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Bucentaure
''Bucentaure'' was an 86-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, and the lead ship of Bucentaure-class ship of the line, her class. She was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville, Latouche Tréville, who died on board on 18 August 1804, and later of Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve as the flagship of the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. ''Bucentaure'' was named after the Republic of Venice, Venetian state barge ''Bucentaur, Bucintoro'' which was destroyed by Napoleon after the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797. While the Venetian name is of uncertain etymology. (it may have originated in the Buccina, bucinatores aboard who blew their instruments to herald the arrival of the Doge (title), Doge), the French ''Bucentaure''s figurehead depicted a : a mythical, centaur-like creature with the body of a bull and the head of a man. Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Villeneuve hoisted his flag on 6 November 1804. ''Buce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the Royal Navy and a combined fleet of the French Navy, French and Spanish Navy, Spanish navies during the War of the Third Coalition. As part of Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom, the French and Spanish fleets combined to take control of the English Channel and provide the Grande Armée safe passage. The allied fleet, under the command of French admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, sailed from the port of Cádiz in the south of Spain on 18 October 1805. They encountered a British fleet under Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Lord Nelson, recently assembled to meet this threat, in the Atlantic Ocean along the southwest coast of Spain, off Cape Trafalgar. Nelson was outnumbered, with 27 British ships of the line to 33 Franco-Spanish ships, including the largest warship in either fleet, the Spanish ''Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
