HMS Victory, warship, Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson, Lord Nelson, Hampshire, Portsmouth, maritime, rigging, crow's nest, mast, ship, English, historic, history heritage, canon, major English tourist attraction, England, Europe, IPSV5165
HMS Victory, warship, Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson, Lord Nelson, Hampshire, Portsmouth, maritime, rigging, crow's nest, mast, ship, English, historic, history heritage, canon, major English tourist attraction, England, Europe, IPSV5165
HMS Victory, warship, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, Europe, Lord Nelson, Admiral Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar, transom, living quarters, historic, heritage, IPSV5165
Maritime Transport HMS Victory, Nelson, flagship, sailing ship, man of war, windows, stern, rigging, mast, lamps, black, cream, carving, ship, sky, blue, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Royal Navy
HMS Victory, painting by Swaine, Swain, dated 1793, British warship, Battle of Trafalgar, English naval history, ship, ships Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
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HMS Victory, painting by Swaine, Swain, dated 1793, British warship, Battle of Trafalgar, English naval history, ship, ships, Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
HMS Victory, Lower Gun Deck, Portsmouth, Nelson flagship British War Ship, ships, guns, cannon, interior, Hampshire, England, English history, Royal Navy, naval
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HMS Victory, Lower Gun Deck, Portsmouth, Nelson flagship British War Ship, ships, guns, cannon, interior
Victorian, chromolithography, popular print, Admiral Horatio Nelson, Death, HMS Victory, battle of Trafalgar, hero, Royal Navy, warfare, maritime, naval, engagement, C. Reed, publisher,
battle; blue sky; boat; bow; dockyard; England; historical; history; HMS Victory; Honi Soit; mast; Portsmouth; ship; sunshine; Union Flag; Union Jack; warship; 2/12/2000; 163230
engraving; portrait; Cuthbert Collingwood; Baron Collingwood; Admiral; navy; naval uniform; telescope; maritime; American War of Independence; Royal Navy; Horatio Nelson; HMS Pelican; HMS Mediator; HMS Barfleur; HMS Excellent; HMS Royal Sovereign
British; naval; victory; Napoleonic; war; history; aboard; HMS Victory; Admiral Lord Nelson; Battle of Trafalgar; sea; battle; 1805; ships; fighting; guns
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The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). The battle was the most decisive British naval victory of the war. Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under French Admiral Pierre Villeneuve off the south-west coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar. The Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships, without a single British vessel being lost. The British victory spectacularly confirmed the naval supremacy that Britain had established during the past century and was achieved in part through Nelson's departure from the prevailing naval tactical orthodoxy, which involved engaging an enemy fleet in a single line of battle parallel to the enemy to facilitate signalling in battle and disengagement, and to maximize fields of fire and target areas. Nelson instead divided his smaller force into two columns directed perpendicularly against the larger enemy fleet, with decisive results. Nelson was mortally wounded during the battle, becoming one of Britain's greatest war heroes. The commander of the joint French and Spanish forces, Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve, was captured along with his ship Bucentaure. Spanish Admiral Federico Gravina escaped with the remnant of the fleet, and succ
