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The boat that sank Bonaparte Andrew Roberts on a 'biography' of the ship that haunted Napoleon from beginning to end
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Billy Ruffian:
The Bellerophon
and the Downfall
of Napoleon
by David Cordingly
Bloomsbury, pounds 16.99, 355 pp
pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
HMS BELLEROPHON , a 74-gun ship of the line, was built in 1782 and
named after the Greek hero who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In the
way that British servicemen have of simplifying difficult or foreign-
sounding words - "Wipers" for Ypres, for example, or "Plug Street"
for Ploegsteert - her crew nicknamed her "Billy Ruffian".
It was apposite; Bellerophon roughed it through the French
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, taking part ...
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Olusegun Obasanjo's second coming
Magazine article from: New African
; General Olusegun Obasanjo has triumphed in the presidential...needs to come out of the dark ages. Obasanjo has to build a new nation. Alan Rake reports. So General Olusegun Obasanjo is back and is more or less certain...
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Bitter-sweet my life with Obasanjo.(NIGERIA)(Oluremi Obasanjo's book on Olusegun Obasanjo)
Magazine article from: New African
; ...in public. But Mrs Oluremi Obasanjo, the first wife of the former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, has thrown it all out of the...the former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, has given a new twist to this...
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Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library And Matters Arising.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...COMTEX) Yesterday was President Olusegun Obasanjo's day in Abeokuta as friends...of the Governing Board of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL...sense in it. The point is that Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, given...
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NIGERIA: OBASANJO ASUME LA PRESIDENCIA TRAS 15 AÑOS DE DICTADURA.(Olusegun Obasanjo, presidente electo de Nigeria)(TT: Nigeria: Obasanjo assumes the presidency after fifteen years of dictatorship.)(TA: Olusegun Obasanjo, President elect of Nigeria)(Columna)
News Wire article from: Noticias en Español
; ...IPS) El presidente electo Olusegun Obasanjo asumir como jefe de Estado de...el pas ms poblado de Africa. Obasanjo, de 62 aos de edad, sustituye...fue presidido por el general Olusegun Obasanjo", record este viernes el diario...
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Nigeria's Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo: A Rendezvous With History
Newspaper article from: Los Angeles Sentinel
; ...09-1994 Nigeria's Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo: A Rendezvous With History...since independence, is General Olusegun Obasanjo. Indeed, through a combination...Ramat Murtala Muhammed, General Olusegun Obasanjo "reluctantly" accepted to...
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President Olusegun Obasanjo will seek re-election in Nigeria next year
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...ABUJA, Nigeria Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, whose 1999 election ended 15...over going into the elections. Obasanjo's announcement was widely expected. Critics had accused Obasanjo of seeking to increase his chances...
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Profile: Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian presidential candidate
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; Profile: Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian presidential candidate ABUJA, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is seeking for a second term in the presidential election, which...
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Between Remi And Olusegun Obasanjo [book review].
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...life, but none comes close to Madam Oluremi Obasanjo's book, Bitter Sweet - My Life With Obasanjo. Remi Obasanjo is former President Olusegun Obasanjo's first wife and probably the only one respectably wedded to him. Even Stella's marriage...
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The Real Olusegun Obasanjo.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...and tested statement. And so it is with General Olusegun Obasanjo (rtd). He has apparently fooled some Nigerians...account, it leaves the impression that one General Olusegun Obasanjo single-handedly fought the Nigerian civil war and...
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OLUSEGUN OBASANJO PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA OLUSEGUN OBASANJO HOLDS A MEDIA AVAILABILITY FOLLOWING HIS MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BUSH
Transcript from: Washington Transcript Service
; ...Transcript Service 12-02-2004 PRESIDENT OBASANJO HOLDS A MEDIA AVAILABILITY FOLLOWING HIS MEETING...PRESIDENT BUSH DECEMBER 2, 2004 SPEAKER: OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA [*] OBASANJO: Well, I just want to thank you very much...
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