Trafalgar Way Number One Cache Traditional Geocache
Sir Lose-a-lot: As this cache has been muggled I have decide to archive it.
Trafalgar Way Number One Cache
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The location of cache is under tree cover. Therefore the co-ordinates will slightly suspect. Please make use of the clue.
2005 is the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle Of Trafalgar. On the 21st of October 1805 the Royal Navy won a decisive battle against a concentration of Franco-Spanish ships off of Cape Trafalgar. Sadly, Vice Admiral Lord Nelson, commanding the British fleet at Trafalgar, was mortally wounded and died later that day. This victory was a significant point in the war against the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Several days after the great battle, Rear Admiral Collingwood, who had taken command of the Fleet after Lord Nelson's death, needed to report the victory to the Admiralty in London. He sent Lieutenant John Richards Lapenotiere onboard HMS Pickle with dispatches for the attention of Mr William Marsden, Secretary to the Navy, at the Admiralty.
Lieutenant Lapenotiere landed at Falmouth and went by post-chaise to London. The journey took 37 hours with 21 changes of horse. On his way through Cornwall, Lapenotiere would have passed along the old coach road between Five Lanes and Polyphant. It is along this route I have placed my commemorative cache.
Don't miss visiting the nearby old guide post which has been guiding travellers for centuries.
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