Word: natividad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story plays only a minor and ironic part, centres around the younger (mythical) sister of Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Forester's big guns are trained on Hornblower's spectacular sea fights, his three engagements against the 50-gun Spanish man-of-war Natividad off the coast of South America, his daring raids on French men-of-war in the Mediterranean, his recapture of a British 10-gun cutter at Nantes, his escape from Napoleon's firing squad...
...Simplicio & Lucio Godino made world news by applying for licenses to marry Natividad and Victorina Motos in Manila. The marriage license clerk objected for fear of compounding collateral bigamy but the sisters and brothers eventually were married. They organized a vaudeville act in which they danced, saxophoned and bantered through South and North America...