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| Title | The Past and Future of the British Navy |
| Author | Edward Plunkett Baron Dunsany |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 216 pages |
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