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Site of Nelson's most famous victory
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trafalgar
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Trafalgar is a ward ( barrio ) of Madrid belonging to the district of Chamberí . Category:Wards of Madrid Category:Chamberí
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cape in southwestern Spain, from Arabic taraf-al-garb "end of the west," or taraf-agarr "end of the column" (in reference to the pillars of Hercules). The British naval victory over the French there was fought Oct. 21, 1805; hence London's Trafalgar Square ...
Usage examples of trafalgar.
He looked down at Trafalgar Square, where throngs of clubbers were waiting for night buses, then up towards Cambridge Circus at the thinning traffic.
Avon contributed to that as well, by donating to the Assembly an orbiting asteroid named Trafalgar which was in the last phase of mining.
Years after Trafalgar, Lady Hamilton used to go to concerts where Braham was billed to sing The Death of Nelson, and at a telling moment in the song she would faint noisily and have to be carried out.
A hundred thousand anti-monarchists had walked from Trafalgar Square to Clarence House, not knowing that the Queen Mother was at the races.
So perfectly, indeed, had he performed his part, that the maritime war, after the battle of Trafalgar, was considered at an end: the fleets of the enemy were not merely defeated but destroyed.
Colonel Mering and Professor Peddick arrived, talking animatedly about the battle of Trafalgar.
For example, I have never yet heard two accounts of the battle of Trafalgar that consist with one another in their details.
In this posture he reminded Nash of a British professor explaining the Battle of Trafalgar to a slow-but-promising undergraduate.
Nelson destroyed it at the battle of Trafalgar, losing his own life in the process.
He had been in action dozens of times now and one of his proudest moments, Ramage knew, was that he had taken part in the Battle of Trafalgar.
There was little enthusiasm and no cheers either, for this was 1809, and four years had passed since the death of Nelson, the nation's darling, and the battle of Trafalgar which must have seemed to many the final stage of this endless war.
His greatest victory, a victory that killed him, was at the Battle of Trafalgar where he broke through the French line of ships just as I plan to do now.
Completed too late for Trafalgar, she had had only a brief career under the Tricolour before she was attacked and captured by two of the blockading squadron while on passage from Belle Isle to Brest.
Rose Cohen, and the Queen's-head postage-stamps had been franked at Trafalgar Square post office.
Now Trafalgar was near the tail of a string of Fusers, spread between one AU and point two five AU.