The Battle of Trafalgar was the largest naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars between the English and Spanish-French fleets, which took place on October 21, 1805 at Cape Trafalgar. The battle lasted 12 hours, and involved 33 Allied ships and 27 British, led by the famous Admiral Horatio Nelson. The British captured and destroyed 18 enemy ships. The Allies also lost about 7,000 men killed, wounded, and captured, while the British lost about 1,500. That's what encyclopedias tell us . But the brilliant Spanish novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte, in his latest historical and adventure novel Cape Trafalgar, paints a more detailed and convincing picture of what really happened that autumn day. So, the wet deck of the "Enserten" sways under the feet from a slight swell that erodes the surface of the sea miles to thirty yust-ost from Cadiz . Lieutenant-Captain Louis Kelenneck is about to appear on the pages of history textbooks, but he does not yet know about it. But the first words he uttered at dawn of the 29th Vandemyera XIV, would be different ...