Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
Hanging with History
1799 Bruix, Algeciras and the British Nightmare
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 165
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"I was between the devil and the deep sea."
The Royal Navy's nightmare was that a powerful French fleet would break out of blockade and fall upon inferior blockading squadrons down the coast, destroying Royal Navy squadrons while a combined Franco-Spanish fleet only gets larger and larger.
Bruix almost pulled it off. He arrived at Cadiz. Admiral Lord Keith was blockading with 15 ships of the line. Bruix had 25 ships of the line and there were 21 Spanish ships in Cadiz, ready to sail. The French and English lines of battle parallel each other. Keith determined to keep the French out of Cadiz. The French have the weather gauge in a rising westerly gale.