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On 21 October each year the commissioned officers of the Royal Navy celebrate the victory at the Battle of
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newspaper, the first periodical to report on the battle. Some sailors died in
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on 11 November was created. However, Trafalgar Day was still marked as a public day each year. Around 1993, it was rumoured that
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