
Nelson's Victory at Trafalgar
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Nelson's Carried Below, and the Fighting Temorar
The fighting temorar joins the line. The men on the deck have been exposed to this fire now for well over an hour on the run, and then as the've smashed through the line. And these are iron spheres two or three inches across that have a fuse in a detonating charge. He's trained them with papie mache versions of these grenades. Nd, captain a has to surrender. Out of a crew of almost 650 men on that french ship, only a hundred of them are left fit a. So that gives an indication of the herendous punishment they've taken at the hands of temore and also of victory's broadside guns.
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