1798 Collection (page 8)

Mariner, Albatross Shot
The Mariner shoots the albatross with his crossbow

Mariner, Two Spirits
The two spirits powering the ship onwards at great speed over the ocean

Mariner, Boat Spun Round
The rescue boat gets caught up in the whirlpool created by the sinking ship: Upon the whirl where sank the ship, The boat spun round and round

Naval Combat 1798
When Edmond Richers corvette La Bayonnaise is attacked by English frigate Embuscade, a fierce combat is terminated when the French board the English ship and it surrenders

Battle of Sediman
Albeit unlisted in any of our reference books, the battle of SEDIMAN is almost certainly an incident of Napoleons ill-starred Egyptian campaign

French Dromedary Cavalry
Regiment des Dromadaires, during Napoleons Egyptian campaign

Giuditta Pasta / Singer
GIUDITTA PASTA Italian opera singer. She sang in Venice, London, Paris and St Petersburg

Davout in Egypt
Marechal Davout in action against the Mamelukes

Darnaud in Italy
Jacques Darnaud, general in the Italian campaign, calls for volunteers to reconnoitre the enemy lines : only two men respond. They meet the enemy and have to defend themselves

Napoleon at Lonato
Also called the second battle of CASTIGLIONE : in his Italian campaign, Napoleon defeats the Austrians under Wurmser, forcing them to retreat to Mantova

Bompard Naval Action
French Capitaine J B F Bompard, commanding La Hoche, encounters an English warship north of Ireland, He loses so many men in a brave fight that he is forced to surrender

Lady Plays Harp / 1798
An elegant lady plays the harp

Ireland / Seizing Fzgerald
The arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald for high treason

Science & Art Honoured
SCIENCES ET ARTS Festival honouring the sciences and the arts : the triumphal procession

Racial / Aborigines 1798
YOO-LONG ERAH-BA-DIANG An aboriginal gathering (One of the earliest depictions of a native Australian ritual occasion)

Mariner, Ice all Around
The ship sails into the icy waters near the South Pole accompanied by the albatross: The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around

1798 Battle of Ross
Battle of Ross, " Come on Boys her mouths stopt" : rebels with pikes fight soldiers with rifles and cannon

1798 Rebels Destroy Home
Rebels destroying a house and furniture : property smashed with hammers and axes, floorboards ripped up and set on fire, piano danced upon

1798 Rebels Take Barrack
Surprise of the Barrack of Prosperous : armed Irish rebels set fire to barracks, forcing occupants to leap from first- floor windows onto spears below

Wordsworth [Hancock]
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH English writer, as a young man, in 1798

Gaspard Monge
GASPARD MONGE Comte de Peluse French mathematician and physicist, accompanied Napoleon to Egypt 1798

Thomas Binney / Vanityfair
THOMAS BINNEY English clergyman and noted pulpit orator

Napoleon and Antiquities
EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN Napoleon with the savants contemplates the antiquities of Egypt, many of which find their way back to Paris

Revolutionary War, Malta
EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN To assure his supply lines, Napoleon takes Malta from the governing Order

Sailors Contributing
Sailors of the Napoleonic era, contributing to raise a " Fund to drive into the sea all the enemies of old England."

Battle of the Nile 1798
Nelson defeats the French fleet commanded by Brueys : the scene on the deck of the French ship Tonnant

Casanova / Orbok Play
GIOVANNI GIACOMO CASANOVA Italian adventurer

Lord Edward Fitzgerald
The arrest and wounding of Lord Edward Fitzgerald

Casanova fights a duel with Branecki
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) fights a duel with Branecki

Casanova meeting the Duchess of Northumberland
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) is introduced to the Duchess of Northumberland by Lady Harrington

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