Trafalgar Day

[Canary42]

 

Here's wishing you all a happy Trafalgar Day.

 

And R I P Horatio.

[1ozzy]

I've never heard of Trafalgar Day.

Do you celebrate it by singing "15 men on a deads man's chest", then drinking a bottle of rum?

If so, count me in, I like rum😉

 

[Canary42]

Interesting that you should mention rum.

Trafalgar Day commemorates the day that Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the French Fleet which was gathering to invade England.  

Sadly, Lord Nelson was killed in the battle, he was shot by a French sniper from the rigging of an adjacent ship.

Nelson's body was brought back to England preserved in a barrel of rum.

Trafalgar Square in London was named after the battle, and there is a statue of Lord Nelson on a column in the square.

 

[redtrev]

It was a barrel of brandy he was brought back in.

[1ozzy]

I prefer Rum over Brandy Redtrev, but, any port in a storm.

[scorpiojo]

Port and brandy together is good 🥴

[1ozzy]

Really Scorpio?

I knew there was a reason I liked you😇

[Canary42]

Quite correct redtrev, it was brandy. My bad.

[1ozzy]

So Horatio was well and truly pickled by the time he arrived home?

[Canary42]

He was given a fine funeral, as fitting for one of our greatest heroes who saved us from a possible repeat of 1066.