How To Use Trafalgar In A Sentence
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A British fleet defeated the French at Trafalgar.
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In London, many people defied a request by police to avoid meeting in Trafalgar Square, where authorities often have trouble controlling the rowdier celebrants.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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Trafalgar Square is at present something of a building site as it undergoes partial pedestrianisation.
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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.
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He was also prepared to divulge details of an operation by the nuclear submarine HMS Trafalgar.
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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.
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Auban laments how this heroic battle against authority ended the ‘right to free speech on Trafalgar Square’.
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Since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 Britain's Royal Navy had been the dominant fighting fleet in the world; now Germany was challenging this position.
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I think that Alison's portrait reactivates this dormant aspect of Trafalgar Square.
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We proceed to Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, and The Houses of Parliament.
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I can see it now, future intervals at English National Opera being characterised by hordes of opera-loving smokers surreptitiously tippling their Tennants Super as they overspill into the periphery of Trafalgar Square.
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The Earl of Halifax, who has loaned it to Trafalgar Square, now wants to sell.
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For the first time in years, Trafalgar Square was empty of pigeons.
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For the first time in years, Trafalgar Square was empty of pigeons.
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Pepys relates how he met a seaman returning from fighting the Dutch with his eye-socket "stopped with oakum," and as late at least as the Battle of Trafalgar it was customary, in amputations, to treat the bleeding stump with boiling pitch as a cauterant.
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The demonstrators marched to Trafalgar Square where they held a rally.
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He was also prepared to divulge details of an operation by the nuclear submarine HMS Trafalgar.
Times, Sunday Times
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He joined the Navy as a midshipman at the age of 14, and fought in the battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar.
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Two centuries on, the ‘New Trafalgar Dispatch’ was placed on board the Jubilee Sailing Trust's barque Lord Nelson in Portsmouth at the International Festival of the Sea.
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At Trafalgar, Nelson refused to parallel the enemy fleet in traditional line ahead, but crashed into the French battle line with two columns of ships led by himself and Collingwood.
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Defeat at Trafalgar ended any hope of maritime supremacy for France, and thus any realistic hope of vanquishing the British, but Napoleon continued to steamroller his continental opponents.
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The arch proposed for Trafalgar Square will be made of stone powder and a lightweight composite.
Times, Sunday Times
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Funding has already been earmarked for the Trafalgar Day Celebrations and has been provided for the recent Youth Festival.
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The arch proposed for Trafalgar Square will be made of stone powder and a lightweight composite.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wonder how many bobbies I would see in Trafalgar Square on a similar occasion.
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I see that I am standing beside an iron seat of poor design in that grey and gawky waste of asphalte — Trafalgar Square, and the botanist, with perplexity in his face, stares from me to a poor, shrivelled, dirt-lined old woman — my God! what a neglected thing she is! — who proffers a box of matches ....
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It's a shame that gaslights are no longer around, but you can still enjoy deliciously spook atmosphere in the darker streets, and glamour around Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
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These premises stood in what is now the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square.
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Nelson destroyed the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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And Trafalgar Square really is chockers with pigeons!
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Since I was off yesterday and there was nothing on the telly I watched the self-congratulatory backslapping gathering in Trafalgar Square.
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Could you direct me to Trafalgar Square, please?
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After Trafalgar, the Empire was hemmed in and its many enemies began circling their prey.
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The auxiliary has also been called upon to provide support for the two nuclear submarines which were assigned to the task group, HMS Trafalgar and HMS Superb.
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Cornwallis's job was to prevent the Grande Armée mounting a cross-channel invasion and, in doing so, he ‘achieved a goal as important as Trafalgar’, though unhonoured.
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Aptly in this bicentennial year of Trafalgar, the Senior Service was at the hub of ceremonies of remembrance to mark the nation's war dead at home and aboard.
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The round tower looking uncommonly like a lighthouse or a telescope, contains relics of the hero of Trafalgar.
