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1949: Unable to resist the irony, Britain defeats Napoleon one more time

Boing Boing·Jason Weisberger·about 1 month ago
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12:22 pm Thu Apr 23, 2026 The Battle of Trafalgar is generally considered settled history: a decisive British victory over Napoleon's fleet. But in 1949, the Royal Navy found one last loose end in HMS Implacable, a rebadged, captured French warship that had survived for nearly a century and a half. Nelson's flagship, the HMS Victory, is a national icon. The Victory gets preservation, reverence, and schoolchildren. The last remnant of Napoleon's navy gets scuttled after being put to a century and a half of hard labor. Some knives turn slowly. Previously: • Mass photo-shoot in Trafalgar Square this Saturday • Reenactment of Nelson's funeral on the Thames 48-year-old mom crushing 'Candy Crush' tournament after accidentally entering Erryn Rhoden, a 48-year-old Ohio mom who works at her family's roofing company, is unexpectedly dominating the Candy Crush Saga All Stars Tournament.…

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