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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 .
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.
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).
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 ...
No major hostilities between France and any member of the coalition other than Britain (Trafalgar campaign March–November 1805) occurred until the Ulm Campaign (25 September – 20 October 1805). This was in part because Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom was not called off until 27 August 1805, when he decided to use his ...
the Trafalgar campaign (March–November 1805); the Ulm campaign (25 September – 20 October 1805); the Venetian campaign in modern-day Veneto (October–November 1805); the Austerlitz campaign in modern-day Austria and Czechia (30 October – 2 December 1805); the Hanover Expedition or Weser Expedition (19 November 1805 – 15 February 1806);
The Trafalgar Campaign [ edit ] Pellew next went to sea in April 1804 following the Peace of Amiens , commanding the ship of the line Conqueror in the Channel before going to the Mediterranean in September and participating in the full chase across the Atlantic after the French fleet and the return leg to Cadiz.