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9 unusual facts about Trafalgar


Ballabeg

Its most famous occupant is Captain John Quilliam, who steered the Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.

Dineen Group

In the early 1960s Bill Dineen ran a school run in Trafalgar.

Paxton's Tower

Paxton may have been inspired to build the tower by Nelson's death at Trafalgar.

Trafalgar Day

The victory is celebrated each year in the Australia town of Trafalgar, Victoria, in which the small town of 2,200 hold an annual Battle of Trafalgar Festival with the Trafalgar Day Ball held on the Friday or Saturday closest to 21 October each year.

Trafalgar-class submarine

The name Trafalgar refers to the Battle of Trafalgar fought between the Royal Navy and the combined fleets of France and Spain.

The Trafalgar-class was to be replaced by the Future Fleet Submarine, however this project was effectively cancelled in 2001 and replaced by the Maritime Underwater Future Capability.

The MOD also confirmed that on 24 March a further series of missiles were fired into Libya by a Trafalgar-class submarine at air defence targets around the city of Sabha.

Trafalgar, Victoria

Tim Forsyth, Olympic highjumper, attended Trafalgar Secondary College

The town has a railway station on the Bairnsdale railway line.


Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes

He volunteered for the Navy in 1804 and participated in the recapture of Fort Le Diamant on Martinique, then fought at Trafalgar as an aspirant on board Bucentaure, the admiral's flagship.

Bash: Latter-Day Plays

It later made its West End theatre premiere on January 10, 2007 at the Trafalgar Studio 2, directed by Tamara Harvey and starring Harry Lloyd, Juliet Rylance, David Sturzaker and Jodie Whittaker.

Dineen Group

In 1968 he purchased Workmen's Comfort Coaches of Trafalgar followed by Warragul Bus Lines.

Equestrian statue of George IV, Trafalgar Square

Journalist Janice Turner questioned the need for a George IV statue in Trafalgar Square in 2005, which was rebutted by Lord Baker of Dorking who argued that the monarch still deserved the statue due to his town planning legacy which remained in London.

Fifeshire FM

Australian bands Icehouse and Boom Crash Opera along with Nelson-born Sharon O’Neill performed in front of a crowd of 9000 people at Trafalgar Park.

George Crawford McKindsey

Born in the Township of Trafalgar, Halton County, Ontario, of Irish parents who came to Canada and settled in the County of Halton in 1819, McKindsey was educated at the Common School and also by private tuition.

Indira Varma

In 2013 she played Miss Cutts in The Hothouse by Harold Pinter in the Trafalgar Transformed season at Trafalgar Studios.

John Wesley Wright

That alleged—the news of Mack's surrender at Ulm — is absurd, especially to a naval officer who had also the news of Trafalgar.

Kettlestone

He began as rector in 1796, and hence was preaching during the French Revolution, Trafalgar and Waterloo, the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny.

London's Trafalgar Square

London's Trafalgar Square is a 1890 British silent black-and-white short film, shot by inventors and film pioneers Wordsworth Donisthorpe and William Carr Crofts at approximately 10 frames per second with an oval or circular frame on celuloid film using their 'kinesigraph' camera, showing traffic at Trafalgar Square in London.

Manors railway station

The station briefly featured in the 1971 film Get Carter, showing the long staircase from the Trafalgar Street entrance to Manors East.

Maria Frances Ann Morris

In 1840, She married Garret Trafalgar Nelson Miller, the son of Garrett Miller and Catherine Pernette, who was the daughter of Joseph Pernette.

Newfoundland expedition

The Spanish novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte cites this expedition in one of his works, Cabo Trafalgar: un relato naval.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Quilliam

John Quilliam (1771–1829), a British Royal Navy officer and the First Lieutenant on HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar

Reclaim the Streets

A march with the sacked Liverpool dockers started at Kennington Park and ended up at Trafalgar Square in the centre of London.

Richard Rive

Rive went to St Mark's Primary School and Trafalgar High School, both in District Six, and then to Hewat College of Education in Athlone, where he qualified as a teacher.

Richard Standing

In 2009 he starred alongside Lenny Henry in theatre the Shakespeare play Othello in Trafalgar Studios in London.

Roy and Lesley Adkins

Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle made an appearance at Christmas in the comedy programme 'The Peep Show' (series 7 episode 5), when Mark (played by David Mitchell) receives a copy of the book as a present from his flatmate Jeremy (played by Robert Webb).

San Juan Nepomuceno

San Juan Nepomuceno, a 74-gun Spanish ship of the line that took part in the Battle of Trafalgar, under the command of Brigadier Don Cosme Damian Churruca

Sharpe's Trafalgar

Sharpe's Trafalgar is a nautical adventure that finds ensign Richard Sharpe in the middle of one of history's most historically significant naval engagements: the battle at Cape Trafalgar off the west coast of Spain, in 1805.

Tahu Matheson

At the end of 2005 he was invited to London to conduct a new opera "Nelson" for the Trafalgar Bicentenary, featuring Jeffrey Black in the title role.

Ted Mulry

It was the second single released from the Here We Are album produced by John L Sayers at Trafalgar Studios.

Trafalgar Moraine

The Trafalgar Moraine is approximately 20 km long, 30 m high and 4 km wide, extending from the Niagara Escarpment north of Nelson to Streetsville in an east-northeast trend; at the Oakville boundary, the trend shifts northeast.

Trafalgar Park

Trafalgar Park, Wiltshire, a park surrounding Trafalgar House, Wiltshire, England, UK

West Gippsland

Principal towns of West Gippsland include (from west to east along the Princes Highway) Pakenham, Drouin, Warragul and Trafalgar.


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