My favourite TV channel, UKTV History, had on a Trafalgar Week, complete with documentaries about Lord Nelson. It was really glorious. As for Portsmouth being "faded" - I'm not sure what they mean by that, some parts of it are very lovely.
Regards, Ivan
Do you know what this is about in post #4?
I speny my first twenty-one years in Portsmouth, and wouldn't quarrel with the 'faded' - though it's certainly been much smartened up more recently.
It's probably true, because Nelson chased him out of Egypt after the Battle of the Nile, and then there was the Battle of Copenhagen. Nelson routed the Danish fleet after being signaled during the height of the battle by Admiral Parker to discontinue the fight, and he said to marine Cap. Foley: "You know, Foley, I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind sometimes." And he put the looking glass to his blind eye and said, "I really do not see the signal." His ships pounded the Danes into surrendering as a result.
But Trafalgar will always remain his greatest triumph. He was a little bitty shrimp missing one eye and one arm lost in battle, but by God, Nelson knew how to win spectacular naval victories.