Bill Kristol @BillKristol
I thought of making a pseudo-deep point about the name of Nelson's first ship, the HMS Raisonnable, and what it suggests about the British Enlightenment. But it was named after a captured French ship. Which does I guess suggest the Ancien Regime wanted to claim to be reasonable. — PolitiTweet.org
On This Day RN @OnthisdayRN
#OnThisDay 1758 Horatio Nelson was born in #Norfolk He joined @RoyalNavy as an Ordinary Seaman at 12 years old in H… https://t.co/vnULmaEohr
