In the early nineteenth century, the Emperor of France was Napoleon, who is still famous in the world, who hoped to carry out a war against Britain through France's own powerful naval power to invade its homeland and completely dominate Europe, but France did not expect that such a war would eventually destroy the elite of the French navy and destroy the entire army, which also became the most tragic naval battle in French history, almost ruling the world.
In fact, when Napoleon was the emperor of France at that time, at the peak of almost the whole of Europe had to submit to him, but the British empire was independent of Europe, so Napoleon's continuous expansion of the war, landing on the British mainland was a dream thing. In August of that year, the Combined Spanish Fleet, led by the French Navy, was blockaded by the British Navy in a port south of Spain, which was the trigger for the outbreak of the Battle of Traffa.
Napoleon then sent a general to lead the fleet to support the French combined Spanish fleet to attack the sun, but was discovered by the British coastal fleet, and monitored the movement of this support fleet, and while france was on the move, a British commander Nelson had already thought of a countermeasure, which was later known as Nelson's plan.
This plan was specifically that the British would first merge their warships with the French and Spanish fleets, so that the possibility of escaping without fighting was reduced, and the British also realized that this was a fierce and fierce war, so they concentrated all their main firepower on the rear of the enemy fleet, so that the ships in the front had to turn around and go back to the rear, thus completely disrupting the French tactics.
In the full five hours of this battle, the British army completely destroyed the Combined Franco-Spanish Fleet, and the commander Villeneuve was captured, although the British commander at that time was also killed in the war, but such a war was a complete defeat for France, and for Britain, it was undoubtedly a huge victory. The reason for the Defeat of France was the problem of tactics and the quality of officers and soldiers, first of all, in terms of tactics, France's tactics were to quickly flee the scene after the attack, and the British just made a tactic for this, so that the French retreat route was completely blocked.
Although the French navy was defeated by the British navy in this battle, not only the elite was lost, but also helped the British consolidate the combat strength of the navy, but the French military strength was indeed not vain at the time.