Trafalgar

Gabriel Araceli, a boy of Cádiz, tells how he served aboard the Santísima Trinidad at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The first of Galdós's Episodios nacionales mixes a child's eye view with the fall of Spain's fleet. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.