October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
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English
Figure 9.9 The ‘David and Goliath’ story
The David and Goliath story is repeated every day in the 21st century. In summary, Nelson won a famous ‘David and Goliath’ victory at the Battle of Trafalgar over an enemy with superior numbers. Let’s say that the enemy had 50 ships against Nelson’s 40 ships. What Nelson did was to split his ships into two groups of 16 and one of 8. The 8 ships attacked the centre of the 50 so that Nelson’s 32 ships could attack the enemy’s 25. They then re-joined what was left of their own 8 and finished off the enemy.
Yes, of course, this is a highly fictional and romanticized version ...
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