nineteenth-century

Paul O’Keeffe Trafalgar Battle and Aftermath with Julian Worricker About 1.15 in the afternoon of 21 October 1805, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was struck by a 22-gramme, 15-millimetre French musket. O’Keeffe gives us a front-row view of the Battle of Trafalgar; and in his unflinching portrayal of the brutal reality of naval warfare, he tells […]