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In 1802, municipal authorities of Rye, on the English coast, hired an armed sentry to keep watch for a Napoleonic invasion. The last man in the job was “Chummy” Barton. The job had been handed down in his family since 1802. “Chummy” died in 1944, and the city council called off the watch — 123 years after the death of Napoleon.
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