Battle of Trafalgar
naval battle · 1805 AD
Battle of Trafalgar, a naval battle recorded 1805 AD: its site mapped, cited to 1 source, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
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At a glance
- Kind
- naval battle
- Date
- 21 October 1805 AD
- War
- Napoleonic Wars
- Side 1
- United Kingdom — led by Horatio Nelson, Cuthbert Collingwood
- Side 2
- France — led by Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Federico Gravina
- Result
- British victory; Nelson killed
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1805 AD | — | high confidence | no observation date recorded | — |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)