WEBVTT - An Untenable Situation 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.760 Your holster is way more important than you think it is. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.640 It's just way more important than you think it is. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.880 What look, and I get that. The holsters not the 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.560 sexy part of carrying firearms. All right. You want to 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:15.920 talk about your weapon and your ammunition. You want to 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.919 talk about your safety training. You want to talk about 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.080 how you did at the range. Oh, look at my groups. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:21.959 I was doing these failure drills today, and all that 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.120 stuff is really important. I mean, really really important. I'm 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.560 not discounting that, but I've known so many people who 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.000 do all those things. 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I want you 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.200 to consider everything in your day to day life, whatever 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:53.880 that consists of morning cup of joe, maybe a little 0:01:53.920 --> 0:02:00.320 breakfast time, maybe the coffee gets the old juices flowing, 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:08.840 and you gotta hit the head before you head to work, sleeping, napping, reading, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:14.080 watching TV, putting together model airplanes, working out what all 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.640 the things you do in your home. And you're going 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.799 through every single minute of your day doing these things. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:30.880 Only today is the day where at any moment, at 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:38.000 any moment, a sixty pounds steel cannon ball could come 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.000 blowing through that house and you have no idea where 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:49.720 or what it's gonna do when it gets there. One 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:54.119 of the things you and I can't comprehend because it's 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.680 you can't put yourself in the mind and the feelings 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.240 of another human at another point in time, even even 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.200 when we talk about things like battles, and I know 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:08.200 I have so many people who are veterans. I've been 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:13.240 there shooting at me too. I can understand it somewhat, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.560 but you can't put yourself in the mind of each 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:24.480 in every person, in every crazy situation throughout history. The 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:33.400 life of somebody on a naval vessel has always fascinated 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:41.280 me always. I just I mean, they say combat in 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:48.880 general is one percent pure terror percent boredom, and having 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.120 been there and done it, I will tell you one 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:56.160 percent true. You're just trying to keep yourself from going 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.839 crazy from boredom half the time, and the other time 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:04.440 they're trying to kill you. That has to be magnified 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:11.480 a thousand times on board a naval vessel, because one 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:17.680 you're not on land, you're in the water on something 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:23.479 that floats. If that's something that floats ceases to float, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:29.160 you're in a great deal of trouble. That aspect alone 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:36.719 is It's crazy, isn't it? Would you think about it? Yeah, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.200 Chris said, imagine the paranoia with the U boats in 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.320 World War Two. It's so true. It's so true. That's 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.280 crazy enough alone. You and I love boats. Everybody in 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.560 general people love boats. I've told you before. I love 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.080 being out on the ocean, and in part because of 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.279 the danger. You look out at all the water. You 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.400 look over the side of the boat and look down. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.960 What's down there? How deep does it go? How strong 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:05.000 is the current? Are there sharks under there? But that's 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:10.080 on a fishing vessel in Florida? What are you thinking 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.640 in the middle of the ocean on a naval boat, 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:20.760 going into combat, knowing either I am going to go 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.719 down or he is going to go down. And you 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.000 know what, there's actually a chance both of us are 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.279 going down. There's a chance. As I look out and 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.560 look down at that water, if I don't die on 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.440 the ship, I'm going to end my life in that 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:42.119 water somehow, someway. You remember the story of the ship, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.800 the Indianapolis. We did. It's that famous World War two story. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.200 Ship delivers to bomb. I'm not going into it today. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.200 Ship goes down and the guys spend I think it 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.279 was four or five days in the water, getting eaten 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.800 by sharks, dying of thirst, everything else injured. And you 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.800 remember the horror of that. I mean great, the greatest 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:08.760 nightmare of all time. But here's the thing. You and 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.919 I only know the story of the Indianapolis because they're 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:18.120 one of the very very few who got found in time. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:25.560 Many many, many many many a sailor throughout the history 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:30.479 of mankind ended his days exactly like the men on 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:34.040 the Indianapolis did. You just didn't hear about it because 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:41.799 they all died first. And that's only part of it. