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Referenced when discussing how many sailors could not swim, noting 'this is a theme of the Master and Commander series, isn't it? The Patrick O'Brien books.'

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Referenced as a source on Nelson, quoted as saying 'it was not in the Admiral's nature to dither with an enemy in sight.' John Sugden is a Nelson biographer whose work is being cited.

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Referenced as author of a history of the Royal Navy, quoted as saying the Battle of the Nile 'was undoubtedly the greatest victory in British naval history.'

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A poem published in 1826, quoted at length and described as 'one of the kind of classic Victorian poetic illustrations of pluck and heroism.'