HISTORY: Horatio Nelson, Arthur Phillip and the birth of Australia*

Warren Reed spent 10 years as an intelligence officer with the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), serving in Asia and the Middle East. This article is based on the Trafalgar Day Address that he delivered on October 16, 2013, to a meeting in Adelaide of the Seven Seas Club of Australia Inc. When we think of Nelson as a British naval hero two centuries ago, Napoleonic France looms large. It was a combined French-Spanish force that Nelson thrashed at Trafalgar in 1805. Horatio Ne…

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