Nelson and Napoleon

On 21st October 1805, the British Fleet under vice admiral Lord Nelson defeated the Combined Fleet of Spanish and French ships of the line off Cape Trafalgar.  Nelson was killed and so was confirmed the greatest sea-going legend in British naval history.  After Trafalgar, the sea ways were clear for the British to expand their empire with hardly any opposition.  Britain really did rule the waves. But was Nelson such a hero? He challenged the gods, so probably yes. But was he right in his tactics? Perhaps not always. And what about the others, the forgotten heroes of those three years when Napoleon was planning to invade the south of England. Wrongly, many historians have written that Nelson stopped that invasion. He did not.  Admiral Cornwallis with his blockade of the French ports at Brest, was the real hero. Without his management of the sea, the French might well have been strong enough to invade while Nelson was thousands of miles away in the West Indies. Nelson wanted gold, medals and fame. He had all three and Nelson & Napoleon, the story of the duel between these two famous personalities, tells how Nelson got his column in Trafalgar Square.