Trafalgar

I'm thinking over the cold winter months...thinking of places I've been. And, since a friend and I have been posting favorite classic movies on our blogs, this place just seems to fit for this post.

The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle was the most decisive British victory of the war and was a pivotal naval battle of the 19th century. The Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships, without a single British vessel being lost. Nelson was mortally wounded during the battle, becoming and remaining Britain's greatest naval war hero. (Thanks to Wikipedia for the info.)



One of the resaons, I wanted to see the site, though, was because of the famed romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton. It is immortalized in the movie, "That Hamilton Woman" with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier at the height of their own love story.



Visions of Trafalgar, Spain...