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  "textContent": "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. — Read the rest \n\nThe post 1949: Unable to resist the irony, Britain defeats Napoleon one more time appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "1949: Unable to resist the irony, Britain defeats Napoleon one more time"
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