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TIL that Admiral Nelson's Spanish opponent at the Battle of Trafalgar, Federico Gravina said "I am a dying man, but I die happy; I am going, I hope and trust, to join Nelson, the greatest hero that the world perhaps has produced." while dying from wounds sustained during the battle

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