The Battle of Trafalgar

After days of street-to-street fighting, the troops of the German 9th Army had secured the Hungerford railway bridge to establish a foothold on the North side of the Thames. Despite capturing the nearby Charing Cross station, Axis troops were unable …

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After days of street-to-street fighting, the troops of the German 9th Army had secured the Hungerford railway bridge to establish a foothold on the North side of the Thames. Despite capturing the nearby Charing Cross station, Axis troops were unable to deploy by rail into the British capital due to near constant mortar fire onto the station from the vicinity of Trafalgar Square. Despite the tenuous hold that German forces had on the area, on the 29th of October local commanders received an order directly from Generalfeldmarschall von Rundstedt to take and hold the square. Although a valid tactical objective it was not without considerable risk, and the source of the order led many German officers to believe that it came from the Fúhrer himself, more concerned with seizing political and cultural trophies than with the soldiers' lives.

Trafalgar Square, London, England

Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion, was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France, Adolf Hitler, the German Führer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, hoped the British government would seek a peace agreement and he reluctantly considered invasion only as a last resort if all other options failed.

Wikipedia: Operation Sea Lion

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