Nelson's words written three days before death at Battle of Trafalgar A previously unpublished letter by Admiral Lord Nelson three days before the Battle of Trafalgar has emerged 220 years on ...

Tonight the Royal Navy celebrates Trafalgar Night. Two hundred and nineteen years ago today, Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson decisively beat the combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of ...

A depiction of the bloody Battle of Trafalgar, which took place on October 21, 1805 'Famously, Nelson ordered his ships to form two lines and sail at the single line of French and Spanish ships.

Admiral Lord Nelson’s famous last words may not have been “kiss me, Hardy,” according to a newly unearthed letter. Instead, the British naval hero is claimed to have declared, “Thanks be ...

Nelson was shot and fatally wounded in this duel with Redoubtable and it was only the intervention of Temeraire that decided the battle in the English favour. Gardner will go down in history as ...

Nelson, already missing an eye and an arm from previous battles, was killed by a French sniper in the epic battle. He was 47. Effort to avoid show of triumphalism ...

Aboard the Victory, off Cadiz, on Oct. 9, 1805, Lord Nelson issued his Memorandum for the decisive battle that was to be fought twelve days later off Cape Trafalgar.

Six Bermudian sailors fought alongside Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. George Cole, Christopher Baiscomb, William Johnson, Jacob Simmons, John Tucker and Francis Wellman ...