On 21 October 1805 , the guns roared across the Atlantic swells off Cape Trafalgar. The sea boiled with smoke and flame, the air split by cannonballs and splintered oak, and at the heart of it all — one man stood calm, commanding, and utterly resolute: Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson . It’s hard, two centuries later, to truly imagine the chaos of that day. The British fleet, 27 ships strong, faced 33 French and Spanish ships — a combined enemy bent on invading Britain itself. The

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