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.479 Is the water the other part of it when it 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.400 comes to naval warfare and whatever period of time you're 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.240 dealing with. For the most part, I realized pre canon 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.120 it was more ramming of ships and stuff too, which 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.600 is crazy. It's crazy to me. They used to put 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.080 these huge metal spikes on the end of ships, and 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.520 that was the plan. Let's just run into him. This 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:09.400 is wild to me. But once cannon fire was invented, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.920 this is another thing that I find crazy about naval battles, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:19.760 naval life, your life on a navy ship then and 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.920 now now. Don't get me wrong. It's not the life 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.960 of luxury by any stretch of the imagination, and especially 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.679 back in the day, as we talked about extensively. That's 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:35.080 hard living. Man, preheat, pre ac stuck in the middle 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.560 of the ocean, that's hard living. You're not exactly sleeping 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.560 in a temper pedict king sized bed. You are working 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:48.960 your tail off. I mean, it's hard living. However, it's 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.760 a heck of a lot better than me and on 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:56.040 land at war. When you're in the navy, food may 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.080 not be great. You're eating three squares a day. If 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.200 you're not in the middle of combat, you're almost undoubtedly 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:07.680 getting plenty of sleep at night. You know, it's life. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:12.720 Ain't the end of the world out there until combat time, 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.680 when you would, especially in the era we're about to 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:21.840 talk about here, combat time, you go from having a 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:27.560 life that was rough but okay too, you are guaranteed 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:34.760 to be under point blank artillery fire. That's insane to 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.840 me to think about that level of danger and fear 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:43.320 that must have been going into your head. Think about 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.720 an eighteen oh five, because that's the time. We're going 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:51.480 in an eighteen o five sailing vessel, naval vessel, two 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:57.120 of them, with two, three maybe four rows of cannons 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.840 all sticking out the side. You know, you can picture it, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.840 seen enough pirate movies to picture what I'm talking about, 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:10.319 coming up within fifty feet of each other and everybody 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.720 firing at the same time. What does that sound like? 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:22.040 What does it look like? The splinters, the metal flying everywhere. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:29.920 That is unimaginable. That level of danger, that is just 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:36.240 unimaginable to me. So let us rewind and set things 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.319 up before we get to the famous Battle of Trafalgar. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:47.319 This is the situation on the ground in eighteen oh five. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:53.920 Napoleon is still king dog out there, I should mention 0:09:55.520 --> 0:10:00.200 if that year, that era sounds familiar to you, you 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.120 may be thinking, gosh, this is nagging at me. What's 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.880 happening there? Remember Lewis and Clark? Remember how Lewis and 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.600 Clark began their journey or what kicked off their journey. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.880 A little thing called the Louisiana Purchase where Thomas Jefferson 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.400 bought the basically the western United States of America and 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:24.200 bought it from Napoleon who no longer How do you 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.800 use for it? Just give me some cash. Well, that's 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.640 right about this time, isn't it funny? How it all 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:49.640 overlaps Napoleon fighting this war with some American dollars. This 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:53.079 is a Jesse Kelly show. I used to sell RVs. 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.720 You know that. I was a sales manager for an 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.679 RV dealership, and a huge part of doing that job 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:06.480 was dealing with financing, getting people loans for their RVs. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.559 As somebody who has sold RVs, as somebody who was 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.840 bought and sold several homes, please hear me on this. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:24.560 Having a good credit score is everything, absolutely everything, and 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.400 if yours is bad, you need to take steps to 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:33.679 raise it. Do you know with Scoremaster you can raise 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.080 your credit score. 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You see, 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:58.800 this man is uniquely talented, absurdly talented, gaining victories and 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.320 then using victory used to broaden his coalition. That great 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.760 is out. The man is outstanding on the battlefield. And 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:12.319 we have this funny way of looking at history because oftentimes, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.800 you know, things work out in the end, don't they 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.080 Eventually over a long enough timeline, things work out in 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.640 the end. You and I are still sitting here today. