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EatLard t1_jdegtzp wrote

Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time. The guy he was talking to got taken out by a cannonball too.

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[deleted] t1_jdej51f wrote

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VengefulMight OP t1_jdeky8l wrote

It was the first defeat Napoleon had suffered since the Battle of Acre (and he’d lost then because he had fought Britain on their strongest point battles in countries where they had colonial leverage and could deploy their navy, which was the best in the world) ten years prior.

The French got a wake up call that day.

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