Trafalgar was the most famous and strategically significant victory in the age of sail and this volume charts all the major naval events from 1803 to 1805, as well as Nelson's heroic death at the moment of his greatest triumph. The book is one of a major series which describes the great maritime events of the pre-photographic era from contemporary paintings, prints, drawings, charts and plans, based on the incomparable collections of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich