Word: aftermost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the U.S.S. Constitution, now a tourist attraction in Boston Harbor, defeats the British ship off Brazil in his sixth novel, The Fortune of War) and retold in language nearly understandable to a landsman ("A burton-tackle to the chesstree. Lead aft to a snatch block fast to the aftermost ringbolts and forward free. Look alive there!"). In the new novel Napoleon has just escaped from Elba, and the two heroes must block a huge shipment of Algerian gold intended to pay the Emperor's Muslim mercenaries...
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