The death of Admiral Lord Nelson on HMS Victory on the 21 October 1805 during the Battle of Trafalgar. Fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under the French Admiral Villeneuve in the Atlantic Ocean off the southwest coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar, the Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships, without a single British vessel lost

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Location: Cape Trafalgar, Spain
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
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