Bucentaure was an 86-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, and the lead ship of her class. She was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Latouche Tréville, who died on board on 18 August 1804, and later of
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Bucentaure at Trafalgar
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
French ship Bucentaure (1803)
…Tréville, who died on board on 18 August 1804, and later of Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve as the flagship of the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. The French Bucentaure's figurehead depicted a bucentaur: a mythical, centaur-like creature with the body of a bull and the head of a man…
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