Since 1803, Napoleon dreamed of invading England. An ambition for which the Emperor transformed the small port of BoulognesurMer into a gigantic stronghold where 150,000 soldiers were stationed.
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In order to succeed in the landing, he sought to lure the English naval forces away from the Channel. After a few vain attempts to take the fleets of Collingwood and Nelson towards the West Indies, Admiral de Villeneuve allowed himself to be imprisoned in front of Cadiz, off Cape Trafalgar, to attract the English there.
But he soon receives a counterorder and must go to the Mediterranean. Two days after leaving the harbor, on October 21, 1805, the French ships commanded by Villeneuve were intercepted by twentyseven English ships led by the flamboyant Admiral Nelson...
A gripping military and human story with a facetoface encounter between two completely opposite admirals.

00:00 The battle of Aboukir
07:34 Boulogne camps
18:50 The Villeneuve countryside
30:30 Villeneuve returns to CADIZ
36:20 Trafalgar progress

Trafalgar
Director: Fabrice Hourlier
Authors: Marc Eisenchteter, Fabrice Hourlier
Producers: ARTE FRANCE, MEDIA VIDEO COMPAGNIE
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