Word: trafalgar
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...nightfall of Oct. 21, 1805, the battle off Trafalgar was all but over. Admiral Lord Nelson, who paid for the victory with his life, had become forever the great captain of the seagoing British Empire. But to one commander in the shattered French fleet, there seemed at least a chance of honorable escape. Accompanied by three French ships of the line, Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley sheeted home his sails and set off in his flagship, the 74-gun Duguay-Trouin, for the safety of a French Atlantic port. Badly scarred by gunfire from Nelson's own ship Victory...
...London, parades were banned, but Laborites and Communists traded invective in crowded Trafalgar Square. Then they wrapped up their banners and went home. " 'Ow could you start a revolution like this?" muttered a disillusioned cockney...
When the guns stopped firing off Cape Trafalgar in October 1805, a young seaman sat down and wrote to his father: "Our dear Admiral Nelson is killed...
...Trafalgar Trust. Many an Englishman decided then & there that Nelson would never put to sea again. But the Lords of the Admiralty knew better. One-eyed, one-armed, rheumatic and bubbling with enthusiasm, Nelson left bed and boudoir and pursued the French fleet with his old, extraordinary combination of "unexampled patience" and fanatical excitement. "Nelson confides that every man will do his duty" was his original cocky message to his fleet, but he "cordially approved" when an officer suggested that "England expects . . ." would be more to the point...
...Trafalgar, contrary to popular legend, he did not dress up in his showiest costume and expose himself on the most suicidal part of the deck. He merely wore his usual frock coat and quietly paced the upper deck-until a musketeer, lodged only 50 feet away in the rigging of the Redoubtable, shot him in the spine. Of the mass of tributes to Nelson, two stand out. One is that of a dying Trafalgar enemy, Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other...