It dates from the Napoleonic era and would ... power in Europe with the Royal Navy being the strongest fleet in the world. Did you know? A prisoner of war camp near Peterborough Cambridgeshire ...

to one of the most notorious battles of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in terrible conditions, with appalling losses on both sides.

War broke out between Britain and France in ... In 1805 Admiral Lord Nelson attacked and defeated the Napoleonic Navy in the Battle of Trafalgar. By 1806 the Act banning any slave trade between ...