Editing Battle of Trafalgar (section)

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[[File:MuseoNaval Hispalois bajas españolas batalla Trafalgar.jpg|thumb|Report of Spanish losses in the combat of 21&nbsp;October.]]

When Rosily arrived in Cádiz, he found only five French ships, rather than the 18 he was expecting. The surviving ships remained bottled up in Cádiz until 1808 when [[Peninsular War|Napoleon invaded Spain]]. The French ships were then [[Capture of Rosily Squadron|seized by the Spanish forces]] and put into service against France. HMS ''Victory'' made her way to Gibraltar for repairs, carrying Nelson's body. She put into Rosia Bay, Gibraltar and after emergency repairs were carried out, returned to Britain. Many of the injured crew were taken ashore at Gibraltar and treated in the Naval Hospital. Men who subsequently died from injuries sustained at the battle are buried in or near the [[Trafalgar Cemetery]], at the south end of [[Main Street, Gibraltar]]. One [[Royal Marine]] officer, Captain Charles Adair, was killed on board ''Victory'', and Royal Marine Lieutenant Lewis Buckle Reeve was seriously wounded and laid next to Nelson.{{efn|Reeve's Naval General Service Medal with Trafalgar clasp and Muster List for HMS ''Victory'' are on show at the [[Royal Marines Museum]], [[Southsea]], Britain {{harvp|BBC staff|2008}}.}}

The battle took place the day after the [[Battle of Ulm]], and Napoleon did not hear about it for weeks—the [[Grande Armée]] had left Boulogne to fight Britain's allies before they could combine their armies. He had tight control over the Paris media and kept the defeat a closely guarded secret for over a month, at which point newspapers proclaimed it to have been a tremendous victory.{{sfnp|Adkins|2004}} In a counter-propaganda move, a fabricated text declaring the battle a "spectacular victory" for the French and Spanish was published in ''Herald'' and attributed to ''[[Le Moniteur Universel]]''.<ref>See for example: {{cite journal |author=NC staff |date=July–December 1805 |title=First Bulletin of the Grand Naval Army [From the Moniteur] As it appeared in the Herald. Battle of Trafalgar |journal=Naval Chronicle |volume=14 |location=Fleet Street, London |publisher=J. Gold}} Cited by {{harvp|ACS staff |2009}}.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Westmacott |first1=Charles Molloy |last2=Jones |first2=Stephen |year=1806 |title=The Spirit of the Public Journals |volume=9 |publisher=James Ridgeway |page=322 |quote = Being an impartial selection of the most exquisite essays and ''jeux d'esprits'', principally prose, that appear in the newspapers and other publications ... Footnote of one claim: 'This turned out to be really asserted afterwards by the French newspapers.' The authors hence believe the rest to be a fabrication. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpp349sTMhwC&pg=PA322 |access-date=27 March 2015 |archive-date=24 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324110549/https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpp349sTMhwC&pg=PA322 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Vice-Admiral Villeneuve was taken prisoner aboard his flagship and taken back to Britain. After his parole in 1806, he returned to France, where he was found dead in his inn room during a stop on the way to Paris, with six stab wounds in the chest from a dining knife. It was officially recorded that he had committed suicide. Despite the British victory over the Franco-Spanish navies, Trafalgar had negligible impact on the remainder of the [[War of the Third Coalition]]. Less than two months later, Napoleon decisively defeated the Third Coalition at the [[Battle of Austerlitz]], knocking Austria out of the war and forcing the dissolution of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. Although Trafalgar meant France could no longer challenge Britain at sea, Napoleon proceeded to establish the [[Continental System]] in an attempt to deny Britain trade with the continent. The Napoleonic Wars continued for another ten years after Trafalgar.{{sfnp|Harding|1999|pp=96–117}} Nelson's body was preserved in a barrel of brandy for the trip home to a hero's funeral.{{sfnp|Adkins|2004a}}{{page needed|date=April 2021}}