Victory - Hardcoverby Breton Bailey (Author) This book attempts to tell the history of the greatest naval battle fought against overwhelming odds by Britain's greatest hero, Lord Horatio Nelson, in 1805 off the Spanish coast of Trafalgar. Nelson, with a fleet of 27 ships, met the larger combined navies of the French and Spanish, off the harbour town of Cadiz. On the evening prior to the battle, Nelson had each captain from each British ship of the fleet board the