How One Man Gave China The Opportunity To Rule The World
And why we’re speaking English and not Mandarin today.
7 min readNov 7, 2021
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Showing The Flag Of The Peacock Throne
For Westerners interested in naval history, one ship looms above all others: the HMS Victory, where Admiral Horatio Nelson gave his life in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar even as he dashed Napoleon’s dreams of…