Happy Trafalgar Day!

Today is the 201st anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, in which Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson's English fleet defeated French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte's fleet, near Cape Trafalgar. It was a resounding victory, but not without cost: Admiral Nelson perished on that day.

England expects that every man will do his duty.-Nelson's signal to his fleet,at Cape Trafalgar, 21 October 1805

Read the story and see how the signal flags would have looked here and here.

Nelson's famous signal "England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty" was made from the poop deck of the Victory at 11.15 a.m. on 21 October 1805. This was just minutes before the commencement of the Battle of Trafalgar.

I posted quite a lot about it last year, the 200th Anniversary. Here are the links to my posts:

• How Dare the British Have Won?

• A Question About Trafalgar Square

• Nelson Remembered

• Extraordinary

• News of Nelson

• Quote of the Day

• Nelson-Fever

• Better to Fight

• Nelson’s Prayer

• The Battle of Trafalgar

• 200 Years

• Trafalgar 200 Schedule

• An Appeal to Individual Valor

• The Opposing Fleets at Noon

• HMS Victory

• Nelson Resources

• England Expects

• The Death of Nelson

• After the Battle

• Collingwood’s Dispatch

• Nelson’s Titles

• A Monument to a Hero

• Nelson Remembered: 21 October 2005

• A Toast to Nelson

• Last Words

• Quote of the Day

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