Trafalgar Night

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TRAFALGAR NIGHT AT HOME

Hooray-tio for Trafalgar Night!
Welcome to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity Trafalgar Night at Home!

Join the RNRMC and supporters all over the country for the world’s largest Trafalgar night dinner – an evening steeped in history and heritage. Come together with friends and family to commemorate Nelson’s famous victory and pay tribute to the events that took place more than 200 years ago.

Every penny you raise will help to ensure vital support is available to our remarkable service men, women and their families whenever and wherever they need it.

See - https://www.rnrmc.org.uk/trafalgar-night-home
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Trafalgar Day: Royal Navy marks commemoration on HMS Victory as remembrance service held at Nelson Monument
Remembrance services have been held on HMS Victory and across Portsmouth to mark Trafalgar Day.
See - https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defen ... nt-4380561 - LFT
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Updated Repost on Trafalgar Day Plus One : Conrad on Nelson — What if the Wind Had Shifted?

I am currently traveling, so I managed to miss Trafalgar Day. Here is an updated repost in honor of Nelson’s great victory over the combined French and Spanish fleets a day ago on October 21, in 1805.

There is a tendency to accept history as inevitable, to accept the events of the past as virtually preordained, and to forget that small changes in circumstances could have had major impacts on critical historical outcomes.

I have always been struck that of all the commentary I have read on the Battle of Trafalgar Joseph Conrad is the only writer I am aware of to have asked one simple question — what if the wind had changed? How would a wind shift have altered the history that we all take for granted?

Continues at - https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2023/10/upd ... more-60989
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