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.560 There we're all right. Every day above ground is a 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:29.520 good day. Well, you know, that whole Hitler thing. It's 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.560 a great way to think about this and how the 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.800 Allies all came together to defeat this monster who's murdering 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.439 a bunch of people and things like that, that whole 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:46.000 Hitler thing. You remember, what if the Allies lost not 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:51.160 just once, but then five ten years later Allies got 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.520 together again. All right, we really got to stop this 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:58.360 Hitler guy. He's killing all the Jews. Let's go, and 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:07.360 then lost again. What goes through your mind if you've 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:15.080 taken on the anti Christ and you lose, not once 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:20.520 but twice. We don't think about that, do we. It's 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:25.640 World War two America all by ourselves, stepped up, beat 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.960 those filthy Germans and the Japs. That's America. But that's 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:36.040 what we like to think about, right, What if the 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:44.120 Allies lost? It's crazy, However, at eighteen o five, at 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:50.200 this point, Napoleon is facing not his first, not his second, 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:55.720 but the third European coalition that's trying to put him down. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.680 They've already all got together twice and taken on this guy, 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:06.640 and he's still standing there. Are you feeling like your 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.600 her world is going to end. Britain certainly was because 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:18.040 they were still standing there taking it. Now, Britain has 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.640 this incredible navy. This is the I mean, this is 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.400 probably the crown jewel of the Royal Navy. We've talked 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.600 so much about this throughout you know my shows. You 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:32.600 know by now the it's an island nation. They prioritize 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:37.760 navy absurdly and they're really, really, really good at it. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:42.520 It's really funny because Napoleon has no use for it. Now, 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:47.000 I say no use. He understands very well he has 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.160 to have a navy. He has to have a very 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:53.080 powerful navy. He wants to have a very powerful navy. 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.640 He just his mind doesn't work that way. He's a 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:02.240 land army, guys. It's not only that he's annoyed that 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:08.240 there are places he's outdone and outfoxed, and these stinking 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:14.440 dirty Brits are blockading his sports. He's not getting the trade. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.680 It's dry. It's one of these things that drives Napoleon battie. 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.840 He can't handle it. That's how Napoleon's feeling about it. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.160 I hate these people. I want to destroy these people. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:31.600 They had a brief year long in yearlong piece called 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.320 the Piece of Aina in eighteen o two at lasted 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.320 a year and immediately they're fighting again. This is not 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.840 going to work, Napoleon and Britain. They're not going to 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.880 just coexist side by side. It's one of these situations 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:48.120 that's called how would you say this untenable? About that? 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.120 Chris Boom, look that up. I just heard that word. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:52.720 I want to make sure it means exactly what I 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:58.480 think it means. The situation is untenable. If that word 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:03.000 means what I think, piece is broken, they're back at 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:08.880 each other's throats. Now here's how the navies are composed one. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.960 The French navy is not just the French navy. It's 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:16.200 the French and the Spanish together. If it sounds like 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.880 France is kind of all over the place in this 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.760 Napoleonic era, it's because they are. They're against them, they're 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:26.040 for them, they're against them, they're for them, oftentimes not 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.680 by choice. But the Spanish navy in the French Navy 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.240 is one thing, and they are facing off against the 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:39.040 British navy. Napoleon has one hundred thousand men and he 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.359 wants to land them on England and have them take 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:47.400 England once and for all. Just get my hundred thousand 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.440 dudes onto the shore so I can finish off these 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.560 pesky Brits who never have much of a land army. 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:59.080 The problem for Napoleon is, as always when you're dealing 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:04.399 with Britain, how do I get them there? Pre flight? 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:09.000 In the era pre flight, you gotta sail them. There's 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.439 the English Channel, you gotta cross it. The English know 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:18.360 this as well. They have their elite fleet patrolling that channel. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.399 You ain't just walking them across. And here's the real 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:26.960 danger if you're Napoleon. It's not losing a naval battle. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:32.160 It's losing all the men on the ships. It's one 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.159 thing to have men die randomly in battle, it's another. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.919 It's quite another to have a hundred thousand men on 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.600 ships that go down to the bottom of the ocean. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:47.160 That is a fast, devastating way to lose an entire army. 