The Battle of Trafalgar is the largest naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars between the English and Spanish-French fleets, which took place on October 21, 1805 off Cape Trafalgar. The battle lasted 12 hours and involved 33 Allied and 27 British ships, under the leadership of the famous Admiral Horatio Nelson. The British captured and destroyed 18 enemy ships. The Allies also lost about 7,000 people killed, wounded and prisoners, the British - about 1,500. This is what the encyclopedias tell us. But the brilliant Spanish novelist Arturo Perez-Reverte, in his newest historical adventure novel, Cape Trafalgar, paints a more detailed and convincing picture of what really happened on that autumn day. So, the wet deck of the Ensertin sways underfoot from the slight swell , which ruffles the surface of the sea about thirty miles southeast of Cadiz. Lieutenant Commander Louis Kelennec is about to make it into the pages of history books, but he doesn’t know it yet. Otherwise, the first words he uttered at dawn on the 29th of Vendémière XIV would have been different...