Nelson: The Final Showdown (TRIH ep 612, part 5)
1805 · Resource
This episode chronicles Horatio Nelson's return to Britain in August–October 1805, his emotional farewell to Emma, Lady Hamilton, and the mounting national panic over a possible French invasion. Tom and Dominic trace Nelson's rising celebrity, his meetings with political leaders including William Pitt, and his obsessive planning to annihilate the combined Franco-Spanish fleet.
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