The London Gazette’s report on the Battle of Trafalgar, at which Horatio Nelson’s Britis
The London Gazette’s report on the Battle of Trafalgar, at which Horatio Nelson’s British fleet defeated Napoleon’s fleet in 1805. The battle resulted in Nelson’s death (as the article puts it, “the ever to be lamented death of … Nelson… [who] fell in the Hour of Victory”), but damaged the French fleet to the point where it would be unable to launch an invasion of the British isles -- source link
#history#newspapers#napoleon