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October 21, 1805. The sea churns red off the coast of Spain. Smoke coils through the rigging. The air is thick with fire, splinters, and screams.

This is Trafalgar.

In a daring break from tradition, Admiral Horatio Nelson orders his ships into two columns—charging headlong into the heart of the Franco-Spanish fleet. It’s a suicide maneuver. But it works. Chaos erupts. Hulls are smashed, decks drenched in blood, and the ocean becomes a floating graveyard.

At the center of it all, aboard HMS Victory, stands Nelson—undaunted, exposed, and resolute. As cannon smoke blinds the sun, he leads the assault with ruthless precision. But even legends bleed. A single musket shot from a French sniper rips through his spine. He dies hours later, carried below decks, whispering of duty and of country.

His death would immortalize him. His victory would shatter Napoleon’s dreams of naval supremacy.

In this haunting episode, Keith guides you through the brutal heart of the Battle of Trafalgar—not just the tactics and triumph, but the human cost, the silence after the guns, and why this blood-soaked day at sea changed the fate of empires.

Nelson did not live to see the victory—but he made sure the world would never forget it.

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