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Yi Sun-sin's 13 Ships, Black Tuesday & Football's Birth | Oct 26–29
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From the most astonishing naval upset in history to the stock market crash that broke the world, this week's historical events span five centuries of war, invention, and catastrophe. Admiral Yi, the Erie Canal, the Football Association, Mussolini's march on Rome, and the last case of smallpox — all connected by a single week.
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On October twenty-sixth, fifteen ninety-seven, in the Myeongnyang Strait off the southwestern coast of Korea, Admiral Yi Sun-sin faced what looked like certain destruction. A Japanese fleet of roughly three hundred ships bore down on his force of just thirteen.
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