Word: gravina
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...usual frock coat and quietly paced the upper deck-until a musketeer, lodged only 50 feet away in the rigging of the Redoubtable, shot him in the spine. Of the mass of tributes to Nelson, two stand out. One is that of a dying Trafalgar enemy, Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other is from Sir William Hamilton-that "strange man" who, by all the rules, should have been Nelson's worst enemy, but who wrote instead: "God bless...