Battle of Trafalgar

According to the Second Doctor, the Battle of Trafalgar was the most important English victory by sea in the Napoleonic Wars. On 21 October 1805, the Royal Navy, led by Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson and Lord Admiral Collingwood, defeated a French and Spanish fleet, led by Villeneuve. However, Nelson was killed in the fighting. (PROSE: H.M.S. Tardis, World Game) The battle took place off Cape Trafalgar. (PROSE: H.M.S. Tardis)

Ships
The English Admirals, Nelson and Collingwood, lead their fleets from their flagships the HMS Victory and Royal Sovereign, respectively. (PROSE: H.M.S. Tardis) Another English ship was the HMS Temeraire. (AUDIO: The Ghosts of Gralstead)

Villeneuve commanded from the Bucentaure. Another French ship was the Redoubtable. (PROSE: H.M.S. Tardis)

Sailors
As a young man, Professor Cedric Scrivener's butler Hill served aboard the HMS Temeraire during the battle. (AUDIO: The Ghosts of Gralstead)

Prelude
Prior to the battle, the Player known as the Countess attempted to ensure Napoleon's victory by helping Fulton develop a prototype submarine, known as the Nautilus. With the machine limited in its ability to move underwater with the technologies at hand, the Countess had attempted to enhance its power by providing Fulton with an omega drive, but the Second Doctor was able to sabotage the drive and convince Fulton and Napoleon to abandon the plan. (PROSE: World Game)

Earlier in his life, the Second Doctor, along with Ben and Polly, arrived on Lord Nelson's flagship, the Victory, shortly before the battle. They were initially arrested, but were freed by Nelson after he learned that Ben was a sailor and heard the Doctor pass himself off as an astrologer. After Nelson stated that "England expects that every man will do his duty", Ben advised the admiral to broadcast the phrase as a signal on the masts of every ship in the fleet, which he did. (PROSE: H.M.S. Tardis) According to another account, it was Panda who advised Horatio Nelson to put up the message. (PROSE: Project: Wildthyme)

The battle
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond visited a different ship during the battle. It was fleeing from what they believed to be a Kraken. It was actually a 21st century aircraft carrier brought back in time by an infestation of Time Roaches. The Doctor sent it back into the Time Vortex, causing the carrier to return to its own time. (COMIC: Rough Waters)

After hunting the Flying Dutchman through time, the Twelfth Doctor, Prince George, and Thorpe finally boarded it at the battle of Trafalgar. They materialised on a French ship and were shot at by a French soldier. They jumped off the ship and landed on the Dutchman. While they were on the Dutchman it left 1805. After the Doctor took control of the ship, he took it back to the battle and retrieved his TARDIS. (COMIC: Ghosts of the Seas)

During the battle, the Doctor tried to change history by preventing Nelson's death, but was unsuccessful. The three were captured again when, under instruction from the Doctor, Ben picked up a musket and attempted to shoot the man who would assassinate Nelson. In the confusion of battle, they were able to retreat to the TARDIS, where they saw Nelson fall into Thomas Hardy's arms (PROSE: H.M.S. Tardis) after he was shot down by a sniper after the battle. (PROSE: World Game) As the Fourth Doctor recalled, in his dying words, Nelson addressed the Doctor, Hardy and a Sea Devil. (AUDIO: Gallery of Ghouls)

Aftermath
Following the battle, Napoleon finally abandoned his plans to invade England and turned his attention towards the Russians and the Austrians, marching his armies east and defeating them at Austerlitz. He invaded Spain and Portugal, defeated the Prussians and entered Berlin in a string of victories which lasted for years. (PROSE: World Game)