Trafalgar Day
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Trafalgar Day is the celebration of the victory won by the Royal Navy, commanded by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, over the combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 18
Turner, The Battle of Trafalgar
Greenwich Pensioners Commemorating Trafalgar by John Burnet, 1837
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham lays a wreath at Birmingham's statue of Lord Nelson on Trafalgar Day 2007.
Flags fly from the Nelson Monument on Calton Hill in Edinburgh on Trafalgar Day 2013
Trafalgar Cemetery
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The Trafalgar Cemetery is a cemetery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Formerly known as the Southport Ditch Cemetery, it occupies a small area of land just to the south of the city wall
Trafalgar Day
…been destroyed in 1966, and in 2015 residents organised their first ever "Trafalgar Day". In Gibraltar, the Trafalgar Day service takes place at the Trafalgar Cemetery, where the senior Naval Commander reads an extract from the Gibraltar Chronicle newspaper, the first periodical to report on the battle. Some sailors…
Trafalgar Cemetery
Northwest corner of Trafalgar Cemetery, adjacent to the Southport Gates
Gravestone of Captain Thomas Norman of the Royal Marine Corps and HMS Mars (1794)
Statue of Lord Horatio Nelson unveiled by Peter Caruana in front of the South Bastion in 2005