The Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805 was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against Napoleon’s French fleets during the War of the Third Coalition in the Napoleonic, War. Twenty-seven British ships led by Admiral Horatio Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French ships off the southwest coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar. The way Nelson Defeated Napoleon and the French fleet, was that he divided The French and kept them away from each other so it was easier to defeat. The battle of Trafalgar proved that it was possible to defeat Napoleon and sparked hope for the rest of Europe that maybe it was possible to win the war against France. Napoleon was angered by the defeat and about two months later, Napoleon decisively defeated the Third Coalition at the Battle of Austerlitz, kicking Austria out of the war and forcing the ending of the Holy Roman Empire