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About 1,500 British seamen were killed or wounded in the Battle of Trafalgar, and Admiral Horatio Nelson was mortally wounded. In the Spanish and French fleet, 14,000 men were lost, of whom half were prisoners of war, and Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve was captured.
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- The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought between British and French-led forces on October 21, 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars. It too...
- Admiral Horatio Nelson led the British fleet and Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve led a fleet of French and Spanish ships at the Battle of Trafalgar.
- The Battle of Trafalgar was important because it established British naval supremacy for more than 100 years. The battle also shattered Napoleon’s...
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, commanding the British fleet, devised an ambitious plan of attack, which involved ambushing the Franco-Spanish fleet off the Cape of Trafalgar, in south-west Spain. His attack was to prove a decisive victory for the British. Discover more about the build-up to the battle.
On receiving this intelligence Lord Barham was alive to the enemy strategy and immediately ordered Admiral Cornwallis to combine his squadron with that of Vice Admiral Calder off Ferrol and to stretch out thirty to forty leagues into the Atlantic to block the French from entering the Channel.
Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson lost his life at the height of the battle, shot by a marksman. Nelson’s body was preserved in alcohol for the long journey home and arrived at the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich (now the Old Royal Naval College) on a cold and rainy Christmas Eve, 24 December 1805.
On October 20th 1805, the French and Spanish fleets put to sea and off the southern coast of Spain the Battle of Trafalgar took place. This was to be Nelson’s last and most famous victory. Before the battle, Nelson sent his famous signal to the Fleet, “England expects that every man will do his duty”.
Nov 9, 2009 · The naval battle of Trafalgar, which took place in the Atlantic Ocean off the southwest coast of Spain on October 21, 1805, was a pivotal moment in the Napoleonic wars that helped seal Napoleon’s...
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Feb 9, 2010 · In one of the most decisive naval battles in history, a British fleet under Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off the coast of...
