Literary References
C. S. Forester's unfinished novel, Hornblower and the Crisis, had Horatio Hornblower planting false orders from Napoleon to Villeneuve sending Villeneuve out to fight the British fleet. In another novel by Alexander Kent (the penname of Douglas Reeman), Honour This Day, a description of a battle between the British and Spanish navies is described as the British try to prevent the Spaniards to join forces with the French navy under Villeneuve. Despite the defeat at Trafalgar his name is etched on the Arc De Triomphe.
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