# Happy Trafalgar day!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 21, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346 "2011-10-21T10:38:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Corporal\_Nobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Corporal\_Nobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporal_Nobbs)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346/1 "2011-10-21T10:38:54Z")

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On this day in 1805 Admiral Lord Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet… Happy Trafalgar Day.

“A willing foe, and sea room”

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346/2 "2011-10-21T19:36:29Z")

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_England expects every man today to do his duty!_

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346/3 "2011-10-21T21:08:38Z")

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_Engage the enemy more closely._

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**Author:** ![Corporal\_Nobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Corporal\_Nobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporal_Nobbs)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346/4 "2011-10-21T21:18:05Z")

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About to watch Master and Commander while drinking myself into a stupor. Us sailors have a reputation to uphold!

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**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346/5 "2011-10-21T23:51:58Z")

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It looks like Victory is in need of a major overhaul.

> **[Let's make her shipshape: Workmen swing into action as ten-year restoration...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011749/Lord-Nelsons-flagship-HMS-Victorys-10-year-restoration-begins.html)**
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> A ten-year battle to restore Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, which has been on display in Portsmouth Harbour since being taken out of service in 1812, has begun.

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346/6 "2011-10-22T01:19:07Z")

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Old Boney better watch out!

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**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346/7 "2011-10-22T07:06:16Z")

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_Kiss me Hardy._

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**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346/8 "2011-10-22T11:49:35Z")

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> [@Corporal\_Nobbs](#):
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> **Happy Trafalgar day!**

Reported for French bashing.

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**Author:** ![Corporal\_Nobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Corporal\_Nobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporal_Nobbs)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trafalgar-day/600346/9 "2011-10-22T12:53:33Z")

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> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#):
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> Reported for French bashing.

Yes they were bashed… Or so reports said.