
The Battle of Trafalgar
In Our Time: History
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In Our Time With Melvin Bragg
Stephen Pinker: Nelson's courage, moral and physical helped him to make his decisions in a very unbiased way. He decided in ways that we would think were unreasonable like flouting his love affair to Lady Hamilton or disobeying orders. If you read his correspondence, he's always concerned about the larger situation. We all want to reason more clearly but even the best of us get things wrong.
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