Battle of Trafalgar
Battle of the Trafalgar campaign
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a fleet action fought on 21 October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar between the Royal Navy and a combined fleet of the French and Spanish navies during the Trafalgar campaign of the War of the Third Coalition. As part of Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom, the French and Spanish navies planned to take control of the English Channel and provide the French invasion army with safe passage to England. A Franco-Spanish fleet under French Vice-admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve sailed from Cádiz on 18 October 1805 and three days later encountered a British fleet under Vice-Admiral of the White Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson in the Atlantic along southwestern Spain. Nelson sailed his fleet directly at the Franco-Spanish line of battle's flank in two columns, hoping to break the line into pieces. Villeneuve foresaw Nelson's tactic but failed to prepare for it; the crews of the French and Spanish ships in contrast to their British counterparts were inexperienced...
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