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Battle of Trafalgar
OCTOBER 2005
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Commanding History
Photograph by Robert Clark
The masts of H.M.S. Victory pierce a morning sky in Portsmouth, England. As flagship of the British fleet on October 21, 1805, Victory and 26 other ships bested a combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships off Spain's Cape Trafalgar. Today she remains an icon of the battle that sank Napoleon's ambitions to rule the seas. Yet Britain lost a revered commander, Adm. Horatio Nelson, when a musket ball struck him as he stood on the quarterdeck of Victory. The battered ship brought his body back to England, where he was given a state funeral, one of the largest in British history.
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