History Vault
A universal history knowledge graph. Every era. Every civilization. Obsessive primary-source depth.
Current focus: Horatio Nelson and the Age of Sail (1750–1815).
This vault is a long-term passion project — a rigorously sourced, densely cross-linked reference. Every note has a source, every wikilink is intentional, every contested fact is flagged. Built in plain markdown; published via Quartz.
Selected Notes
People — Royal Navy
- Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview — Britain’s greatest naval commander
- Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory — Nelson’s flag captain at Trafalgar
- Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography — second-in-command at Trafalgar; “minister at sea”
People — French and Spanish
- Villeneuve Pierre-Charles — French Admiral — commander of the Combined Fleet at Trafalgar
Battles
- Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview — Nelson’s “Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates”
- Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview — destruction of the French Mediterranean fleet at Aboukir
- Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview — Nelson breaks the Armed Neutrality of the North
- Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview — the decisive engagement of the Age of Sail
Ships
- HMS Victory — Overview — Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar; preserved at Portsmouth
Era
- Age of Sail — Era Overview — c. 1650–1815, the wooden warship era
- Royal Navy — Institutional Overview — the world’s largest navy in 1805
Browse by Domain
People & Conflict
- MOC_Persons — biographical notes on commanders, leaders, scientists, cultural figures
- MOC_Conflicts — naval battles, land battles, campaigns, sieges
- MOC_Military_Forces — navies, armies, tactics, ranks, logistics
- MOC_Fortifications_Siegecraft — forts, coastal defenses, siege engineering
Hardware & Technology
- MOC_Weapons_Technology — ordnance, small arms, gunpowder, ammunition
- MOC_Ships_Maritime — individual ships, warship classes, naval architecture
- MOC_Uniforms_Equipment — naval dress, army uniforms, medals, flags
World & Context
- MOC_Geography_Places — ports, battlefields, sea lanes, cities, climate
- MOC_States_Empires — European powers, colonial empires, diplomacy
- MOC_Era_Context — Age of Sail, Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Modern
Ideas & Systems
- MOC_Politics_Governance — government, ideology, propaganda, law
- MOC_Science_Knowledge — navigation, cartography, engineering, natural philosophy
- MOC_Communications_Signals — signal systems, espionage, codebreaking
- MOC_Religion_Church — institutional religion, religion and war
Economics & Society
- MOC_Economics_Commerce — trade routes, war finance, prize money, industry
- MOC_Food_Provisioning — naval victualling, army provisioning, disease, famine
- MOC_Culture_Society — daily life, medicine, class, art, women and gender
Memory & Evidence
- MOC_Legacy_Historiography — commemoration, myth-making, museums, popular culture
- MOC_Primary_Documents — letters, official records, newspapers, maps, memoirs
Source: github.com/AXIA-Enterprises/history-vault. Published via Quartz.