"The only Nelsons in this battle were of the half variety. Last March's anti-poll tax demonstration in London, which degenerated into a violent shambles, is recalled and analysed, with many ...

A unique Union Jack flag which was raised during the Battle of Trafalgar has emerged for sale for £450,000. It was displayed at the front of HMS Royal Sovereign which led one of the columns ...

The Battle of Trafalgar, which took place on October 21st, 1805, was part of the War of the Third Coalition within the Napoleonic Wars. This conflict involved the British fighting against both ...

Queen Elizabeth II lighted a beacon in the city of Portsmouth to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, in which Britain's Royal Navy defeated the French and Spanish fleets ...

The last known surviving Union Jack to have been flown at the Battle of Trafalgar has sold to an American flag collector for 384,000 pounds ($636,300), more than 20 times its estimated price ...

The Battle of Trafalgar saw the Royal Navy defeat a joint Franco-Spanish fleet thus preventing it from taking control of the English Channel, which would have enabled the French dictator to launch ...

City officials on Tuesday unveiled a shortlist of six artworks competing to fill the "fourth plinth" in the square's northwest corner. Built in 1841 for an equestrian statue that was never ...

While historians have exhaustively scrutinized the tactical aspects of the Battle of Trafalgar, the circumstances and the personalities that molded this conflict have not been very well delineated ...