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It is hoped the new building will be opened to visitors early next year, well in time for the 200th anniversary commemorations of the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Today my anti-war comrades are taking part in the 4 day anti-nuclear weapons march, from Trafalgar square to the Aldermaston army base.
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Novice enthusiasts in London should steer towards the Trafalgar Rowing Centre.
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Alan Clayton's letter anent the Battle of Trafalgar is wrong on two counts.
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It took us a good hour to crawl to Trafalgar Square but we were determined to savour every second - we waved, cheered and shouted, all the while tucking into the beer and the 'Bolly' with reckless abandon.
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THE search for a hero to go on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is over.
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Having cycled out of Sheffield on Saturday, the team are due to arrive at Trafalgar Square today? via Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester, Stratford, Oxford and Reading? then to finish at Earl's Court, the 2012 volleyball venue, saddle-sore, but undaunted.
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On the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar the streets of York were festooned with innumerable flags floating in the breeze.
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Persimmon was granted exclusive rights to negotiate a purchase of the unit for an unspecified period, Trafalgar said.
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In Trafalgar Square, he meets up with Bugsy, a fat, smelly, cheeky con-man pigeon, who ends up volunteering for the war effort by mistake.
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It describes the re-enactment not as the battle of Trafalgar but simply as an early 19th-century sea battle.
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Crowds gathered in the vicinity of Trafalgar Square.
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On January 15, in Trafalgar Square there will be 500 singers and dancers (all in costume naturally), ice skaters, balalaikas, hot borsch, blini, and pirozhki.
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The exhibitions mark the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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My guess is that the crossing he superintends at Trafalgar Square is not all that bestrewn with muck, and although by no means wholesome is no more filthy than the same streets today at the end of a busy week-day.
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You know the pessimists who write so much about our slowness, what they call our dullness, and sometimes our blunders; they would not be satisfied unless they had the news of a Waterloo with their porridge every morning for breakfast; then their appetites would still leave them hungry for a Trafalgar each day every month.
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And the constant smog brought on by the burning-cattle pyres in Trafalgar Square is making my eyes water.
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The demonstrators marched to Trafalgar Square where they held a rally.
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He had been proud of the idea that he would be part of the deputation of miners that would march on from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street.
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Today my anti-war comrades are taking part in the 4 day anti-nuclear weapons march, from Trafalgar square to the Aldermaston army base.
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This year marks the 200th anniversary of a naval engagement that affected the balance of power from the Atlantic to the Far East - the Battle of Trafalgar.
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The demonstrators marched to Trafalgar Square where they held a rally.
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Nelson defeated the French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar in 1805
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The bus runs between Erith town centre and Trafalgar Square.
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You can read all the accounts of the battle of Trafalgar you like, but none will give you quite the same understanding as actually hauling on the throat, sweating the peak or making fast the bunts and clews.
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FIRST there was the vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
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Hongkong Land acquired a 14.9% stake in Trafalgar House and then attempted, but failed, to push its holding to 29.9%.
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There is a statue of Nelson in the main square in Bridgetown that pre-dates the one in Trafalgar Square.
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Several months later she was arrested for climbing the scaffolding and smashing a window at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
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Here's another sketch wot I did earlier and a couple more photos so you can feel the atmosphere of that vibrant Sunday afternoon in Trafalgar Square.
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The original Nelson's Monument in London was erected in Trafalgar Square by voluntary subscription.
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Persimmon was granted exclusive rights to negotiate a purchase of the unit for an unspecified period, Trafalgar said.
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Nelson's Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Trafalgar said it aims to cut debt and revamp its money-losing engineering and cruise line business.
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Also as part of bicentenary events, the museum is showcasing the ‘Trafalgar Roll’, which is the result of two decades' research by a couple of historians into as many of the sailors who served at the battle as possible.
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The arch proposed for Trafalgar Square will be made of stone powder and a lightweight composite.
