Trafalgar
Cape, a cape on the SW coast of Spain, W of Gibraltar: British naval victory over the French and Spanish fleets 1805.
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Historical Examples
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848 Various
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noun
Cape Trafalgar, a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
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