The Dreadnought Hoax
The\xa0Dreadnought\xa0hoax\xa0was a\xa0practical joke\xa0pulled by\xa0Horace de Vere Cole\xa0in 1910. Cole tricked the\xa0Royal Navy\xa0into showing their\xa0flagship, the\xa0battleship\xa0HMS\xa0Dreadnought, to a fake delegation of\xa0Abyssinian\xa0royals. The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the\xa0Bloomsbury Group, among whom some of Cole's collaborators numbered. The hoax was a repeat of a similar impersonation which Cole and\xa0Adrian Stephenhad organised while they were students at Cambridge in 1905.
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