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1) Nick of time
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Nick McIver is no ordinary boy, fighting pirates, beating Nazis at their own game, and traveling through time.
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An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle, from the coauthor of Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History.
In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy, under Lord Horatio Nelson, dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive...
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Criterion collection volume 487
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Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century. Emma Hart is a beautiful dance hall girl who is sent by her latest lover to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Sir William considers Emma a rare piece of art he must possess. Sir William introduces Emma to Naples' elite society and she soon marries him. Later, Horatio Nelson, a famous English Naval office arrives. Soon, a scandalous,...
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Emma Hamilton was England's first superstar. She fought her way out of dire poverty to become a fashion icon, an Ambassador's wife, a confidante of both Queen Marie Antoinette and the Queen of Naples, and the mistress of Lord Nelson, England's greatest military hero. Drawing on hundreds of previously undiscovered letters, England's Mistress follows Emma's dramatic journey from the slums of Northern England to the Royal Court of Naples, and from the...
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Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to become the first person to drive an automobile across the continent -- a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific -- Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horeseless carriage", in less...
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Three programs that reveal the adventures of Napoleon: Napoleon's obsession looks at his adventure in the desert among the pyramids, the Nile and the temples of Egypt. Napoleon's lost fleet examines events that led to the loss of his fleet when destroyed by Britain's Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. The Napoleon murder mystery tells two interwoven tales about his last year on St. Helena in 1821 and the scientific detective work...
10) Fighting sail
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Seafarers volume 2
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Profusely illustrated text discusses the English navy in the late eighteenth century and describes its ships, men, and battles with France and Spain.
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