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    Toasting Trafalgar

    Sep 19, 2019 5 minutes
    WRITTEN BY ROGER FIELD
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY HENRY HUNT

    We tend to know the outline story of the Battle of Trafalgar when, on 21 October 1805, off Cape Trafalgar on the south-west coast of Spain, the British fleet, commanded by Admiral Lord Nelson, beat – thrashed would be a better word, we sank 22 of theirs and they sank none of ours – the combined French and Spanish fleet and, in so doing, ensured that France would not be able to invade Great Britain.

    “Nelson planned this battle over two dinners aboard his flagship Victory”

    Nelson planned this battle over two dinners aboard his flagship Victory with his captains. What was radical about this particular plan was that, instead of engaging in single line abreast where each fleet sailed in parallel and knocked 10 shades of nasty stuff out of the other – a problem for Nelson as the enemy had more ships, men

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