Why was Trafalgar Square built?

Trafalgar Square situated in London was built to memorialize Lord Horatio Nelson’s victory against Napoleon’s navy at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The original name was to have been King William the Fourth’s Square, but George Ledwell Taylor suggested the name Trafalgar Square. A large monument to Lord Nelson, who won the battle of Trafalgar, stands in the center of the square. The four-sided base of Nelson’s column depicts Nelson’s naval victories. On the North — The Battle of the Nile; the East — The Bombardment of Copenhagen; the West — The Battle of St Vincent and the South — The Death of Nelson.