Sir Francis Drake
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Julian Corbett
United Kingdom
Sir Julian Stafford Corbett was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navy's reforms of that era. One of h...
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