Battle of Trafalgar
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The Battle of Trafalgar was a fleet action which took place on 21 October 1805 between the Royal Navy and a combined fleet of the French and Spanish navies during the War of the Third Coalition. As pa
The Battle of Trafalgar Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, 1836
Vice Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, by Lemuel Francis Abbott
Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, the French admiral
Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad, nicknamed La Real, was a ship of the line of the Spanish Navy which was the largest warship in the world when launched. She originally mounted 112 guns, which
Battle of Trafalgar
…having only 27 ships of the line to the 33 of Villeneuve's fleet which included the largest warship in either fleet, the Spanish ship of the line Santísima Trinidad. To address this imbalance, Nelson sailed his fleet directly at the allied battle line's flank in two columns, hoping to break the line into pieces…
1913 illustration of Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad
Infante don Pelayo going to rescue Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad at Battle of Cape St. Vincent
HMS Terpsichore attacking Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad on 1 March 1797
Model of Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad at the Naval Museum of Madrid