Trafalgar

How To Use Trafalgar In A Sentence

• A British fleet defeated the French at Trafalgar.
• In London, many people defied a request by police to avoid meeting in Trafalgar Square, where authorities often have trouble controlling the rowdier celebrants.
• The warship is depicted in full sail as she headed for the battle of Trafalgar and triumph over the French and Spanish fleets in 1805.
• The cemetery was used by the British military from 1708 until 1835 and, despite its name, only two men mortally wounded at Trafalgar are buried here - the majority were buried at sea.
• William Howell, who had been a boatswain at Trafalgar and a sergeant at Waterloo, turns up in the journals years later, aged 55, on the Dryad, described as "very much dissipated and suffered much from stricture and perineal tumours". Amputations, acid gargles and ammonia rubs: Royal Navy surgeons' 1793-1880 journals revealed
• Trafalgar Square is at present something of a building site as it undergoes partial pedestrianisation.
• Nobody likes them and they don't care not if some of the flyblown specimens that come sauntering up to you in Trafalgar Square are anything to go by. Bruisers of the bird world keep Mike Tyson's fighting spirit cooped up | Martin Kelner
• He was also prepared to divulge details of an operation by the nuclear submarine HMS Trafalgar. Times, Sunday Times
• As part of the bicentenary celebrations the Society is producing a facsimile of the Naval Gold Medal for Trafalgar, awarded posthumously to the hero of the Senior Service.
• Auban laments how this heroic battle against authority ended the ‘right to free speech on Trafalgar Square’.