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The Battle of Trafalgar by J. M. W. Turner shows the last three letters of the signal flying from the Victory. "England expects that every man will do his duty" was a signal sent by Vice-Admiral of the Royal Navy Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, from his flagship HMS Victory as the Battle of Trafalgar was about to commence on 21 October 1805.
Bucentaure was an 86-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, and the lead ship of her class.She was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Latouche Tréville, who died on board on 18 August 1804, and later of Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve as the flagship of the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.
The battle order was based on planned order of attack. [citation needed] Ships were assigned places in these orders by the commander, sometimes temporarily or even extemporaneously. Nelson used the order that was best momentarily. In stormy weather or other adverse conditions the commanders might not be able to control the order.
His father was Spratt Esq., of Ballybeg, near Mitcheltown and his brother-in-law was John Abel Ward, Esq., a judge in the Admiralty Court in Nevis. [3] After some years in the merchant service, he joined the navy as a first class volunteer. He was promoted midshipman in 1798 aboard HMS Bellona and he was at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801. [4]
The Battle of Trafalgar is an 1836 history painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. [1] It depicts the 1805 naval Battle of Trafalgar in which the Royal Navy led by Horatio Nelson defeated a combined Franco-Spanish fleet during the Napoleonic Wars .
"The order of sailing is to be the order of battle".(White, Colin (2002). The Nelson Encyclopaedia. Park House, Russell Gardens, London.: Chatham Publishing, Lionel Leventhal Limited. pp. 238–239. ISBN 1-86176-253-4.) Well well. If he often had them sail in order of battle, it was not necessarily THAT order of battle.
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Name: HMS Revenge: Ordered: 29 September 1796: Builder: Chatham Dockyard: Laid down: August 1800: Launched: 13 April 1805: Honours and awards: Participated in: Battle of Trafalgar: Fate: Broken up, 1849: General characteristics [1] Class and type: 74-gun third-rate ship of the line: Tons burthen: 1954 : Length: 181 ft 11 in (55.4 m) (gundeck ...