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Battle of Trafalgar
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Medium: Acrylic
Artwork Size: 140cm (w) x 100cm (h)
Uploaded on: Tuesday 12th Jul, 2022
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Medium: Acrylic
Artwork Size: 140cm (w) x 100cm (h)
Uploaded on: Tuesday 12th Jul, 2022
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The Battle of Trafalgar, October 21st, 1805, HMS Victory breaks the Franco-Spanish lines. Followed by HMS Temeraire and HMS Neptune. This shows Victory running aboard the French 74 frigate Redoutable. She has just given a full broadside, raking the French Bucentaure from stern to stem. In This kind of maneuver, the death toll would have been enormous. Cannonballs, Splinters large and small, other flying debris shattering. Not to mention the noise and smoke. From old men, down to small boys were wounded and killed outright in these battles. Those that never died in battle often died afterward as splinter wounds turned nasty and got infected. The smoke would actually have made visibility zero.
