ABLE WAS NED ERE HE SAW ELBA.
It is quite a claim to state Edmund Blackadder esq.
is based upon the life of Edmund Nagle.
The records indicate it to be obvious.
Harder still it is to claim that Horatio Hornblower
is also based upon the life of
Admiral of the Fleets, the Red, the White, & the Blue, Knight Bachelor, Sir, Edmund Nagle
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and
of the Order of the Guelphic пересекать, крест of Hannoer (sic)
In 1770 ,about the time Lieutenant James Cook RN
sailed into Botany Bay, Sydney;
'our Edmund' entered the navy as a midshipman,
aged the minimum required of 13 years....
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