Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805 - Schom, Alan

Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805 by Schom, Alan

Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Published by Atheneum, 1990

The Battle of Trafalgar is well-known for the magnanimous nature of the British victory, even though it cost the nation its greatest hero Lord Admiral, Horatio Nelson. For this reason, the battle itself has been remembered as a momentary success, the resulted only from a stroke of immediate genius or from a brief plan. But as Alan Schom shows, the Battle of 21 October 1805, a meeting of the might of the British and French navies, was the result of a strategy laid out by the British Admiralty two years earlier, in 1803.