Whilst researching Trafalgar I have found several key events which occurred during the battle. I have also found an animation of the strategy used by Nelson.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/searchbin/searchs.pl?flashy=et1740z
The animation shows the movements of the ships during the battle which led to the great victory.
This strategy differs from the how battles of the time were normally fought. At this times ships would sail alongside each other and fight, whereas Nelson sent two rows of ship forward into the row of enemy ships.
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Hey thats a really good find. Nice one. I think your right about that being a new tactic for the time.
Interesting tactic, how the English ships cut into the enemy, to split them up in smaller groups.
This is a really useful resource - and interesting to see how someone has interpreted the information.
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