Rule Britannia
I have just completed the best book i've ever read in my life. For fellow nerds who are interested, it's titled 'Trafalgar' by Nicholas Best and it depicts the event that is The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Just as extarct from the book...the very last paragarph of the book in the epilogue section.
"Behind them, just across the water, the fisheman and ploughboys of the Walmer Home Guard patrolled the beach where Caesar had landed, wondering if rifles would be delievered to them anytime soon. Royal Navy warships patrolled further out, defending the approaches to shore. And the Channel rolled ever onwards, with its tides and cross-currents, its shifting sands and treacherous undertows, its unpredictable swells and atrocious, never to be reiled on weather.
To the British, it is the most beautiful stretch of water in the world."
Just as extarct from the book...the very last paragarph of the book in the epilogue section.
"Behind them, just across the water, the fisheman and ploughboys of the Walmer Home Guard patrolled the beach where Caesar had landed, wondering if rifles would be delievered to them anytime soon. Royal Navy warships patrolled further out, defending the approaches to shore. And the Channel rolled ever onwards, with its tides and cross-currents, its shifting sands and treacherous undertows, its unpredictable swells and atrocious, never to be reiled on weather.
To the British, it is the most beautiful stretch of water in the world."
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