Battle of Trafalgar

The great naval battle, to be known to history as the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), was soon to be joined. Admiral Villeneuve proudly surveyed his powerful fleet of 33 ships stately sailing in single file in the light breeze. 

While Admiral Villeneuve was doing his calculations about the outcome of the battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson was also doing some thinking. His fleet was outnumbered 33 to 27, so it didn t take a rocket scientist to predict the outcome of the battle if the... 

The 1940 Battle of the North Atlantic is about to begin. The German submarine fleet, under the command of sinister Admiral von Dietrich, consists of 200 U-boats at the beginning of the battle. The British destroyer fleet, under the command of heroic Admiral Steadman (a direct descendant of the intelligence officer responsible for the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar), consists of 150 ships at the beginning of the battle. The rate of destruction of submarines by destroyers is equal to the rate of destruction of destroyers by submarines 0.25 ships/week/ship. 

How did Admiral Nelson return to England after the Battle of Trafalgar ... 

Aboard the HMS Victory, in a barrel of brandy. Nelson was killed in 1805, during the Battle of Trafalgar, but his men didn t want to feed him to the fish. Returning the body to England, however, presented them with a challenge until it occurred to one seaman that they could pickle the admiral. 

Although the French naval architecture and shipbuilding was usually superior to the British during the eighteenth century, their cast iron naval cannons were generally less reliable than those used by the British and the bursting of the French cannons was influential in the 1805 battle of Trafalgar. 

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