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Hace 2 días · The Royal Navy ( RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
20 de may. de 2024 · The Household includes a number of honorary military appointments: the aides-de-camp to the King (who are usually very high-ranking officers of the three armed services), the two Gold Sticks and the Vice Admiral and Rear Admiral of the United Kingdom.
Hace 2 días · The Royal Marines, also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, [6] one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, [7] and provide a company strength unit to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG). [8]
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10 de may. de 2024 · Horatio Nelson (born September 29, 1758, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England—died October 21, 1805, at sea, off Cape Trafalgar, Spain) was a British naval commander in the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, who won crucial victories in such battles as those of the Nile (1798) and of Trafalgar (1805), where he was killed by ...
14 de may. de 2024 · Battle of Trafalgar, (October 21, 1805), naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, which established British naval supremacy for more than 100 years; it was fought west of Cape Trafalgar, Spain, between Cádiz and the Strait of Gibraltar.
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- The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought between British and French-led forces on October 21, 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars. It too...
- Admiral Horatio Nelson led the British fleet and Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve led a fleet of French and Spanish ships at the Battle of Trafalgar.
- About 1,500 British seamen were killed or wounded in the Battle of Trafalgar, and Admiral Horatio Nelson was mortally wounded. In the Spanish and F...
- The Battle of Trafalgar was important because it established British naval supremacy for more than 100 years. The battle also shattered Napoleon’s...
Hace 1 día · The term Great Britain, which this article uses as a geographic designation, is often used as a synonym for the United Kingdom, a political entity that includes England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and that was once part of the British Empire.
Hace 2 días · Russia’s Admiral Kuznetsov, displacing 58,500 tonnes, is the fourth-largest carrier in the world and the only operational carrier in the Russian Navy. It accommodates a variety of aircraft, including Su-33 and MiG-29K fighters, and features powerful armaments such as Kashtan CIWS and Granit missiles.
