An excerpt from Napoleon and St. Helena, 1815-1816, by Roger Morriss, describing Admiral George Cockburn sailing Napoleon to exile to the island of St. Helena. Ancestor of the AVA's late and great Alexander Cockburn, Admiral of the fleet Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, GCB, FRS (22 April 1772 – 19 August 1853) was renowned for his expertise on the latest steam and screw technologies, and also for his ability to manage seamen without resorting necessarily to the lash.
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Iran, Russia and The New Zealand Insurer That Kept Their Sanctioned Oil
Flowing
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Last Christmas, the tanker Yug cruised out of the Chinese port of Qingdao
after offloading 2 million barrels of sanctioned Iranian oil. Near the
Arctic, a ...
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