Nelson: Slaughter in Naples (TRIH eps 608-613)
1800 · Resource
This episode recounts Admiral Horatio Nelson's campaign in the Baltic and the Battle of Copenhagen (spring 1801). Hosts narrate the strategic context — Britain’s need to control the seas and the threat posed by the League of Armed Neutrality — and outline Nelson’s appointment, his move to the 74-gun Elephant, and his preparations with captains such as Thomas Masterman Hardy and others. The program dramatizes the approach into Copenhagen harbour, the danger of shoals, the use of close-range ca...
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Around 1800
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- Cession of Louisiana to the US (1803)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 (1808)