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Word: camperdown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...when the underpaid, scurvy-ridden crews off Spithead and off the Nore turned on their officers. That came in the British Navy's most glorious period. Nelson had just helped win the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Six months after the mutiny Admiral Duncan beat the Dutch at Camperdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sailors & Fairy Belles | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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