Random Quote Generator

THE POET AS SCIENTIST

THE POET AS SCIENTIST, THE POET AS SCIENTIST

Free JavaScripts provided
by The JavaScript Source

The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

Free JavaScripts provided
by The JavaScript Source

Form input - by Günter Born

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Were there any attempts to stop Napoleon from invading England, aside from divine intervention?

I believe the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805, in which Lord Nelson lost his life destroying the combined French and Spanish fleets was a rather critical, and highly successful attempt to stop Napoleon from invading England. You see, as Adolf Hitler also found out, in 1940, it’s very, very difficult to invade England without a navy, or, if your navy has been largely eliminated by the British, and the British control the seas, as was certainly the case following the Battle of Trafalgar. Large armies simply cannot swim across the English Channel. This fact has proved quite critical to British history, for many centuries now. https://www.quora.com/Were-there-any-attempts-to-stop-Napoleon-from-invading-England-aside-from-divine-intervention?show_editor=True

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home