The Battle of Trafalgar

 

Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson

 aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships.

 

 

The Victory Breaks the French Line. The Battle of Trafalgar naval engagement 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. The battle was the most decisive naval victory of the war.