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The Trafalgar campaign was a long and complicated series of fleet manoeuvres carried out by the combined French and Spanish fleets; and the opposing moves of the Royal Navy during much of 1805. These were the culmination of French plans to force a passage through the English Channel , and so achieve a successful invasion of the United Kingdom .
Action of 5 October 1804; 1805 The Trafalgar campaign; 1805 campaign of the sea lanes (1805–1810) Basque Roads operation; French commerce raiding campaign of 1805; Buenos Aires operation of 1806; Escape of the Portuguese fleet
The first use of the title 'Imperial Navy' was in 1804, following the Coronation of Napoleon, a name derived from the old French Navy under The Republic. It notably saw action at the Battle of Trafalgar, and also played a role in Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom. After the First Bourbon Restoration in 1814, the navy was renamed ...
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 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).
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the French First Republic (1803–1804) and First French Empire (1804–1815) under the First Consul and Emperor of the French Napoleon Bonaparte and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
This film is described in 1911 trade publications as "a powerful historical drama" of the famous battle off the coast of Spain, at Cape Trafalgar, on October 21, 1805.The motion picture's opening scenes, according to plot descriptions in those publications, portrayed Lord Nelson (Sydney Booth) at the Board of Admiralty in London in the weeks prior to the conflict.
This list of movies is not a list of Napoleon movies. This includes films about Napoleon 's life after ≈1799. About Napoleon's life before ≈1799, see the List of films set during the French Revolution and French Revolutionary Wars .
She was built to plans by Pierre-Jacques-Nicolas Rolland. The French Navy commissioned her in June 1804 under Lieutenant Fargenel. She took part in the Trafalgar Campaign, ferrying dispatches between Fort de France and France, where she arrived on 10 July 1805. A view of HMS Pallas passing under the batteries of the Île-d'Aix on 14 May 1806.