On 11 October 1805, just ten days before the British and the combined French and Spanish fleets clashed off Cadiz, the Admiralty issued an order
On 1 August 1803, Lieutenant John Quilliam, then fifth lieutenant of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson’s flagship Victory, recorded in his own lieutenant’s log that ‘left the
Friday April 2nd 2021 is the 220th anniversary of the first Battle of Copenhagen, the final fleet action of the French revolutionary wars of 1792