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Spanish account listing ships and losses at battle of Trafalger [in Spanish]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02794.172 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Document Date: [1805] Pagination: 2 p. + docket 31.2 x 21.5 cm Order a Copy

First page is the "State of the squads that battled on 21 October 1805 at S.C. Cadiz, seven leagues distant from the said port." Second page is the "State of the English squads after the battle with the Combinada on the 21st of October." [Cataloger's translations]. Docketed on verso.

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