The result was the most glorious day in the proud annals of the English Marine.

The combined fleets sailed from Cadiz on the 19th of October, and on the morning of the 21st--the very day after Mack surrendered at Ulm--they came in sight of the English Admiral, off Cape Trafalgar.
The reader is referred to the historian of Lord Nelson for the particulars of this great action.

The French and Spaniards awaited the attack in a double line.

Nelson hoisted the famous signal--"England expects every man to do his duty"; charged in two columns, and broke their array at the first onset.

The battle, nevertheless, was sternly contested.