CAPE TRAFALGAR • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Cape Trafalgar

... off, the centre of the enemy's fleet bearing about east by south of ours. At 6 a.m. we could from the deck see the enemy's fleet, and, as I afterwards learned, the Victory was at that time about seven leagues distant from Cape Trafalgar. At about 10 a.m. the French Admiral Villeneuve had managed to form his fleet in close order of battle; but owing to the lightness of the wind, some of the ships were to windward and some to leeward of their proper stations—the whole being somewhat ...

— Will Weatherhelm - The Yarn of an Old Sailor • W.H.G. Kingston

... to the northwest the Portuguese Cape Vincent, near which, in 1797, England won a naval victory over Spain; southeast of Cape Vincent, on the Spanish coast, Cadiz Bay, where, in 1796, England defeated the second Spanish Armada; and southeast of Cadiz Bay, Cape Trafalgar, where, in 1805, Nelson won a famous victory over the allied fleets of France and Spain. To the northeast, the poet could see Gibraltar, the great fortress which England acquired from Spain by ...

— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning