In detail: The Battle of Trafalgar
Place in history

Britain is marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005.

The victory sealed Horatio Lord Nelson's status as a national hero, ended the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions to invade England and led to more than 100 years of British naval domination.

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