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The 74-gun ship of the line, the Bellerophon, was launched into a stormy and turbulent river Medway in the early afternoon of Saturday 7 October 1786. That same October, a brilliant young second lieutenant in the French army, just 17 years old, was home on leave in Ajaccio, Corsica, having completed in one year the artillery training which took most of his peers two or three. He spent his evenings poring over Plato, Buffon, and tomes such as The Art of Judging Character from Men's Faces. The lad certainly had ambition.

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