Fleet Prison. 12C-1844. London debtors prison.

Aboukir, Battle. Nelson defeats French fleet, 1798. Napoleon defeats Turks, 1799.

Copenhagen, Battle. 1801. Nelson destroys Danish fleet. 1807. British bomb Copenhagen.

Duquesne, Abraham. 1610-88. French defeat Spanish, Dutch fleets.

Falklands, Battle. 1914. British destroy German fleet.

Iphigeneia. Greek daughter of Agamemnon, sacrificed to save the Achaean fleet.

Jutland, Battle. 1916. Jellicoe’s indecisive attempt to trap German fleet.

Medway, Battle. 1667. Dutch destroy British fleet. Breda Treaty.

Mers-el-Kébir. 1940 British sink French fleet so Axis can’t seize them. French bomb Gibraltar.

Nimitz, Chester. 1885-1966. US Admiral of Pacific Fleet, WWII. Received Japanese surrender on Missouri.

Nore Mutiny. 1797. British North Sea fleet protest conditions. Parker hung.

Salamis, Battle. 480BC. Greek naval victory over superior Persian fleet.

Sceptics. We can know nothing more than the fleeting images of consciousness. Most is unknowable. Pyrrho.

Schley, Winfield. 1839-1911. Destroyed Spanish fleet at Santiago.

Sluis, Battle. 1340. French fleet destroyed by English.

Tirpitz, Alfred von. 1849-1930. German naval minister 1897-1916. Built fleet to rival Royal Navy.

Trafalgar, Battle. 1805. Nelson’s victory over the French and Spanish fleets. British naval superiority secured. Nelson killed. Ends Napoleon’s plans to invade England.

Tsushima, Battle. 1905. Russian fleet destroyed by Japan after sailing from Atlantic. Ends Russo-Japanese war. Embarasses Nicholas II. Dogger Bank.

Two-Power Standard. 1889. Hamilton declares that British fleet should be at least equal to naval strength of any 2 other countries. Abandoned 1912 by Churchill.

Abbaye Prison. Principal site of 1792 September Massacres.

Amnesty International. 1961. Human rights watchdog NGO fighting for political prisoners and victims of torture. MacBride.

Artagnan, d’. Guarded Fouquet at Vincennes Prison.

Bastille. 1370. Paris fortified residence for Charles V, became a state prison, arsenal 1397. Stormed July 14, 1789. Symbolic overthrow of monarch’s power. Lettres de Cachet.

Bataan Death March. 1942. Japanese force 60 mile march; 54 of 70,000 prisoners arrive.

Beer Hall Putsch. 1923. Hitler’s unsuccessful Munich uprising. Wrote Mein Kampf while imprisoned 8 months.

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