Charlie? Are Jenny's spinning? Yes. Right. Jenny's are spinning. and is this before

19:08Chinese security guard spins a man with his legs. Take a look at this. This is the most Chinese thing you've ever seen in your life. That's you introduce, it's your dad introducing his new girlfriend to you. Go second one, second one. Kids, check us out. This is the most Chinese thing you've ever seen in your life. Tired ride walks in. This is, it was. Oh my God. Now. No, all I'm saying is that's my wedding night move. I leave the flanks open and I flip my wife down and then suddenly I'm on top. Oh my God. So that's like the Glasgow terrorist attack, but it's Chinese. I don't think if you're Chinese and you can do that, I don't think you should do that because it's, as you say, it feels racist.

19:52Because then I think that all Chinese people can do that. Yeah, I do sort of think that. I think anyone who says they're not, it's like if it came to it, you'd whip it out. you're trying to live a normal life you don't want to be bothered stereotypes but if it came to it you'd whip it out yeah yeah and it's why they're so rude in restaurants because they're like i can get away with it because you don't know what i'm capable of excuse me where's my food right i ordered this an hour ago

20:22so it was after the spinning jenny and it was before a chinese man spanned someone with his legs i guess um do we have a chinese name that rhymes with jenny jin haoli jin haoli terrific comedian um it was after the spinning jenny but before the spinning zanny uh the battle of the nile so july the first the french land in egypt they capture alexandra quite quickly and then they begin this grueling march as i said 43 degrees heat in london these days yeah uh they're suffering from dysentery there is so much poo in their story right oh yeah not to bring the tone down there's so much uh that in this you know the napoleonic wars they're such a it's such a technicolor in my head it's such a technicolor conflict still a dirty one in my head it's still covered it they're still covered in a lot of grit and poo and stuff they are in this in this one there's a lot of poo in it but i i just in my head i get over because i what's sharp but in my head it's like you know it's it's fucking the technicolor of the zulu film yes it's the bright red coats and it's the bright blue uniforms and it's the shining copper cavalry hats and the white horses and the hussar you know it's um it's so cinematic in my head man in these ages could ride a white horse they'd have a 15 day brutal march from alexandra to cairo dysentery they're wearing wool this is the first time that like you know any any european force has come down to egypt yeah uh so they're not they don't have like you desert uniforms or anything for it um the french sabon start shooting themselves in the head uh it's quite a french thing to do isn't it then july the 21st we reach the battle of the pyramids napoleon and his army reach a few miles from the pyramids.

22:07They can see the pyramids and they're standing there and he says to his troops, do you know that we are closer in time to that podcast than the pyramids when they were built? Oh, fuck. And they're like, what? Is this meant to G yourself? I don't know. Do you know that they're so old that actually we're closer to Napoleon than iPhones are? to the iphone than the pyramids do you know just we know whenever you mention the pyramids you've got to mention that we're actually the pyramids are actually closer to i don't fucking know the closer cleopatra is further away from the pyramids than she is to us did you know that did you know that did you know that did you know that they're really old this is back this is me in the um in the house party with a woman corner did you know that shouting she's she's dropped her shoulder did you know that um anyway so in the ridley scott film uh napoleon controversially fires a cannon at the pyramids and critics say that didn't happen because they weren't that close to the pyramids and ridley scott says were you there exactly that was his response to all historical things we will be talking about were you there we will be talking about the ridley scott film uh on the patreon but uh my personal opinion botched job anyway But were you there?

23:30I wasn't there. I wish I was, Ridley. I wish I was. So the Battle of the Pyramids, Napoleon orders asses and savants to the center. Basically, protect the mules and the nerds. So he forms a defensive square. Now, I don't know when we're going to get into military formations. Probably not yet. We'll probably save that for our list. But my God, defensive squares, hedgehogs, you know, prostates be snapping. Prostates are imploding in this series. you know what's that film where the the prostate the hanging prostate implode prostate implosion four what's that film where like they're hanging by a bridge and you see the wires and the bridge that's what people's prostates are doing right okay i mean anyway um so now the egypt is run by the mamelooks are they ottomans uh they we met them in the uh tragic yeah london city council yeah it's the london city council sorry it's sadiq's london the mamluks there we met them in the tragic story of the white slave trade yeah so i read about this what remind me what the slave warriors of medieval islam yeah what does that mean so they were people who were bought as military slaves they then converted to islam and then they'd be freed are they white slaves they are really let's have a look so these are this is in challenge so no they're freed once they convert to islam do you remember so if you couldn't be a slave Slave warriors of Islam, white guys.

24:59Some of them are. Have they got a force of white slave warriors? I think it's quite a diverse crowd, except they're all Muslim. Right. So these are the guys that run Egypt. Again, the uniforms. Do Mamluk slave warriors? Some were taken from Turkey. Right, so they're from all over, but some of them are white. But they're Muslim. Right. As you say, I think there are some figures in history who almost, if they weren't making the history while they're alive, then I'm not sure how historical they would be necessarily in retrospect or rather there are certain people who are actively making you think they're historic while they're alive.

