The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).. As part of Napoleon's plans to invade England, the French and Spanish fleets combined to take control of the English …

HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy.A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786. Bellerophon served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, mostly on blockades or convoy escort duties.She fought in three fleet actions: the Glorious First of June (1794), the Battle of the Nile (1798) and the Battle …

Trafalgar entered folklore as the most famous naval battle in British history. Nelson was celebrated as a naval hero. Equally significant was the navy’s years of economic ear by blockade. Both the battle and Nelson’s naval tactics throughout his career shaped the future of thinking by the Royal Navy throughout the 19th century.

Nov 08, 2021 · Between 1794 and 1805 Nelson contributed to a number of naval victories against the French – losing both the sight in one eye and an arm in the process – but it was the battle of Trafalgar, on 21 October 1805, that propelled him into the history books. Victory in that battle saved Britain from the threat of invasion, but cost Nelson his life.

The pioneers of aircraft carriers, well advanced in 1918 with operational experience, went on in this path with conversions and newly built ones, also inventing the concept or armoured aicraft carriers shortly before WW2, with a massive industrial effort to produced dozens of ligher fleet carriers and escort ships.