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torpedo to anchor cable, remove pin, escape. Up to 18 prepared
torpedo to anchor cable, remove pin, escape. Up to 18 prepared
A night intended to break Napoleon’s invasion fleet ended with eighteen men paddling into a guarded harbor and not a single torpedo hitting its mark - every catamaran returned empty and one fireship detonated, killing an entire French boarding party. How did a forty-thousand-pound bounty, clockwork detonators, and a plan involving up to eighteen torpedo-catamarans fail so completely?
In this episode, you’ll hear the sequence of events that led Robert Fulton to Portsmouth Dockyard, the weapons he brought, and the choices made by…
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