Times, Sunday Times
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Getty Images One of Napoleon's bicorn hats on display before a Trafalgar-themed auction in 2005.
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The figureheads, harking back to the days of sail, stand up to 1.5 metres (five feet) tall and have been suggested by Trafalgar 200 organisers to stimulate interest in all things nautical at an early age.
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How borrowings from Hindi words have changed since the end of the Raj is evident from what I once saw in London's Trafalgar Square.
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A definitive agreement for shareholders to approve could come by Feb. 22 when Trafalgar House holds its annual meeting.
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On New Year's Eve, thousands of revellers fill Trafalgar Square.
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Trafalgar said it aims to cut debt and revamp its money-losing engineering and cruise line business.
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A memorial was erected to her in St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, London.
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Could you direct me to Trafalgar Square, please?
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While many from Cornwall said they saw little disorder, one Truro student found himself held in a kettle in Trafalgar Square after events were taken over by a "minority".
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The Metropolitan Police commissioner presided over the death of a demonstrator at the hands of police in 1887 in Trafalgar Square.
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A definitive agreement for shareholders to approve could come by Feb. 22 when Trafalgar House holds its annual meeting.
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He was also prepared to divulge details of an operation by the nuclear submarine HMS Trafalgar.
Times, Sunday Times
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These premises stood in what is now the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square.
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But at the end of the day, responsibility devolves upon the commander at sea, and Jellicoe had missed the fleeting opportunity to deliver a decisive victory in Trafalgar-fashion.
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In the British Navy, they call rum Nelson's Blood because his body was preserved and returned home from the Battle of Trafalgar in a cask of rum.
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Trafalgar shares have slumped from a peak of ￡3.96 three years ago as the recession has bitten into profits.
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I had better luck just below Trafalgar Square, where the Old Admiralty Building stands intact, screened off behind a handsome neoclassical colonnade from the broad avenue of government buildings called Whitehall.
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If so, she was even closer to the making of history than the five Scottish captains who commanded ships at Trafalgar on that fateful day.
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Nelson destroyed the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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One Lewis seaman at Trafalgar lost his leg below the knee and to stop the bleeding put his leg into a barrel of tar.
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On New Year's Eve, thousands of revellers fill Trafalgar Square.
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The Sea Cadets followed the New Trafalgar Dispatch throughout its journey, providing bands, honour guards, hornpipe dancers and club and cutlass swinging at numerous locations along the way.
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The four bronze lions at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London, were modeled by Landseer and put into place in 1867.
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Defeat at Trafalgar ended any hope of maritime supremacy for France, and thus any realistic hope of vanquishing the British, but Napoleon continued to steamroller his continental opponents.
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Tourist spots such as Trafalgar Square are depicted as grimily oppressive; Canary Wharf is full of ‘monstrous glass buildings’; Kings Cross Underground station is a hell-hole swarming with zombie-like commuters.
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By half past eleven the vast expanse of Trafalgar Square was already full.
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He hailed me at half-past nine in Trafalgar Square.
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Miss Sandus (she gave you her word for it) was seventy-four; -- and indeed (so are the generations linked), her father had been a middie with Nelson at Trafalgar, and a lieutenant aboard the
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It was a custom in the 19th century to prefix or suffix the name of a racehorse by its colour: and there was a bay colt called Trafalgar which won two valuable challenge matches at York in 1807.
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Strictly speaking, we should erect a statue to a plumber in Trafalgar Square.
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And it got worse, Trafalgar Square is on a hill… yup, I had to try and stop in sludgy snow despite the fact that my hands were so cold, the only thing I could feel was pain.
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The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich is to host a joint retrospective of the bicentenary year of the battle of Trafalgar.
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The entire battery of the Victory, Nelson's famous flag-ship at the battle of Trafalgar, amounting to a total of 102 guns, was composed of "carronades" varying in size from thirty-two to sixty-eight pounders.
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