Royal Navy Archives - Military Muddling

Trafalgar Day: This Friday 21 October

This Friday marks the 217th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar 21 October 1805. I decided to find out a bit more about the battle. I was fascinated by Nelson’s strategy to attack the Franco-Spanish fleet. I wonder, how would a war game around this engagement or any other naval engagement be designed? What do […]

By Deborah Southwell
October 17, 2022
In Game idea
Tagged anniversary , Battle of Trafalgar , Cape Espartal , Cape Trafalgar , Deborah Southwell , HMS Victory , Horatio Nelson , Napoleonic War , naval battle , naval strategy , naval tactics , Naval warfare , Nelson , Royal Navy , Spain , Strait of Gibraltar , strategy , tactical , tactics , Trafalgar , Trafalgar Day , Villeneuve

Movies: World War II 1939AD -1945AD (Part I)

1939 Battle of the River Plate (2006) (Peter Merritt) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0875504/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl On December 13th 1939, the first great naval battle of World War II took place off the coast of Uruguay. Known as the ‘Battle of the River Plate’, it set as rivals two great naval officers in a deadly psychological duel. 1940 The […]

By Deborah Southwell
March 1, 2022
In At the Movies
Tagged Africa , Alan Turing , Arnhem , Asia , Battle of Britain , BEF , Belgium , Burma , de Gaulle , Deborah Southwell , Dunkirk , El Alamein , Enigma Code , Fire Service , France , Germany , Guadalcanal , HMS Torrin , Iwo Jima , Kokoda , London , Market Garden , Midway , Nazi Germany , New Guinea , Nijmegen , normandy , North Africa , norway , Nuremberg , Oslo , Pacific , Pearl Harbour , River Plate , Royal Navy , Singapore , Soviet Union , Stalingrad , the Blitz , The Netherlands , Tobruk , Uruguay , Violet Szabo , Western Front , World War II

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