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Photo by Emil P. Albrecht 



TRAFALGAR SQUARE) AND NELSON MONUMENT 



This monument, a massive granite column 145 feet high, commemorates Lord Nelson's 

 death at the Battle of Trafalgar, October 22, 1805, where the English fleet gained its great 

 victory over the combined armaments of France and Spain. By this victory England's 

 position as mistress of the seas was firmly established. It frustrated the purpose of 

 Napoleon- — who had at Boulogne an army of 172,000 infantry, 9,000 cavalry, and 2,413 

 transports — to invade England. The column is a copy of one of those in the Temple of 

 Mars Ultor, at Rome, and is crowned with a statue of Nelson 17 feet high. 



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