Battle of Trafalgar the Spanish official account from The Edinburgh Evening Courant, December 5, 1805, original newspaper report of an eye witness account "At eight minutes before Twelve an English three-decker, with a flag at her main-top, penetrated our line in the centre, supported by the ships in her wake...another entered between the L'Aigle and the San Ildefonso, and from this momment the action was confined to a furious combat between the whole of the enemy's sqadron, and the half of ours, the greater part of the time within pistol shot" page two, cols 4-5, duty stamp to front right of page 1