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That unsporting diminutive admiral has had a class and at least one battleship named after him. While I am pleased that Duncan remains a current front line warship I wouldn't like him to fall behind the little fellow in the naming ranks just because the frogs got in a lucky shot. Trafalgar was all very well but the Frenchies and the rebel Hibernians would have been facing us from across the Irish Sea had not Camperdown hashed their potatoes. Not to mention how Aboukir Bay would have turned out without the lesson in tactics (and that would be sad, you can't take it from Nelson that sound of L'Orient leaving the battle could be heard in Cairo).
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David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
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