TRAFALGAR DAY
Perhaps the most glorious victory in the whole of British naval history, the Battle of Trafalgar, was won by the British fleet under the command of Admiral Nelson against the combined French and Spanish fleets 130 years ago to-day. The day commemorates, too, the death of Nelson, who was fatally wounded before the issue was finally decided. With the famous signal floating from the mast of the Victory—- “ England expects that every man will do his duty”—Nelson advanced against the French admiral, Villcneuvre, and before long the Victory had broker Villeneuvre’s line. About one o’clock Nelson was fatally wounded, but the British victory blotted out France as a great power on the ocean, and Napoleon never tried afterward to meet England on the sea. That view was hardly shared in 1805, however, when England was plunged into mourning at the news of Nelson's death.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 262, 21 October 1935, Page 3
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