It won’t come as any surprise that there are stories about smaller, determined military forces battling and winning against ...
But Britain had blockaded most of his ports with his ships in them. After a while, Napoleon gave up on invading Britain and his army headed east. On 19 October, Napoleon ordered Admiral Pierre ...
HMS Victory has survived the cannonballs of Napoleon's navy, being rammed by another ... naval hero Horatio Nelson's death ...
In 1805 Admiral Lord Nelson attacked and defeated the Napoleonic Navy in the Battle of Trafalgar. By 1806 the Act banning any slave trade between British merchants and foreign colonies was ...
After the Battle of Trafalgar he was ... With the might of Napoleon's army at its throat, Sweden was forced to declare war on Britain and fired on British ships. Saumarez worked with the Swedish ...