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Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

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As with George Washington, 30 years later and across the sea England's Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson was outgunned and outmanned as he faced Napoleon's 33 ship navy off Spain's Cape Trafalgar in 1805. And as Washington was to adopt tactics to defeat a superior force, Nelson also needed to ignore English tactical naval orthodoxy.

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There would be no parallel lines of battle drawn up with great ships exchanging massive "broadsides" of canon fire. Rather Nelson chose to bring his fleet in perpendicular to the enemy. And although the Admiral was advised not to put his flagship, HMS Victory, at the progression's head, he did so regardless.

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The naval battle, one of the greatest in history, was won by the English, but Nelson was killed. Having requested not to be buried at sea. the Admiral was pickled in a ship's brandy barrel and returned to England where the surviving officers toasted their fallen commander from his cask and declared the liquor to be "full-bodied".

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