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AON

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  1. A miracle indeed - Dec 1806
  2. I've seen this happen before ... January 1806
  3. Deployment of the British Navy - June 1806
  4. Could it possibly have become another war - Aug 1843
  5. here is one you might be familiar with... 18 May 1805
  6. aftermath of the Battle of Trafalgar - 1805
  7. the 1803 invention of the Naval signal code remembered in a post of 1805
  8. Battle of Trafalgar 1805 - what happened to the men of the Tonnant (84) sent to take possession of the Santa Ana (110) after she struck her colours?
  9. This one I can, in a way, relate to. I've worked with particular entitled persons that had claimed, and attempted to claim, co-workers papers for publication.
  10. AON

    Hi

    thirty-eleven works for me. That makes me thirty-thirty-plus!
  11. A bad case of "the sailor's itch" cured! - 1804 (I double dog dare you to pick "like")
  12. Americans. (Canadians would have grabbed beer and chicken wings)
  13. An extremely close call indeed.. for those few survivors... Dec 1804
  14. Okay now, no parties of two or more, practise social distancing, and wash those darned hands sailor! - 1804
  15. Could they actually have been anxious for yet another war? Oct 1804
  16. There is always someone that just has to ruin a good thing.... 1804
  17. some people were just born lucky - 1804
  18. Arghhhhhhhh! He be a traitor for sure. Keel haul 'em and then hang 'em from the yard arm till he dries out. Then do it again!
  19. Yes. Quite! At first I imagined it might have some Irish relationship and might had possibly been due to "the flight of the Wild Geese". But a quick google of the surname killed that idea.
  20. A Sailor's Poem : The Burial - 1803
  21. reporting in - 1803
  22. One way to treat prisoners of war... a nice relaxing vacation in the low mountain region of Epinal, France. T'was a more civil time.
  23. that ought to teach them not to take the keys and go for a spin in the harbour - 1830
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