Channel Crusade (Brest Rendezvous)

Summary
The Channel Crusade of 1805 was one of the most major naval battles in the entirety of the Napoleonic War, and by far the largest battle in the War of the Third Coalition. An estimated 25 Franco-Spanish ships were involved in intense combat against Great Britain's coastal bases and some 15 English ships that had been lucky to begin sailing before the battle began. The battle was in the favor of the larger and more coordinated Franco-Spanish fleet, as the small amount of English ships dispatched were in confusion and uncoordinated.

Aftermath
Past midnight, the battle came to a halt with the retreat of the victorious Franco-Spanish fleet. Much of the coastal defense of Great Britain had been destroyed, along with 21 ships and 3 ports. The battle did not come with no casualties on the other side, though. 6 of the Franco-Spanish ships sustained heavy damage but managed to retreat with the rest of the fleet, 4 sunk, and nearly every other ship sustained nonfatal damages.