Farewell and Adieu

Some scenes of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic wars set to the song "Spanish Ladies".

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Travel & Events

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• spanish
• ladies
• royal
• navy
• napoleonic
• wars
• lord
• horation
• nelson
• trafalgar

[miklaus87]

Does anybody know who the officer at 0:17 is?

[rexlibris99]

@miklaus87 George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, or Admiral Lord Rodney

[1994cordobes]

9 people have not had the pleasure of meeting a Spanish woman :(

[ccAshercc]

I'm a Rifleman myself, from Canada, but these songs stir something within that exists within all true citizens of the Dominion. Long live the Commonwealth, the Empire.

God Save the Queen!

[coryxpara]

I may be an American, but I know in a past life I served on one of His Majesty's ships, for when I hear this music it stirs something in my bones which is unreal and yet deeply part of me. I keep returning to this song on long, lonely nights when I need to reassess myself and know who I am. I know I sang this chorus a couple centuries ago. I know when me and my mates were on the wild seas of the Atlantic, pulling ropes, we sang this together. I don't know much, but I know this.

[uafchris]

@StephanusTacitus God save the King more like!

[dlswee]

@eddybaby58 it has been cur-tailed

[StephanusTacitus]

@ccAshercc This is the sort of song that lies in the heart of a man, and is far and away better than the slop and swill of this current age of degradations. God save the Republic.

[Hooligan85ful]

Long live the Royal Navy

[evilmeerkat007]

@ccAshercc yes you have a point about how they manipulated people to fight with emotive slogans and ideals. but this "obvious benefit" you speak of is not so obvious to me. What benefit was there in populations all over europe allowing themselves to be put into a situation were they killed vast number of each other.

[ccAshercc]

@evilmeerkat007 you've clearly missed the point of what I was saying. The causal factors in a war do not necessarily have anything to do with what motivates a man to enlist and fight. Therefore though you may not agree with the political motivation behind the war you may at least recognize and respect the valourous deeds of those who are actually fighting in it, and the obvious benefit it has given you in your life. The symbols that give courage to a man should not be tarred by the same brush.

[evilmeerkat007]

@ccAshercc dont you get it. they weren't fighting for you and I. They were fighting for the banking interests. who do you think paid for these wars? do some research please

[ccAshercc]

@evilmeerkat007 say what you will, but I'm sure you're thankful that men went, fought, and died for your freedoms in the great wars. Regardless of how you feel the monarchy has treated its citizens or how the British Empire treated its colonies those symbols are what inspired many men to fight and die for you and me. And it is those symbols and history that can often give a man courage under fire, so why scorn them? In todays day and age the Monarchy need only represent the best of what it was

[Frostbyte380]

@waldok1 ...and it's gone right to my head. Where ever I may roam

On land or sea or foam

You will always hear me singing this song

Show me the way to go home