For two years, the two fleets chased each other around the Atlantic, the West Indies, and the Mediterranean, before finally coming together for the Battle of Trafalgar. The British fleet was commanded by Admiral Horacio Nelson and the combined Franco/Spanish fleet by General Villenueve. He was planning an invasion of Britain, but to do this, he needed to be sure of his supremacy on the seas. At this time, Napoleon was allied with Spain and reigned supreme in Europe. It took place just off the coast of Cape Trafalgar between Caños de Meca and Conil on the Costa de la Luz. The Battle of Trafalgar was considered to be the greatest sea battle with sailing ships. According to “History-Battle of Trafalgar,” The second lyric on this broadside, “The Glorious Victory,” is a narrative of the battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805, the sea fight in which Lord Horatio Nelson gained lasting fame and also lost his life. In the Town and Country Song Book, it was off “the New York coast.” Keller, Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources and Early American Songsters, United States Chronicle, OctoProvidence Gazette, February 19, 1803). The song persisted in newspapers and songsters-appearing in twenty songsters between 18-and chapbook and broadside literature well into the nineteenth century, sometimes off “England’s,” sometimes “Britain’s” coast” (Roud R. The sixth line was changed from “England’s coast” to “the American coast” for Coverly’s broadside. The opera was performed in America many times the first, in Boston, on Janu(Porter, With an Air 494). He survives and arrives just too late to save her. It is a song praising sailors but tells a sad tale-Tom’s love, Nan, dies of a broken heart thinking he had been wrecked. 1820) for the comic opera by Joseph Mazzinghi and William Reeve called The Turnpike Gate (1799). The lyrics were written by Thomas Knight (d. “Tom Starboard” is a song introduced on the London stage by Charles Incledon (see also Heaving the Lead). His proud addition of the date, “October, 1810,” also marks the fifth anniversary of Horatio Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar, the topic of the second song on the sheet. In 1810 the Boston newspapers carried on animated discussions about British press gangs and abuses, perhaps the catalyst for this early print from Coverly’s new press on Milk Street.
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