A hand drawn map by Admiral Lord Nelson showing his plan to defeat the French and Spanish navies at the Battle of Trafalgar has been discovered.

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 Trafalgar.

Sievers, a master-at-arms on HMS Belleisle, is reported to have fought in the battle, but he was not present at the death of ...

LORD Nelson did not say “Kiss me, Hardy” as he died, says a newly found account of the Battle of Trafalgar. Instead he said the less dramatic: “Thanks be to God but I have lived this day and ...

Join us as the Daily Express live blogs about the Battle of Trafalgar, when Admiral Nelson took on the combined navies of France and Spain 219 years ago as if it were happening today.

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. The great Admiral warned his ...

A hand drawn map by Admiral Lord Nelson showing his plan to defeat the French and Spanish navies at the Battle of Trafalgar has been discovered. The sketch shows his plan to split his fleet into ...

LORD Nelson did not say “Kiss me, Hardy” as he died, says a newly found account of the Battle of Trafalgar. Instead he said the less dramatic: “Thanks be to God but I have lived this day and ...

Admiral Nelson’s actual final words as he died at the Battle of Trafalgar finally ‘revealed’ Letter also suggests Nelson was shot twice and not once as once thought ...

A hand drawn map by Admiral Lord Nelson showing his plan to defeat the French and Spanish navies at the Battle of Trafalgar has been discovered. The sketch shows his plan to split his fleet into ...

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 ...