Quite a unique battle, most famed for the feat of Captain Guingret from Foy's command, crossing the river nakedness! For more, check out @Caseshotpublish book 📖

Napoleon used this as an excuse to flee/abandon his army from Russia. In typical Bonapartist style, those involved were executed.

4 years ago, a trip to see the Naval Ensign of the San Ildefonso on display, for Trafalgar Day at the National Maratime Museum. Removed when the ship was captured at Trafalgar, it was displayed at Nelson's funeral & still shows the scars of the battle.

“The Immortal Memory” : Nelson’s Coat from the Battle of Trafalgar On this day, 21 October 1805, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson led the Royal Navy to what is probably its most famous victory, the Battle of Trafalgar. But it came at the highest personal cost. The coat pictured, now preserved at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, was worn by Nelson aboard HMS Victory during the battle. Look closely, and you’ll see a small, hole on the left shoulder. That mark was made by the musket ball fired by a French marine from the Redoutable. It struck Nelson around 1:15 p.m., passed through his shoulder and spine, and lodged in his lower back. He was carried below decks, where he would die a few hours later, learning before he died that his fleet had triumphed against the Franco‐Spanish fleet. Nelson’s death sent shockwaves across Britain. Trafalgar ensured British naval dominance for a century, but it also transformed Nelson from a national hero into an immortal legend. The phrase “The Immortal Memory” is still toasted by the Royal Navy. (📸Photo my own, Marcus Cribb)

Bigger birthday... Since we don't actually know how old Rusty is, we are calling today his "offical" birthday to help keep count. Meaning I've roughly had him just 36 months since his rescue and he is 4 (but probably 5 if we're being realistic) based off what a few vets have said. I can't believe that he's been with me for 2.5 years, cannot imagine a life with this big red adventure buddy, with his mix of sad face and huge smiles, a love of swimming and tennis balls, so we made sure he got both over the weekend. And some more recent adventures pictured.

Born #OnThisDay 19 October 1748, in Perthshire, Thomas Graham, later Lord Lynedoch. Growing up in Scotland, he attended Oxford University & spent years living in Europe too, before returning to Scotland. He would go on to be one of Wellington's right hand Generals

Two years ago at Culloden. Safe to say, I was enjoying the (Volunteering) experience with Head of NTS Archeology & @ProfTonyPollard Stayed late, because with Tony Pollard is running round saying this is great archeology, it must be! (Impacted musket ball & lead strips)

The Battle of Fuengirola, 15 Oct 1810, was an engagement between a small force from of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Moorish fortress ar Fuengirola against a much larger Anglo-Spanish expeditionary corps under Gen Andrew Blayney. The Allied force was repulsed & Blayney captured(!).

Fought #OnThisDay 13-14 October 1810, the Battle of Sobral. Under Masséna, encountering the Lines of Torres Vedras, Junot's force probed forwards, they pushed back skirmish lines & seized an outpost, but were quickly ejected from the position by a British counterattack.

9 October 1810, the British cavalry rearguard fought successfully to slow down the French vanguard advancing on the Lines of Torres Vedras, in rain. By the day's end, the leading French infantry had caught up with their cavalry, the British moved to Alemquer & into the Lines.

#WIPwednesday Warlord Games Epic Revolution, or 1745 Jacobite Manchester Regiment for my Jacobite Uprising campaign. Note the sash is greenstuff, for a bit of tartan, to show his allegiance.

Born #OnThisDay 7 October 1775, Sir Denis Pack, in Kilkenny. Son of Priest in an Anglo-Irish family, he served in Flanders, Cape Colony, South America before the Peninsula. He fought from Roliça to Toulouse. At Waterloo he commanded the 9th Brigade of Picton's 5th Division.

Died #OnThisDay 4 Oct 1842, aged 70, the last Governor of Gravesend & Tilbury Fort, Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole. He was MP in the Irish & British Parliaments. He held the post of Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury from 1818 till his death in 1842 & was the last to hold this post.