HMS Malta (1800)
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HMS Malta was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously served with the French Navy as the Tonnant-class Guillaume Tell, but was captured in the Mediterranean in 1800
Guillaume Tell (second from left) at the action of 31 March 1800
Admiral Sir Robert Calder's action off Cape Finisterre, 23 July 1805, by William Anderson
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
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Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve was a French Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was in command of a Franco-Spanish fleet whic
1850 portrait of Villeneuve
1805 cartoon of Villenueve onboard HMS Euryalus after Trafalgar