# Bit of interesting naval history **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 24, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-interesting-naval-history/848450 "2020-02-24T20:32:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mako88sb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@mako88sb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mako88sb)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-interesting-naval-history/848450/1 "2020-02-24T20:32:43Z")
Never heard about this before. Pretty unusual subject. Video from The History Guy: [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=%23NavalHistory](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23NavalHistory) ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-interesting-naval-history/848450/2 "2020-02-24T21:39:26Z")
A quick look at your posting history tells me you do know how to write. Care to tell us what the hell you want us to click on and why? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-interesting-naval-history/848450/3 "2020-02-24T21:44:00Z")
The link just goes to an index page of stuff like “On this day in naval history.” Nothing linked to directly. Which makes the OP even more opaque than before, if that is possible. ---
**Author:** ![mako88sb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@mako88sb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mako88sb)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-interesting-naval-history/848450/4 "2020-02-24T22:13:51Z")
Sorry. Thought I had it okay. [quote=“mako88sb, post:1, topic:848450”] Never heard about this before. Pretty unusual subject. Video from The History Guy: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HIrLLG2ctzo/maxresdefault.jpg "When a Dutch Fleet surrendered to French Cavalry: Den Helder") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrLLG2ctzo) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-interesting-naval-history/848450/5 "2020-02-24T23:12:23Z")
Thanks, but still not going to click on a You Tube link without knowing what it is… In fact “Pretty unusual subject” pretty much clinches it. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-interesting-naval-history/848450/6 "2020-02-25T00:36:05Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Thanks, but still not going to click on a You Tube link without knowing what it is… In fact “Pretty unusual subject” pretty much clinches it. It’s not even a link to a video. It’s a link to search results, a list of videos that could be different for everyone depending on their Youtube history. There’s no indication of which video the OP expects us to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-interesting-naval-history/848450/7 "2020-02-25T01:17:59Z")
> [@mako88sb](#): > > Sorry. Thought I had it okay. > > > [@mako88sb](#): > > > > Never heard about this before. Pretty unusual subject. Video from The History Guy: > > > > [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrLLG2ctzo](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrLLG2ctzo) It’s a video about an incident that occurred in 1795. France had invaded the Netherlands. The Dutch fleet was trapped in harbor by frozen water. So a detachment of French cavalry was able to attack and capture the Dutch fleet. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-interesting-naval-history/848450/8 "2020-02-25T01:29:06Z")
Post #4 takes you to the actual video. It’s a history-oriented video series, this one deals with the “Battle” of Den Helder, where a Dutch fleet surrendered to French cavalry…which one would consider interesting. The talking head in the video is a bit loud, but covers the subject and it’s prior history well and factually. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-interesting-naval-history/848450/9 "2020-02-25T02:11:30Z")
I’m not going to watch the video, presumably it covers the fact that it wasn’t really a capture so much as a handover. > **[The Only Time in History When Men on Horseback Captured a Fleet of Ships](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/only-time-history-when-bunch-men-horseback-captured-naval-fleet-180961824/)** > > A Dutch fleet stuck in the ice. A group of French soldiers sent to capture it. What could go wrong?