Tuesday 28 April 2009

How Many More Secrets Are To Be Revealed About UK History?

it what many consider to be Nelson's most important battle, the Battle of the Nile in 1798 was one of Nelson's most significant clashes with Napoleon, not only did this battle halt Napoleon's ambitions for Egypt, but it was one of the most decisive victories over the French fleet, records show only two of their ships survived the encounter while not a single British ship was lost,
speaking of lost, this clump of seemingly randomly placed trees on Salisbury Plain has come to light, planted across three-quarters of a mile of Wiltshire countryside, a series of tree clumps mark the positions of British and French ships during the Battle of the Nile, but despite being one of the largest memorials of its kind in the world, the secret of the Nile Clumps has until now been known only to a few locals and military historians,
the living memorial lies about a mile east of Stonehenge, it is thought to have been planted by landowner Baron Douglas of Amesbury some years after Nelson's death in 1805, at the request of Captain Thomas Hardy and Nelson's mistress, Lady Hamilton, it is believed there were originally 31 clumps, representing the 17 French and 14 British ships, but only 19 remain after the rest were felled or blown over during the centuries, I wonder what other little know tributes from our past have yet to be "rediscovered?"

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