Nation Collection (page 11)

Flag for the South Pole expedition
The flag presented by Queen Alexandra to Captain Scott on 25 June 1910, to be carried on the South Pole Terra Nova expedition and planted at the most southerly point reached

Carrie Nation, the Saloon Smasher
Carrie Nation (1846-1911), American temperance campaigner known as the Saloon Smasher because of her use of vandalism to get her views across -- she would generally enter a saloon

Union of Lublin
Zygmunt (Sigismund) II August brings about the Union of Lublin whereby Poland and Lithuania become one nation

Paris Assemblee Nation
The old buildings of the Assemblee Nationale are demolished to make room for something more prestigious

Church Property
An ordinance declaring that Church property is henceforward at the disposal of the nation is allegorised as a funeral procession for Seigneur Clerge

Brit Museum Elgin Room
The Elgin Room, housing the marbles and other treasures looted from Greece by Lord Elgin in 1812 and bought by the nation in 1816 for 35, 000 pounds

PRISONERS
Activists against the new regime are arrested and imprisoned; with the nation divided on the best form of government, there is no lack of dissidents

Crimea Volunteers
Sardinian volunteers leave Genova to fight in the Crimea, thus ensuring their country will have a place at the conference table and so be recognised as a nation

Waking in Barracks
A bugle calls the soldiers to get up, but France being a civilised nation, coffee is served before the men put on their uniforms

Germans Go to War
The German nation marches to war

New Year, Ancient Persia
ANCIENT PERSIA The Nourouz ceremony is a presentation to the ruler, symbolising the fruits which nature will hopefully bestow on the nation

Federation, Paris 1790
In the Champ de Mars, Paris, as in major cities throughout the country, the Federation is proclaimed by the Assemblee Constituante, to signalise the nation united by revolution

Trajan & Parthenaspates
The emperor Trajanus appoints Partamaspartes (or Parthenaspates) as king of Parthia, an Asian nation

Unification of Italy
ITALIAN WAR OF UNIFICATION: During the war for Italian independence French troops land at Genoa

Parliament of Italy 1861
Opening of the new Italian Parliament by Victor Emmanuel

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