The Battle of Trafalgar

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The Battle of Trafalgar

• Historic Battles

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The Battle of Trafalgar The Battle of Trafalgar
was fought on the 21st of October 1805 off Cape
Trafalgar on the Spanish coast, between the
combined fleets of Spain and France and the
Royal Navy. It was the last great sea action of
the period and its significance to the outcome
of the war in Europe is still debated by
historians. The British fleet was led by Admiral
Horatio Nelson and the combined French and
Spanish fleets were led by Admiral Villeneuve
We will try to use the battle theory to win
the Battle of Trafalgar
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Battle of Trafalgar 1805
British fleet of 40 ships do battle with
the combined Spanish and French fleets of 46
ships in the Battle of Trafalgar in the year
1805.
Your job is to win the battle of Trafalgar
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If Nelson simply attacked as a single unit and
took on the enemy in a ship to ship battle then
the battle theory tells us that
Survivors s int462 4021/2 22 A combined
French and Spanish victory with 22
ships surviving. Nelson needed to employ a
tactic and what he did was to split the enemy
force into two parts and at the same time split
his own fleet and fight two separate battles.
The survivors of these battles would then fight
it out in a final battle
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One possibility would be to try to split the
enemy force into 2 equal parts and at the same
time break your own force into say 6 ships and 34
ships.
This will lead to two separate battles and the
outcomes are Top battle- survivors g
int232 621/2 22 Bottom battle- survivors
h int342 2321/2 25 The final battle takes
place between the two sets of survivors Final
battle- survivors s int252 2221/2
11 A victory for Nelson at Trafalgar
Examine some of the other possibilities shown on
the next slides
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