Nelson: Glory at Trafalgar (TRIH ep 613, part 6)
1805 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History narrates the climactic Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) and the death of Horatio Nelson aboard HMS Victory. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook reconstruct the run-up to battle, Nelson’s tactics, the atmosphere aboard ship, key officers (Hardy, Blackwood, Pascoe, Collingwood) and the bloody close-quarters fighting that produced a decisive British victory.
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