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Adkin, Mark. The Trafalgar Companion: A Guide to History’s Most Famous Sea Battle and the Life of Admiral Lord Nelson. London: Aurum Press, 2005.
Summary
Definitive single-volume reference on Trafalgar — 560 pages of maps, plans, ship diagrams, biographical sketches, and tactical analysis. Covers every officer in the British and Franco-Spanish lines, the rigging and gunnery of every ship, and every phase of the action minute by minute. Standard reference for order-of-battle data and command biographies.
Credibility Assessment
- Type: Secondary — scholarly-popular reference
- Author expertise: Adkin is a former British Army officer turned military historian; this volume is the standard one-stop reference for Trafalgar
- Peer reviewed: No
- Known biases or limitations: British perspective; encyclopedic but interpretive in places; not a research monograph
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- San Rafael — Spanish 80
- Firme — Spanish 74
- Guillaume Tell — French 80-gun Ship
- Franklin — French 80-gun Ship
- Tonnant — French 80-gun Ship
- Spartiate — French Ship of the Line
- HMS Leander — 50-gun Fourth Rate
- Príncipe de Asturias — Spanish First Rate
- San José — Spanish 112-gun First Rate
- San Nicolás — Spanish 84-gun Third Rate
- Salvador del Mundo — Spanish 112-gun First Rate
- San Ysidro — Spanish 74-gun Third Rate
- Tsar Paul I of Russia
- Tsar Alexander I of Russia
- Westcott George — British Captain
- HMS Majestic — 74-gun Third Rate
- Córdova José de — Spanish Admiral
- Calder Robert — British Admiral
- Stewart William — Lt-Col
- Crown Prince Frederik — Denmark
- Second Coalition 1798–1802
- Egyptian Expedition 1798–1801
- Finisterre Prizes — 22 July 1805
- Troubridge Thomas — British Captain
- Treaty of San Ildefonso 1796
- Baltic Naval Stores — 1800–1801
- HMS Excellent — 74-gun Third Rate
- Four Spanish Prizes of Cape St Vincent 1797
- League of Armed Neutrality of the North 1800–1801
- Berry Edward — British Captain
- HMS Culloden — 74-gun Third Rate
- Nelson’s Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates
- Foley Thomas — British Captain
- King’s Deep Soundings — Copenhagen 1 April 1801
- HMS Goliath — 74-gun Third Rate
- HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship
- England Expects Signal — Trafalgar 1805
- Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Death of Nelson
- Trekroner Fort — Copenhagen
- Brueys d’Aigalliers François-Paul — French Admiral
- Fischer Olfert — Danish Commodore
- HMS Agamemnon — Overview
- Hyde Parker — British Admiral
- HMS Elephant — 74-gun Third Rate
- Copenhagen — Denmark
- Aboukir Bay — Egypt
- L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship
- Cadiz — Spanish Naval Port
- HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate
- Santísima Trinidad — Spanish First Rate
- Line of Battle — Naval Tactic
- Latouche-Tréville Louis-René — French Admiral
- Redoutable — French 74-gun Ship
- First Rate Ship of the Line — Class Overview
- Gravina Federico — Spanish Admiral
- Decrès Denis — French Naval Minister
- Storm After Trafalgar — 24–29 October 1805
- Trafalgar Campaign 1805
- Battle of Cape Finisterre 1805
- Jervis John Earl St Vincent — Biography
- Villeneuve Pierre-Charles — French Admiral
- Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory
- Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography