🎧 Victory. Nelson. Trafalgar with Andrew Baines
Napoleon Collection
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41m
For the 214th anniversary of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson's decisive victory at Trafalgar Andrew Baines, curator of HMS Victory, talks Dan through the events of 21 October 1805: the ship, the man, the battle.
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