Editing Battle of Trafalgar (section)

===Novels===
* [[The Knight of Sainte-Hermine|''Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine'']] (1869), by [[Alexandre Dumas]], is an adventure story in which the main character is alleged to be the one who shot Nelson.
* ''Trafalgar'' (1873), a Spanish novel about the battle, written by [[Benito Pérez Galdós]] and starting point of the historical cycle ''[[Episodios Nacionales]]''. It is a fictional account of a boy aboard the ship ''Santísima Trinidad''.
* In [[James Clavell]]'s 1966 novel ''[[Tai-Pan (novel)|Tai-Pan]]'', the Scots chieftain of Hong Kong, Dirk Struan, reflects on his experiences as a [[powder monkey]] on board HMS ''Royal Sovereign'' at Trafalgar.
* In the unfinished novel ''[[Hornblower and the Crisis]]'' (1967) in the [[Horatio Hornblower]] series by [[C. S. Forester]], Hornblower was to deliver false orders to Villeneuve causing him to send his fleet out of Cádiz and hence fight the battle. In ''Hornblower and the Atropos'' (1953), Hornblower is put in charge of Admiral Nelson's funeral in London.
* In ''Ramage at Trafalgar'' (1986), by [[Dudley Pope]], [[Lord Ramage|Ramage]] commands the fictitious [[frigate]] HMS ''Calypso'', which is attached to Nelson's fleet.
* In ''[[Sharpe's Trafalgar]]'' (2000), by [[Bernard Cornwell]], Sharpe finds himself at the battle aboard the fictitious HMS ''Pucelle''.
* In the 2006 novel ''[[His Majesty's Dragon]]'', the first of the historical fantasy [[Temeraire (series)|''Temeraire'' series]] by [[Naomi Novik]], in which aerial [[dragon]]-mounted combat units form major divisions of European militaries during the Napoleonic Wars, Trafalgar is actually a massive feint by Napoleon to distract British forces away from the aerial and seaborne invasion of Britain near [[Dover]]. Nelson survives, though he is burned by dragon fire.
* In the 2017 fantasy novel, [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36353709-the-archimage-s-fourth-daughter The Archmage’s Fourth Daughter], by Lyndon Hardy, Nelson at Trafalgar was referenced by the character Ashley as inspiration for her plan of attack in Part 5: “Eightfold Path Neverending”, Chapter 6: “Plan The Work, Then Work The Plan”.