The national hero of England was lost, and his battle won, on the same day. This is one of the more easily-understood commentaries on the Battle of Trafalgar I have found online. It ends:
"The ultimate outcome of the victory was to secure the supremacy of the British navy on the high seas for the next hundred years, and the end to any threat of invasion from France. It lead Napoleon to his Continental strategy, and possibly to his disastrous campaign against the Russians in 1812."
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