Tag: war

unhistorical:

October 21, 1805: The Battle of Trafalgar is fought.

At the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off Cape Trafalgar (south of Spain), the British Royal Navy engaged and decisively defeated a larger Spanish-French force in one of the most significant engagements of the War of the Third Coalition. Before the 1800s, the British Royal Navy (while large) was consistently matched or outmatched by enemy forces, but its victory at Trafalgar cemented Great Britain’s status as the greatest naval power in the world. 

The main commanders at Trafalgar were Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Federico Gravina, and one-armed national hero Horatio Nelson; the latter two died from injuries sustained during battle. As the battle commenced, Nelson famously signaled “England expects that every man will do his duty”. He was shot and killed on the deck of the HMS Victory during the battle, but managed to defeat the larger force through superior tactics, and in the end the British took twenty-one enemy ships and 8,000 men prisoner. The real victory, however, was that the British were now ensured safety against French invasion. Trafalgar probably had little effect (compared to its long-term significance) on the war itself, as Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz just months later crushed the Third Coalition, but Britain’s dominance at sea lasted until long after the Emperor’s death. 

fapoleon-bonerparte:

Vice-Admiral’s Full Dress Coat, 1795-1812

This full dress coat belonged to Nelson (1758-1805). The coat is of blue wool and lined with white silk twill. However, only the left sleeve is lined. Nelson kept the right sleeve buttoned to the front of his coat by means of a small black silk loop sewn to the edge of the cuff. Nelson’s four orders – Knight of the Bath, Order of the Crescent, Order of Ferdinand & Merit and Order of St Joachim – are sewn to the front of the coat and over the edge of the lapel so that it could not be unbuttoned. Instead, it was fastened by two hooks and eyes set just inside the edge of the lapels. The three-point pocket flaps and arrangement of gold lace along the back vent of the coat are elements from the first uniform patterns of 1748.

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barbucomedie:

Nelson’s Trafalgar coat of the 1795-1812 pattern from 1805 on display at the National Maritime Museum in London

During the battle The Victory came under heavy fire and at 1.15 pm Nelson was hit in the shoulder by a musket ball fired from the mizzen top of the French ship Redoutable. The hole can be seen on the left shoulder of his uniform.

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cerebralzero:

Obama finally admits the US is training ISIL/ISIS.

Fucking knew it.

“With the additional steps I ordered last month, we’re speeding up training of ISIL forces including volunteers from Sunni tribes in Anbar province.”

The White House desperately wants you to believe that this was a slip-up. The official transcript released by the White House contains the word “Iraqi” in brackets following the acronym ISIL, instead of something much more intuitive, such as prefacing the acronym with “anti-”.

But if you watch the video (first link), you can see clearly that Obama said exactly what he meant: Sunni tribes in Anbar province are among the most fundamentalist Muslims in the region. It is here that the Islamic State recruits most of its Iraqi volunteers considering most of the Sunnis living here oppose the Iraqi government.

If “training of ISIL forces” was a slip-up, why would he follow up with an affirmation that the volunteers were extremist Sunnis in Anbar?

Additional commentary from allmarketsbecomeblack: and this is without taking into account all those Toyota trucks and military gear Daesh is running around with. Wonder how much they spent on all that. But of course we already know that the formation of this “Salafist principality” is exactly what the west wants to isolate Iran from Syria.

Read that last document in particular, as it is a source straight from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Not exactly news, considering Syrian ‘rebels’ that unsurprisingly turned out to be terrorists were armed and funded by the US.

Isn’t this called aiding the enemy?

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(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

historical-nonfiction:

In Hinduism, an astra was a supernatural weapon, presided over by a specific deity. To use one, the hero had to memorize then recite a specific incantation, or invocation, which would call upon a specific god or goddess and ask them to make an astra. The deity invoked would then endow the weapon, making it impossible to counter through regular means.The word eventually evolved to mean any hand-carried weapon.