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The East India Company and Nelson

Interviews with Dr John McAleer on the foundation of the East India Company and Professor Andrew Lambert on Horatio Nelson

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Nelson stands in the Nile culling crocodiles in James Gillray's cartoon 'Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt' (1798). The crocodiles represent captured or destroyed French ships at the battle of the Nile, while Nelson is cast as a cross between Moses and Hercules. (Archiv Gerstenberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
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