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.600 You can't risk it. You have got to do something 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.000 to get these dirty Brits out of the way so 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:58.880 you can sail across the channel and land them on England. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:05.960 So here's what Napoleon comes up with. He has a 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:11.440 man in charge of his fleet called Villeneuve, Villa, Neueve, 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.920 villa Neeve. I've heard it pronounced a thousand different ways. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.040 I'm going to call him Villaneve today, but that's almost 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.639 undoubtedly wrong. If you're going to email me and tell 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.960 me the correct way, that's fine, but I really don't care. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:28.240 He's not an American Chris let see. So you're welcome 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.680 to email me Jesse at Jesse Kelly show dot com. 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:37.520 And I should clarify about Villaneve. Villaneve is an extremely 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:42.719 incapable commander of a fleet. However, to his credit, he 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.800 never claimed to be a great capable commander of a fleet. 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:48.720 He never claimed to be good at it at all. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:54.320 He's just simply the best Napoleon has. Now. I don't 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.639 know about you, but as I was digging into the 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.400 Battle of Trafalgar and I find the British Navy has 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:06.600 all these elite commanders and the French Navy doesn't have 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:12.119 squat for elite commanders, I found myself asking why that 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:17.679 doesn't make sense to me? Well, maybe you've heard this 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:22.640 little thing called the French Revolution, so have I. It 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.000 turns out the French Revolution, as you probably already know, 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:32.880 involved the execution of many of the higher class members 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:34.640 of British society. We want to put it that way. 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:41.280 Higher class the aristocracy probably a better way to put it. Well, okay, 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:43.680 that's fine. Maybe you're one of those people eat the rich. 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:48.240 I'm not, but that's fine. However, you do pay a 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:53.640 penalty for things like that. It turns out the commanders, 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.639 most of the commanders, the officers, the people with experience 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.760 in the French naval service who not only command your 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:04.399 ships but train the next generation of officers to command 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.920 their ships. You chopped their heads off in the French Revolution. 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:12.960 So Napoleon's putting together a navy and he just doesn't 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:21.200 have the long seasoned, experienced naval commanders. He has people 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.159 like this idiot Villa Nave, and he's got to figure 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.960 out how to break this blockade. 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That's Gold 0:22:41.840 --> 0:23:16.000 Alliance dot com slash jesse. Make sure you're protected from trouble. Well, 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:20.320 you can't shoot your way past the English right now 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:23.160 on the high seas. And half the reason you can't 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.840 shoot your way past the English on the high seas 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:29.640 is they have all your freaking ports blockaded. You need 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.960 to come up with a plan. And the man in 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:35.840 charge of the British fleet, he is a famous, famous 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:40.240 human being. He's called Horatio Nelson. We will get back 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:43.320 to that. That's one of only two names you really 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:47.080 need to remember today. Villaneve is in charge of the 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:52.119 French fleet, Horatio Nelson in charge of the British fleet. 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:58.640 Villaneve and Napoleon come up with an idea. If we 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:02.440 want to pull this man massive British Navy away from 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:07.400 where they're guarding the British shores, why don't we head 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:12.200 over the Caribbean or the Caribbean, however you say it, 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:16.240 it sounds weird, But the Caribbean is obviously a profitable 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:19.560 British colony, as you well know by now because you 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:23.639 listen to my show, and it's not very well defended. 0:24:24.040 --> 0:24:26.639 The Brits have a reason it's not very well defended. 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:29.600 We can't hardly stock the navy up in the Caribbean. 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:32.520 We were trying to fight off this short little tyrant 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:38.960 over here in Europe. The French bust out and they 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:41.320 head for the Caribbean. Now Here is one of the 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:47.360 funny things about ancient combat, especially ancient naval combat. Something 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:49.920 you and I don't really wrap our minds around too 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:54.560 much because of modern technology, is they didn't leave a 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:57.200 note with the Brits on the way out of town 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:00.960 saying we're heading to the Caribbean. The Brits see the 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:06.720 French breakout and Nelson. Nelson doesn't have any idea where 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:10.640 they went. He thinks they might have gone to the Indies. 