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Celebrating Captain John Quilliam RN

ix new stamps commemorate the Manx hero and politician who fought alongside Admiral Horatio Nelson in the Battle of Trafalgar, on the 250th anniversary of his birth. at the Battle of Trafalgar, where it is claimed that he steered the ship into battle.

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