Captain Nemo

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Captain Nemo is the protagonist of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and also appears in Mysterious Island (1874).

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Protagonist - Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - 1870 - Mysterious Island - 1874

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In the initial draft of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Nemo was a Polish noble vengeful because of the murder of his family during the Russian repression of the Polish insurrection of 1863-1864. Verne's editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel feared a book ban in the Russian market and offending a French ally, the Russian Empire. He made Verne obscure Nemo's motivation in the first book. It's in the sequel (Mysterious Island), where Nemo presents himself as prince Dakkar, the Hindu son of an Indian rajah and nephew of Tippoo Sahib, having a deep hatred of the British conquest of India. After the Sepoy mutiny, he devotes himself to scientific research and develops an advanced electric submarine, the Nautilus. He and a crew of his loyals cruise the seas, battling injustice, especially slavery. The gold of Spanish ships sunk at the Bay of Vigo provided them with money.

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Polish noble - Polish insurrection of 1863-1864 - Pierre-Jules Hetzel - Russian Empire - Hindu - India - Rajah - Tippoo Sahib - British - Conquest - Sepoy mutiny - Submarine - ''Nautilus'' - Slavery - Vigo

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