Trafalgar
'Trafalgar' Summary
Gabriel, el protagonista narrador de los Episodios nacionales, asiste, siendo aún un muchacho al servicio de don Alonso Gutiérrez de Cisniega, marino retirado, al primero de los portentosos y fantásticos sucesos que irá narrando a lo largo de la obra: la derrota de la escuadra combinada, francesa y española, ante la imponente armada inglesa al mando del almirante Nelson, frente a las costas de Cádiz y en las inmediaciones del Cabo de Trafalgar
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Benito Pérez Galdós
Spain
Benito Pérez Galdós a Spanish realist novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as...
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