At 11.45am, on Oct 21, 220 years ago, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson ordered the most famous military message ever sent to be ...

The naval commander himself had been killed by a French sniper, and his loyal captain Thomas Hardy was determined to keep a ...

A wreath was laid on Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory as part of the annual Trafalgar Day ceremony at Portsmouth.

On This Day, 21 October 1805, Britain’s greatest ever naval hero proved conclusively that Britannia rules the waves… and died ...

Sotheby's employees look at a frame with a fragment of a Union Jack in London, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. An exceptionally large fragment of the Union Flag, which flew from HMS Victory at the Battle of ...

LONDON -- Sotheby's auction house says a fragment of the red, white and blue "Victory Jack" flag that flew from Adm. Horatio Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar has sold for 297,000 ...

Here’s what you need to remember: Construction of the warship stopped and restarted during the war, and as a result to modifications being made to address wartime experience. HMS Vanguard wasn’t ...

The result was HMS Vanguard. Development of more powerful battleships began in the late 1930s when the British military believed it would be outnumbered by the combined German and Japanese battleship ...

In this Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018 file photo, Sotheby's employees adjust a frame with a fragment of the Union Flag, which flew from HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, in London. Sotheby's auction ...

LONDON (AP) — Sotheby’s auction house says a fragment of the red, white and blue “Victory Jack” flag that flew from Adm. Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar has sold for 297,000 ...