Facing overwhelming odds, Horatio Nelson took a daring gamble at Cape St. Vincent. This battle cemented his status as one of history’s greatest naval commanders.

Sotheby's auction house on Wednesday, Jan. 18, said a fragment of the red, white and blue "Victory Jack" flag that flew from Adm. Horatio Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar has sold ...

Original battle plans drawn by Admiral Horatio Nelson could start a bidding war worth £250,000 in New York. The plans detail Horatio's fleet to victory at Trafalgar in the early 1800s.

A Union flag which flew from the ship that led the British fleet into the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, the day of the victory and the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson, will be offered ...

VICTORY: THE LIFE OF LORD NELSON (393 pp.)—Oliver Warner—Atlantic-Little, Brown ($6.50).A Lord Nelson is the name given in Royal Navy wardrooms to a poker hand containing three Jacks. In the ...

Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, has been undergoing restoration by the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard. She led Britain to victory over the French in ...

HMS VICTORY. Type: 'First rate' ship-of-the-line. The British naval term "first rate" applied to a ship with at least 100 guns. Crew: 820. Launched: Chatham, 7 May 1765, designed by Sir Thomas Slade.

LONDON (AP) — Sotheby's auction house says a fragment of the red, white and blue "Victory Jack" flag that flew from Adm. Horatio Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar has sold for ...

Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, has been undergoing restoration by the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard. She led Britain to victory over the French in ...