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Battle of Trafalgar
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freed the Spanish fleet. Battle of Trafalgar, Oct. 21, 1805.He then sailed across the Battle of Atlantic and back again, in the hope of drawing all British ships away from the Channel. After a long



chase Lord Nelson met him off the Spanish coast, and won the battle of Trafalgar in October, 1805. It was almost a dead calm all the morning as the English ships