Trafalgar
One of my slow-moving projects is related to family research and in one of my odd sources I’ve found a reference to a relative who “was a cavalryman in the Duke of Wellington’s army” and a “veteran of the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar”. The source itself is a bit dubious with its whiff of self-promotion.
I’ve put no energy into verifying this information–there are much larger holes to deal with–but I happened on this site today. It allows you to search a database drawn from British Navy and Army records of men (and one woman) who
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