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I suppose that most people knew it, but I recently completed again the Cap Trelawney story line and there's a lot of reference to it :

• The battle of Cap Trelawney happened during October 1805, the same month and year as the Battle of Trafalgar. We learn that thanks to Nadasky's journal

• It opposed the empire of England and the empire of Spain or Portugal since in the game they say "La Coroa" aswell as La Corona. Trafalgar opposed England and both Spain and France, we could suppose that France was present during the battle of Cap Trelawney but it isn't said in the game.

• The geographic localisation, both battle took place next to the south of the Old World coastline. And names are similar looking : Cap Trelawney and Cap Trafalgar

• The strategy use by Nadasky is the same used by Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar, rather than making two parallel battles lines and engage a shooting competition both admirals decided to head straight into the enemy line to create perpendicular lines, being exposed by the enemy cannonballs during the early stage of the Battle.

• Both admirals got wounded by musket shots during the battle, but unlike Horatio Nelson (he died just after learning of the victory), Nadasky survived the battle as we know from his journal.

• The battle ended as a decisive naval victory for England, and a terrible defeat for La Corona, which was the same outcome in real life during the battle of Trafalgar.

• In the in game texts we learn that the flagship of La Corona's fleet was named "Santísima Vitoria" (or something like that), and it was considered as the biggest Ship of the Line ever build at the time. During the battle of Trafalgar, the flagship of the Spanish navy was indeed one of the biggest Ship of the Line of the time, named the "Santísima Trinidad", and both were lost during their respective battles.

There's probably more clues in the story line or in the map but as far as I know I've listed everything up here. If you have any other details to add or some of mine to correct don't hesitate to do so !

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