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PMarione
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 Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: Samuel Pepys on Trafalgar |
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From another list and the British embassy in Latvia:
| Quote: | | Britain is a major trade partner of Latvia. In eleventh place among exporters to Latvia, the UK is equal first place (with Germany) as a destination for Latvian exports. This is a continuation of much older trading traditions going back to the Middle Ages. The historian Pepys wrote that the British used Baltic pine for ships’ masts and Baltic hemp for ropes in the battle at Trafalgar. In the 1920s, British consumers bought 40% of Latvian exports. |
http://ukinlatvia.fco.gov.uk/en/our-office-in-latvia/our-embassy-in-riga/history-bilateral-relations
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Peter
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I would have thought that he would have been dead some years before the battle off Cape Trafalgar!
...Pepys wrote that the British used Baltic pine for ships’ masts and Baltic hemp for ropes in the battle at Trafalgar.... |
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PMarione
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Probably 202 years I think. |
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