The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 is a painting of 1822 by the British artist J. M. W. Turner. It was commissioned by King George IV as a part of...
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The Battle of Trafalgar was a battle of 1805 in the Napoleonic Wars. The Battle of Trafalgar may also refer to: The Battle of Trafalgar (Turner), a painting...
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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...
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one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a role in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames by a paddle-wheel steam tug...
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Fourth plinth (redirect from The Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square)
The fourth plinth is the northwest plinth in Trafalgar Square in central London. It was originally intended to hold an equestrian statue of William IV...
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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (redirect from The Hero of Trafalgar)
October 1805, the Franco-Spanish fleet came out of port, and Nelson's fleet engaged them at the Battle of Trafalgar. The battle became one of Britain's greatest...
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thousands of miles of ocean, was marked by several naval engagements, most significantly at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October, where the combined fleet...
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HMS Temeraire (1798) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
blockades or convoy escort duties. She fought only one fleet action, the Battle of Trafalgar, but became so well known for that action and her subsequent depictions...
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Loutherbourg's Glorious First of June and The Battle of Trafalgar by Jones' friend Turner. However the king disliked the latter and soon had it shifted...
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The statue of George IV in Trafalgar Square, London, is a bronze equestrian statue by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey. It depicts the King dressed in ancient...
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James Clephan (redirect from Battle of Trafalgar flag)
at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. He rose from the ranks to become a post-captain. A flag presented to him after the battle by the crew of the ship...
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The battle was described by contemporary Sir George Clarke as "by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar". The battle involved...
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Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker...
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French Imperial Navy (section Trafalgar Campaign)
the old French Navy under The Republic. It notably saw action at the Battle of Trafalgar, and its defeat prevented Napoleon's planned invasion of the...
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England expects that every man will do his duty (category Battle of Trafalgar)
sent by Vice-Admiral of the Royal Navy Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, from his flagship HMS Victory as the Battle of Trafalgar was about to commence...
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the Bay of Aboukir off the Egyptian coast at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, near Spain at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and in the second Battle of...
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attempt to secure the Regent's patronage. He did subsequently receive his only royal commission for the naval painting The Battle of Trafalgar in 1822. After...
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Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet (category Royal Navy captains at the Battle of Trafalgar)
commanded HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars. Nelson was shot as he paced the decks with Hardy, and as...
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fought in the Battle of Trafalgar and was later used as a prison ship and then a receiving ship, and was broken up in 1838, recorded in The Fighting Temeraire...
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The Shipwreck is a landscape painting by J. M. W. Turner in the collection of the Tate. It was completed around 1805, when it was exhibited in Turner's...
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Paris 2 Elba 1 The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in...
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After his death during the Battle of Trafalgar, he became revered as a British hero, and his fame reached new heights. Large numbers of monuments and memorials...
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National Gallery (redirect from The National Gallery, London)
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection...
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member of the Society for Nautical Research, and in 1930 his 42-foot (13 m) panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar was unveiled by King George V. The painting...
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French ship Achille (1804) (category Ships of the line of the French Navy)
vanguard of the French Fleet on 20 October 1805, just before the Battle of Trafalgar, and she was the first Franco-Spanish ship to sight the English fleet...
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naval battle against Russia at Tsushima in 1905, which in turn echoed Horatio Nelson's signal at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805: "The fate of the Empire...
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William Prowse (category Royal Navy captains at the Battle of Trafalgar)
under Calder and Trafalgar under Nelson. He finished his career by serving with distinction in the Mediterranean, and died with the rank of Rear-Admiral....
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other locations, such as London's Trafalgar Square and the coastal Saunton Sands. A total of nine companies handled the visual effects. Warner Bros. spent...
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by conflicts from the Napoleonic era: his works The Battle of Trafalgar (1807) and The Fighting Temeraire are realizations of the artist's influences...
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his accession to the throne in 1820 - commissioned J. M. W. Turner's The Battle of Trafalgar as a pendant for it. However, Turner's piece was criticised...
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