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Trafalgar Dispatch

Great Britain · Warfare / Napoleonic Wars. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1805Date range
2Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1805

John Richards Lapenotiere4 November 1805

Falmouth · Warfare / Napoleonic Wars

Brings Collingwood's Trafalgar dispatch to Britain in HMS Pickle.

William Marsden6 November 1805

London · Warfare / Napoleonic Wars

Receives official news from Lapenotiere.

Names involved

John Richards LapenotiereWilliam Marsden

Provenance

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