At dawn on the 15th of June, 1944, hundreds of American landing craft edged toward the southern shores of Saipan. The men ...

Battle damaged flag with compelling story of Admiral Lord Nelson's victory at Battle of Trafalgar is a £1-million auction ...

From fighting Napoleon at sea to founding farmland in Upper Canada, Jonathan Petch's remarkable journey is etched into the very logs of his historic family home that is now preserved in Aurora ...

A flag with shrapnel from the Battle of Trafalgar has a compelling story to tell and is likely to sell for nearly £1 million.

Scraps occasionally appear in sales of the most famous flag from the battle, from the Victory. It draped Nelson’s coffin at his funeral in London in January 1806, after his body was sent back to ...

The British naval hero is primed for action as he writes from on board HMS Victory that he 'hopes for a good battle which God of his infinite mercy grant us very soon'.

In the early 1980s, John McKay wanted to build a model of the HMS Victory, Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. But when he searched for architectural drawings ...

Join us as the Daily Express live blogs about the Battle of Trafalgar, when Admiral Nelson took on the combined navies of France and Spain 219 years ago as if it were happening today.

HMS Victory, on which Admiral Lord Nelson sailed to defeat the French and Spanish forces and his own death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is now the oldest ship in the world still in naval ...

Remembering James Eaton, Battle of Trafalgar hero from land-locked West Midlands In a storm of shrapnel and splinters, they fought for their lives on decks slippery with sea and blood.