25:39Adrian Charles. Adrian Charles being one of them. You know, match the day too just feels empty since he left. He's now just writing Guardian articles about pints, you know. Maybe the most pointless Guardian article. He somehow has an ability to write. Who the Guardian is paying Adrian Childs to write articles about pints? He's writing about pints. He's writing about yogurts. He's writing about traffic. He's always writing about the most boring thing you could possibly write an article about. Go to Adrian Childs' article. I'm more mean. Let's read some of these. If dishwasher loading was a sport, my dad would be world champion.

26:09That's one. All you can eat. I take those words as a promise and a challenge. What is an app? I honestly have no idea. Who's paying Adrian Childs to write articles? I took drugs recently and colors danced on the inside of my eyelids, Adrian Charles. You're never too old to climb a tree and I should know. Crap. Croatia has enchanting words for genitalia. Why doesn't the UK? I'll tell you what, Adrian. That's not a strong opinion piece. Having read your articles, I thought it was weird to have a favorite spoon. Then I realized I wasn't alone, Adrian Charles. Having read your articles, Adrian, I think you were better on the booze, my opinion.

26:49but no I more mean what I'm talking about is Blair I think Blair is the last who had a sense of history we feel the hand of history on our shoulder he was consciously it's actually called mythopagia it's a mythopagophile not a mythic pedophile mythopagia, mythopia I might be saying it wrong it's someone who consciously builds their own myth or turns their life into a myth while they're alive but in the Napoleon at Wars there's multiple people doing that simultaneously. That's why it's so exciting. Right. But Napoleon, I mean, Napoleon at the pyramids, he's basically getting people to paint him at the pyramids so that there is historic, you know, romantic paintings.

27:28Blair meeting Gaddafi in the desert. He's thinking about the photo. He's thinking about... He's always thinking about the photo art, basically. Now, the Battle of the Pyramids, yes, the nerds and the donkeys get into the centre of the defensive squares. The Mamalooks, 10 ,000 of them die at the cost of 300 Frenchmen. Yeah. So, you know, it's tragedy. They've got his muskets versus swords, right? Tragedy for the French. I mean, they lose 300 men. They then, now they chase the Mamluks into the Nile, right? Now, the Ottoman Mamluks would have all their personal wealth. They'd carry that into battle.

28:04They'd like sew gold coins and jewels and precious metal into their clothes. So after the French absolutely massacre them, they all try and swim across the Nile but they drown under the weight of their own fucking jewellery. Why would you take your whole banking account, your whole NatWest account you're just taking it into battle? Yeah, it's like running in with your credit card. Don't take that. But is it because Muslims believe that you when you die Careful now. Careful now. Is it because, and it might not be I'm not saying it's good or bad either way, but is it because Muslims, some maybe think that sometimes when you die, what you have on you is what you take into the afterlife?

28:43Maybe. I don't know. Don't cut my head off. No. It's because they can't trust people at home. The only thing that goes on with them is their deeds. So why are they taking all the money with them? I think it's because they don't feel that it's safe at home. They don't have wallets yet? Is this pre-wallet? Yeah. Pre-bank account. It's also nice just to have like... I guess there's also no toilets. There's nothing to take the money to. On the back of a system. Right, yeah. Their leadership and factional hierarchy relied on immediate liquidity, bribery and shifting alliances because there's so much bribery yes have they have to be permanently liquid yes please it makes sense actually it's very liquid economy turkey isn't it my friend my friend very good very good friend economy it is the yes please my friend economy there's no assets in the yes please my friend economy uh anyway so uh yeah and then the french once they're all drowning the mamluks the french just basically spend hours cutting into their clothes to nick all their stuff it's like that fountain in rome the trevi fountains basically they're using for a week after battle they're using grappling hooks to fish bloated mamluk corpses slicing open their silk clothes mamluk sounds like a fish some soldiers became overnight millionaires wow napoleon is in cairo uh and he attempts to establish this has been a big victory and so he's feeling pretty good about himself at this point yeah it's a big victory but again he will you know it's that that mythopedia thing yeah he's he massacred 10 000 um boss boss men yeah right and then robbed them yeah and again that's not very i mean robbing up no one should rob a boss man's shop that's like come on that's etiquette and yet he paid he paints it into this it's this great story like he'd beaten history almost even the idea calling it the battle of the pyramids yeah when really it's um robbing 10 000 boss men it's running the people who are who are going like lovely jubbly when you go to the pyramids or like you know those people yeah yeah cheerio yeah so he starts to establish uh an administration in cairo this also begins now the scholars start cooking you know the scholars start digging up mummies uh they're looking at uh sarcophaguses all this shit meanwhile nelson's having a fucking he's on club med he's going around the hole he's going Greece, Crete, Malta, probably having a lovely time.

30:59But eventually, fragments of information begin to align. And he thinks, right, they have gone to Egypt. Fuck. So he turns the fleet around on the 1st of August, 1798. After one of the most exhausting searches in naval history, but not his last by any means, Nelson discovers the French fleet. Now, the French fleet, okay, which how many ships of the line are in the French fleet? I need this information now. I'm about to bust. I'm about to bust. I need to know how many ships, 13 ships of the line in the French fleet. How many in the British fleet? We need to know the scores on the doors. Everyone's searching.

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