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:14.080 He thinks they might have gone to Egypt. In fact, 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:18.480 he heads to Egypt first. Egypt is absurdly profitable. Trade 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:21.320 routes need to stay open. Nelson's all maybe they went 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:26.520 down there. He finally figures out they're on the way 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:30.200 across the ocean, takes off after them, and it's just 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:39.320 this long, brutally slow naval plotting thing. However, they don't 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:44.159 pull enough guys out to actually open up the English Channel. 0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:49.080 These Brits are not stupid. Yeah, I don't think we'll 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:54.960 be sending the whole fleet over there. No. Napoleon, now frustrated, 0:25:55.560 --> 0:26:00.399 very very frustrated, decides he's going to abandon the Asian 0:26:00.440 --> 0:26:03.360 of Britain and he's just going to take this huge 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:08.160 army and he's going to move them to Austria and Russia. Instead. 0:26:09.600 --> 0:26:15.320 Fleet makes its way back over to Europe and now 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:18.960 they see each other. And here's one of the things 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:21.960 I want you to understand. Horatio Nelson is in charge 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:26.520 of the British fleet. The British ships at this time 0:26:28.160 --> 0:26:34.119 they were made for a fist fight. They were short 0:26:34.960 --> 0:26:40.280 and squat and strong, built like tanks. They're built to 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:44.000 blockade in your people, because I know if you want out, 0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:46.760 you've got to come but right up against me and 0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:50.280 we'll have a good old fashioned fist fight. That French 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:52.679 ships and I mean they're French and Spanish. I'm just 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:57.160 gonna call him Friendships are long and fast with sales. 0:26:57.200 --> 0:27:00.840 They can move, really, really move. It's one of these 0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:03.680 real I mean, people love this battle because it's such 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:08.000 a prize fighter thing. It's such a you know, it's 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:10.960 a Muhammad Ali dancing around the ring, light on his 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:15.239 feet versus Joe Frazier. He wants to get right up 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:18.440 in your face and left hook your jaw into outer space. 0:27:20.280 --> 0:27:22.520 You need to think of the Brits like Joe Frasier, 0:27:23.240 --> 0:27:28.560 the French like Ali, except the French don't have a 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:35.840 commander like Muhammad Ali's brain. They have Villaneve. The Brits, however, 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:40.200 they have this Nelson, and Nelson knows exactly what he 0:27:40.240 --> 0:27:47.320 wants to do. Nelson wants to slam into this French 0:27:47.480 --> 0:27:52.239 column in the center of it and the rear of it, 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:56.640 essentially cutting them off from the front of it. That's 0:27:56.680 --> 0:27:59.119 what he wants to do, and he wants to and 0:27:59.119 --> 0:28:00.960 I've got to try to explaining this to you. It's 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:03.240 going to be easy. Bear with me. He wants to 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:06.879 cross the tea of the French. And this is what 0:28:06.920 --> 0:28:11.760 I mean by crossing the tea. When ships sail, whether civilian, 0:28:11.880 --> 0:28:14.720 naval or otherwise. In general, you need to think of 0:28:14.720 --> 0:28:17.040 them as sailing in a line. Now they spread out 0:28:17.080 --> 0:28:19.360 a little, but they're sailing in one long line. There's 0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:23.640 a line of ships, all right. That's the vertical part 0:28:23.680 --> 0:28:27.080 of the tea. What you want to do and what 0:28:27.119 --> 0:28:30.080 they want to do to you a naval warfare, it's 0:28:30.160 --> 0:28:32.840 become the top part of the tea. You want to 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:37.520 cross their tea, which will allow you, if you picture it, 0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:41.240 you can use the broadside where all your cannons are, 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:45.680 all your broadside guns to shoot at all their ships. 0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:48.440 They can hardly use any of their guns to shoot 0:28:48.440 --> 0:28:50.880 at you at all, maybe a few guns up front. 0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:55.400 Your rear guns are completely useless as somebody has crossed 0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:59.080 your tea. And what's wild is this did not change 0:28:59.240 --> 0:29:02.600 once we left the era of sail into eras like 0:29:02.680 --> 0:29:08.160 World War One. They're still crossing the tea period trying 0:29:08.160 --> 0:29:14.320 to cross his tea. Naval warfare it can get boring, almost, 0:29:14.800 --> 0:29:19.480 but it's really all about maneuvering. I mean, so much 0:29:19.520 --> 0:29:22.840 of it's about maneuvering. And when I say maneuvering, think 0:29:22.880 --> 0:29:29.120 of the vast ocean distances. Now imagine that in nothing 0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:34.240 but sail, nothing but sail driven ships. And you're going 0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:39.920 at two miles an hour. You know you walk at 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:45.800 three or four right unless you're a hobbit two miles 0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:52.880 an hour. Think about that. Think how grindingly slow that is. 0:29:53.760 --> 0:29:56.680 And this is what's wild in this era and the 0:29:56.720 --> 0:30:00.320 era of cannon before the huge naval guns. You can 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:06.880 picture now not only can you see each other, you 0:30:06.920 --> 0:30:12.200 can see each other a long, long, long time before 0:30:12.320 --> 0:30:17.560 you're actually fighting. You're gonna wake up in the morning 0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:21.320 and look across the ocean and see the French navy there. 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:25.680 You're going to try to maneuver yourself in position and 0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:28.800 fight them and all these other things. It might be 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:33.000 dinner time before the first cannon shot. How are your 0:30:33.120 --> 0:30:37.400 nerves doing for seven or eight hours as you await 0:30:37.520 --> 0:30:45.160 getting your artillery blown? Imagine that. I just can't wrap 0:30:45.200 --> 0:30:50.000 my mind around that. Now. Horatio Nelson knows what he's doing, 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:54.600 as I said, Villeneuve does not. Horatio Nelson wants to 0:30:54.640 --> 0:30:57.120 cross their tea in two different places, like I said, 0:30:57.120 --> 0:31:02.720 two different columns. One of his columns, his second column, 0:31:03.680 --> 0:31:06.400 it's going to if he angles it right, crossed the 0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:13.320 tea in the British rear Horatio Nelson's column. To his credit, 0:31:14.240 --> 0:31:16.680 he's smashing right into the center of this thing. And 0:31:16.720 --> 0:31:19.920 when I say him, I mean him personally with his 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:23.680 other ships. I think that's so freaking cool. Could easily 0:31:24.080 --> 0:31:28.000