The Battle of Trafalgar (painting) installation. The painting now hangs in the National Maritime Museum, also in Greenwich, London. This work depicts a scene from the Battle of Trafalgar, a naval battle fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar in southwest Spain. The British had twenty-seven ships to the thirty-three of the Franco-Spanish fleet. Despite this, the British came out as decisively victorious and captured or destroyed nineteen of the Franco-Spanish ships. Admiral Nelson, of the British Navy, took an unconventional approach to this battle and split his fleet into two lines, one led by his flagship "Victory" and the other by
French destroyer Milan for talks with the British government. After France surrendered to Germany, "Milan" served with the naval forces of Vichy France. She was at Casablanca in French Morocco when Allied forces invaded French North Africa in Operation Torch on 8 November 1942. She was in action with United States Navy TF 34 during the Naval Battle of Casablanca and was beached after sustaining shell hits from the destroyer . French destroyer Milan The French destroyer "Milan" was one of six ("contre-torpilleurs") built for the French Navy in the interwar period. Following the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, "Milan" escorted