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Also Englad can quit debating about Jutland, for it and perhaps Trafalgar and Blenheim were lost at Munich...
...wrote Horatio, Lord Nelson on Oct. 21, 1805, off Cape Trafalgar. Few hours later the one-armed commander signaled his famed slogan ("England expects every man to do his duty") to his fleet, then swept on the French and Spanish lines, blasted them with his broadsides, clinched the victory for which he had prayed. He then died of a shattered spine after bidding farewell to his flag captain, Thomas Hardy...
...Dorchester, England, last week, items from the Hardy family collection were put up for auction, including two bits of Nelsoniana. One sentimental antiquarian bid nine guineas (about $47) for the manuscript of the Trafalgar prayer. Hottest bidding, however, was over a wisp of hair, which the auctioneer swore had been cropped from Nelson's pate by his vivacious and tenacious mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton. The seadog's wisp was knocked down...
...confused with his distant kin, Author Thomas Hardy, who was not born until 34 years after Trafalgar...
Some 10,000 Britons, led, according to dispatches by British Communists, rioted in Trafalgar Square last week on account of the Austrian crisis (see p. 19), swept over to the nearby German Embassy singing the Communist Internationale and there engaged London bobbies in one of the bloodiest fist fights ever staged. It was estimated that the crowd grew at last to 20,000, shouting "Chamberlain must go!" and "Ribbentrop get out!", yet this mob was expertly "handled" by only 800 police. Noses streamed and eyes were blacked, but British Democracy triumphed in the complete absence of firearms...