The Battle of Trafalgar
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The Battle of Bellerophon
Of the forty seven men on the bellerophons quarter deck at the start of the battle, only seven remained unwounded. The bosun thomas robinson had been blown up by a grenade, but he staggered downstairs to see the surgeon, but the cue was too long. So he staggered back on deck to see how he could help an dying of his wounds. A week later, the fighting was no less fierce with the French ship redutable and the British ship retable locked together. By bad luck for the british ship, the crew of the retable had been particularly trained and brought to a level of extraordinary efficiency at boarding enemy's ships. Despite knowing that they were
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