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Trafalgar

21 October 1805 · off Cape Trafalgar, Spain
Ships lost
Britain0/ 27
France & Spain0/ 33
1 hull = 1 ship · crews in the aftermath

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The Nelson touch

By 4:45 the firing dies. Eighteen prizes; Villeneuve a prisoner; not one British ship lost — and Nelson dead in Victory’s cockpit. The storm that follows wrecks most of the prizes on this coast.

Britain — 449 killed · 1,217 wounded · 0 ships lost
France & Spain — ~4,400 killed · 2,545 wounded · ~8,000 captured
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