What Tom Holland has said about Battle of Sinop
1 quote · 1 episode · Nov 9, 2026
Tom Holland, English actor cast as Telemachus, has been quoted on Battle of Sinop once in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on November 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Holland, following Trevor Royle, says Sinope demonstrated how vulnerable wooden warships had become to explosive shells.
“the attack at sinope spectacularly demonstrates how vulnerable wooden ships, so ships of the kind that had won the Battle of Trafalgar”
The Rest Is History: 721. The Charge of the Light Brigade: Outbreak of The Crimean War (Part 1) (Nov 9, 2026) · Listen from 39:11
Episodes
721. The Charge of the Light Brigade: Outbreak of The Crimean War (Part 1)The Rest Is History · Nov 9, 2026 · 1 h 10 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open a series on the Charge of the Light Brigade, profiling Lords Cardigan and Lucan and tracing the Crimean War's origins.
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