What year did Trafalgar take place?
Battle of Trafalgar
At 5:40a.m. on 21 October, the British were about 21miles  (34km) to the northwest of Cape Trafalgar, with the Franco-Spanish fleet between the British and the Cape. At circa 6a.m., Nelson gave the order to prepare for battle.[48] At 8am the British frigate Euryalus, which had been keeping watch on the Combined Fleet overnight, observed the British fleet still "forming the lines" in which it would attack.[49]