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    As more and more British ships entered the battle, the ships of the allied centre and rear were gradually overwhelmed. The allied van, after long remaining quiescent, made a futile demonstration and then sailed away. The British took 22 vessels of the Franco-Spanish fleet and lost none. Of all the ships at Trafalgar, Redoutable sustained the highest casualties with 478 killed and 81 wounded. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The aftermath of the battle Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The situation at ~ 5pm. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    This painting combines events from several times during the battle. Nelson's famous signal ("England expects that every man will do his duty") flies from the Victory (11:50); the top-mizzenmast falls (13:00); the Achille is on fire in the background (late afternoon) and the Redoutable sinks in the foreground (following day). Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The battle of Trafalgar, as seen from the starboard mizzen shrouds of HMS Victory. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    HMS Victory Spanish Ship Santisima Trinidad and HMS Victory Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    In the Leeward Squadron Belleisle was stricken into a wreck by Achille and the French Neptune. She was the second ship in the British lee column, and as such was engaged by eight Franco-Spanish ships. She was soon completely dismasted (the only British ship which suffered that fate), unable to manœuvre and largely unable to fight, as her sails blinded her batteries, but kept flying her flag for 45 minutes until the British ships behind her in the column came to her rescue. With 33 dead and 93 wounded, she was then towed to Gibraltar after the battle. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    Lord Nelson being shot on the quarterdeck of HMS Victory. The death of Lord Nelson in the cockpit of HMS Victory.  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The Redoutable at the battle of Trafalgar, between the Temeraire (on the left) and the Victory on the right. Already ravaged by incoming shot from the combined French and Spanish fleets as she approached the enemy line, HMS Victory found herself under intense attack from the French 3rd Rate 74-gun Redoutable. The two ships became entangled, grappling irons went across and the most terrible artillery battle commenced. Now the British three-decker, the 98-gun Temeraire appeared outboard of the Redoutable and began pouring further shot into her, the little French ship dwarfed by two mighty British vessels. But still she fought on, refusing to strike her colours. Of all the ships at Trafalgar, Redoutable sustained the highest casualties with 478 killed and 81 wounded. Depicted from left to right are HMS Temeraire, Redoutable and HMS Victory. HMS Temeraire fighting the French flagship Bucentaure (completely dismasted) at Trafalgar. Bucentaure is also being fired into by HMS Victory (behind her).  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    H.M.S. 'Victory' breaking the enemy line and raking the stern of the French flagship.  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, first through the line.  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    Nelson wore that day as usual, his Admiral’s frock-coat bearing on the left breast 4 stars of the different orders with which he was invested. Ornaments which rendered him so conspicuous a mark for the enemy were beheld with ominous apprehension by his officers; it could not be doubted but that his life would be particularly aimed at. They entreated him to change his dress, or cover his stars, but Nelson replied : ‘In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them’ During the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, it was shortly before Nelson was mortally wounded that a shot struck the fore brace bits on the quarter deck and passed between Nelson and Hardy. Both stopped and looked anxiously at each other then Nelson smiled and said, This is too warm work, Hardy, to last long. This illustration represents the point at which he said those words during the battle. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The beginning of the action. In the right foreground is the French ship ‘Bucentaure’ in starboard-bow view, with her mizzen mast and main topgallant mast shot away. In port-bow view and passing astern of her is the British ‘Neptune’, delivering raking fire. Astern of her and only half in the picture is the ‘Leviathan’ port-bow view. In the left foreground the ‘Santissima Trinidad’ is shown in port-bow view. Her main and mizzen masts and fore-topgallant mast are being shot away by the ‘Victory’, which is passing astern of her as she breaks the line. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    Nelson’s Column Nelson was outnumbered and outgunned, the enemy totalling nearly 30,000 men and 2,568 guns to his 17,000 men and 2,148 guns. The Franco-Spanish fleet also had six more ships of the line, and so could more readily combine their fire. There was no way for some of Nelson's ships to avoid being "doubled on" or even "trebled on".  As the two fleets drew closer, anxiety began to build among officers and sailors; one British sailor described the approach thus: "During this momentous preparation, the human mind had ample time for meditation, for it was evident that the fate of England rested on this battle". The battle progressed largely according to Nelson's plan. At 11:45, Nelson sent the flag signal, "England expects that every man will do his duty". Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    Known to history as "The Nelson Touch," the battle plan that the British commander devised broke with traditional naval practice. Standard tactics of the time called for enemy ships to form opposing parallel lines and blast one another with the cannon that lined the sides of their ships. Nelson formulated a different approach. He would divide his fleet into two parallel lines aimed directly at the middle of his opponent's force with the objective of splitting that force into two sections. With the enemy's ships split into two sections, Nelson would concentrate his attack on the isolated rear section. Nelson himself, as Vice-Admiral of the White Squadron, led the Weather Division of the fleet in H.M.S. “Victory” whilst Collingwood, as Vice-Admiral of the Blue, led the Leeward Division in his flagship “Royal Sovereign”. As the fleets closed for action, “Royal Sovereign” drew ahead and broke the enemy line just after noon, almost half-an-hour before “Victory” was able to do so. As this extremely unusual view from astern of the fleet shows only too clearly, both British columns were subjected to volley after volley of enemy fire before either of them could get into positions from where they could reply. The two British columns going into action Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). As part of an overall French plan to combine all French and allied fleets to take control of the English Channel and thus enable Napoleon's Grande Armée to invade England, French and Spanish fleets under French Admiral Villeneuve sailed from the port of Cádiz in the south of Spain in October 1805. They encountered the British fleet under Admiral Lord Nelson, recently assembled to meet this threat, in the Atlantic Ocean along the southwest coast of Spain, off Cape Trafalgar. Villeneuve was uncertain about engaging the British, and the Franco-Spanish fleet failed to organize fully. In contrast, Nelson was decisive, directing the British fleet into two columns sailing straight into the enemy to pierce its wavering lines. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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