VERY cool: BBC animated Battle of Trafalgar

Mosca · 11-01-05, 03:58

Battle of Trafalgar

Click "Play the game" (it's not really a game), read the background info. Then do "Play the game with explanations". Then play it without animations.

What a great way to illustrate something that is not easily understood through words alone.

Mike-in-Orange · 11-01-05, 07:02

If only my history teachers could have been so engaging back in high school! That was really great, thanks for linking to it.

Accumulator · 11-02-05, 06:14

Mosca- Wow, that's great. Thanks for posting it.

zippymbr · 11-02-05, 10:55

Thanks, it was very well done.

CarWeenie · 11-02-05, 04:00

Yeah, those were the days when men were real men.

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I read that sometimes those ship took up to 1/2 hour to tack.
If you read your wind wrong, you are dead meat.
Imagine during the battle and you were one of those poor grunts topside taking canons in all directions.