I Thought Lord Nelson Beat the French?

During the Napoleonic wars some 200 years ago, one of the most decisive victories in the war came when Lord Horatio Nelson of the British Royal Navy soundly trounced the French and Spanish fleets off the coast of Spain, securing British domination of the seas for the next century. One wouldn't know that by watching the "reenactment" of the battle. Nelson, in his terrifying blow against Napoleon's Combined Fleet changed the direction of the war and kept Napoleon from invading the Britain directly. Lord Nelson received a fatal wound during close action with the French frigate, Redoubtable. Although the ship was defeated, a sniper drilled a shot straight into Nelson.