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Peter Moore: Thomas Cochrane's Explosion at Basque Roads (1809)
On 11 April 1809 Thomas Cochrane, RN, made one of the most famous assaults in British naval history. At the Battle of Basque Roads – at which he destroyed much of the French Atlantic Fleet – he detonated an explosion ves...
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