The Battle of Trafalgar

This is a short documentary on the Battle of Trafalgar done for one of my college courses as a group project. It took a couple of weeks for the research and prep and the editing was done in around three days. Feel free to comment and critique.

Research and script done by Dan Cincinnati and Drew Mengler.
Audio observed and script edited by Brittany Hall.
Video and Audio editing done by Katherine Moore (Me).
Software used: Audacity and Photo to Movie.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Battle
• Trafalgar
• Documentary
• Horatio
• Nelson
• Napoleon
• Skillet
• Military
• History
• Naval
• Warfare

[toonsta1892]

Overall story was good. However Nelsons body was actually placed in a barrel of "BRANDY" and not Rum. Rum later became known as Nelsons Blood, when in fact it should of been Brandy that took on this nickname.

[JFreakdc747]

@toonsta1892 Really? I didn't know that! Hm, you learn something new every day!

[SpearSiix]

the commentator is terrible who cannot project his voice or read with a sense of confidence. The ocean is "less choppy" than this fucking retard!

[JFreakdc747]

@SpearSiix U MAD BRO?

[numptyboxer]

Good job! A well researched and paced doco well layed out. It's a shame that some commenter didn't realise that one of the deciding factors of the battle was that the sea wasn't at all choppy before they fired their broadside....

[Sky1green]

Nelson is hailed as a "great" admiral for winning battles that, given the conditions, even a retarded monkey in Admiral colors would have won for the Brits.

I mean, think of the Battle of Aboukir; A French fleet forming in line anchored at a exposed harbour and leaving a nice gap between the front ship and the shallow waters so that british ships could sail thru, gain local superiority, engage the parked french ships 2 or 3 to 1 on both sides of the line and.. next one..

How extraordinary...

[Sky1green]

close ranks and hurried up to support the by then outnumbered, outgunned and smashed center, whereas the French ships on the vanguard saw the fucking mess and fled the battle without firing a shot. Good news is that days after the battle they were intercepted by a british squadron, and as expected, the french surrendered.

The odds were favourable to the British fleet, as it had excellent skilled crews, but had an Spanish Admiral been in command before the battle... not this outcome for sure.

[Sky1green]

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- In addition, the Franco-Spanish fleet had the winds agianst them, whereas the brits had the wind on their side. That's a huge advantage.

- Nelson's fleet engaged the centre of the allied fleet, with ship after ship cutting the line and envolving the opponnets. So here you would see 3 or 4 british ships engaging 1 Spanish or French ship

- While all this was going on, the vanguard and rearguard could not take action. The rearguard, mostly Spanish ships, tried desperately to --->

[Sky1green]

All crap.

The battle was won by the brits for several reasons, primarily because Villeneuve was an asshole. Every single Spanish Admiral was against sailing the fleet to battle Nelson. And then comes the rest of Villeneuve's assholeness;

- Plan was to form a line of battle. That is easy when you have a realtively small sized formation of ships belonging to the same navy and naval specifications and speed. That was not the case and the line of battle was never truly formed.

--->

[smattwood]

great video thanks :)

[HallettDesign]

Have you been deepthroating barbed wire or something? fuck.

[Hughes1Callum]

Although this is a well researched video, I have to challenge your comment that "only one last great obstacle was blocking his pass", as Russia was also a major hindrance on his hopes of completely domination, although I expect Napoleon himself could not have anticipated the disastrous 1812 Russia campaign.

[chelseayay1]

isnt the battle of trafalgar where the HMS victory kicked that one miget's ass? i cant quite remember

[odalrich]

@21oct1805 Villeneuve was NOT executed. After he was freed by the British in late 1805, he returned to France; his requests to get back into military service weren't answered. In April 1806 he was found dead in his room in a hotel in Rennes, France, with stab wounds in his body, the verdict was suicide, although the British press of the time suspected he had been murdered on Napoleon’s orders. If true, a murder isn't an execution.

[Antares2F]

@manucaribeytube Pity that Lucas didn´t get Villeneuve before the battle. When H. Nelson was in the process of breaking the line, I suppose that Lukas got angry beyond saying at Villeneuve´s passivity.At least Cosme Churruca on board of the "San Juan" was, and that is a documented fact