The entrance to Trafalgar Cemetery can be found in a shady spot at the south end of Main Street in Gibraltar.
Marked by Charles V Wall, you will need to go past Southport Gate and you will find Trafalgar Cemetery which has close links to Admiral Horacio Nelson.
In October 1805, one of history's greatest sea battles was fought off Trafalgar Point, a few miles north of Gibraltar - the Battle of Trafalgar. Desite victory for Britain, Admiral Nelson was killed during the battle on board HMS Victory.
The majority of the sailors killed in the battle were buried at sea, but 2 were interred in the Trafalgar Cemetery, along with others who died in the naval action off Algeciras between the French and British fleets in 1801. Other gravestones indicate victims of the yellow fever epidemics of 1804, 1813 and 1814.
The association of the graveyard with the Battle of Trafalgar was not realised until many years after the event. Admiral Nelson's body, meanwhile, had been pickled in a barrel of brandy before being brought ashore at Rosia Bay in Gibraltar.
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