Article: Let's celebrate this victory. If the French don't like it, they can go home on the Eurostar - from Waterloo.

Byline: MAX HASTINGS

ADMIRAL Sir Alan West, First Sea Lord and head of the Royal Navy, is a fine sailor and an uncommonly nice man, who had a frigate sunk under him in the Falklands War. This week, however, he has caused generations of sea dogs to turn in their graves.

Describing next week's grand Fleet Review, he said: 'I don't want a great triumphalist thing for the Battle of Trafalgar.

That's not the point of it.

Trafalgar is a fact of history, but this is a wonderful opportunity for defence diplomacy.' Thus at Spithead, for this 200th anniversary, rival tall ships which re- enact a naval battle of the Napoleonic period (or, as we ...

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