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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Napoleon Stows Away on HMS Victory (ft. Nick Horseman)
Description: HMS Victory, 1805. Admiral Nelson is preparing for the Battle of Trafalgar, and Nick Horseman has just boarded as "Baron Cuthbert Wanklethorpe" — a name he insists is the most British thing imaginable. His mission: befriend Nelson, learn his naval tactics, and turn them into a board game. The kind of ambition that gets you either a knighthood or a hanging.
Nick chose this era for personal reasons: his three-year-old son is obsessed with Nelson, has books about him, has visited his tomb at St Paul's, and rates him above Batman. So naturally, Dad's plan is to get on Ne...