Word: trafalgar
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...Robert K. Massie notes in Dreadnought (Random House; 1,007 pages; $35), the Portsmouth review marked "the high-water mark of British naval supremacy," which had gone virtually unchallenged since Admiral Horatio Nelson's victory over a French fleet at Trafalgar in 1805. During the latter years of the 19th century, however, France and Russia had constructed seemingly formidable armadas. More worrisome, Germany, under the prodding of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, was rapidly building a war fleet to protect its commercial interests and colonial empire. The naval rivalry between Britain and Germany led to an arms race that...
...ensuring that every adult, not just property owners, paid directly for local services. But the tax bore no relation to ability to pay; within a locality every adult was charged the same amount, although millions of poor people got rebates. Resentment boiled over into a major riot in Trafalgar Square...