Seize the fire: heroism, duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar

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HarperCollins
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2006
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1st Harper Perennial ed
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"In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth-century world-dominating empire. [This] is not only a close and revealing portrait of a legendary hero in his final action but also a vivid account of the brutal realities of battle ...."--Cover, p. [4].
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