Billy Ruffian and the Untold Battle of Trafalgar

[anteros_lmc]

A very quick last minute heads up for those in the UK that there is a programme on Channel 4 at 21.00 called "The Untold Battle of Trafalgar". Blurb as follows:

Nelson famously signalled the Battle of Trafalgar with the words: 'England expects that every man will do his duty'. But of the 18,000 sailors fighting for King and Country, 1,400 were

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[anteros_lmc]

Well, we'd be delighted to have you! :) I didn't have a chance to transcribe this when it was on last night but if it appears online I'll try and watch it again and do a summary at least.

[anteros_lmc]

Careful there - you´d be out of chocolate cake in no time.

Don't tell anyone....I don't really like chocolate cake, so you can have mine ;)

There was some interesting research in the programme including a passage from an unpublished diary of Lt Cumby's that his family have kept unpublished and an academic who spoke of the 30 years before about 1815 as being a sort of golden age for black Britons as they suffered less prejudice than previously or since.