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An awkward position - true love never did run smooth circa early 19th century
John Fitch, InventorJOHN FITCH American inventor who built successful steamboats but failed to obtain financial backing so drowned himself at Philadelphia. Date: 1743 - 1798
Guillaume-ClitonGUILLAUME-CLITON DE NORMANDIE son of Robert III, duc de Normandie, failed to recover estates deprived by Henry II of England, made Comte de Flandres, but not popular. Date: ?1102 - 1128
Dance, the CortezA Spanish or Mexican step, sufficiently popular to inspire this painting, but which failed to keep up the pace... Date: circa 1912
Hammered Bankrupt 1874A failed company is hammered for bankruptcy Date: 1874
Alma / ZouavesBATTLE OF ALMA The French zouaves raise their flag on the heights of Alma, a crushing victory which the Allies failed to follow up Date: 20 September 1854
The Light That Failed by George FlemingPromotional postcard for The Light That Failed by George Fleming (Julia Constance Fletcher) from Rudyard Kiplings (1890) novel. First produced at the Lyric Theatre, 7th February 1903
WW1 - Zeppelins raid over Paris, France, 1915WW1 - A failed night raid attack over Paris, where enemy airships are under attack from shells and searchlights from below
SIAI Marchetti SM92 -seen in Luftwaffe marks, this twin boom close support type failed to get into production
Agusta AZ8-L MM564 Italian Air ForceDesigned to carry 22 passengers the Agusta AZ8-L failed to gain orders. Only one aircraft was built, MM564, which flew from 1958 to 1963 with the Italian Air Force and was then scrapped Date
General Boulanger PhotoGEORGES-ERNEST-JEAN-MARIE BOULANGER - French soldier turned statesman who attempted a coup d etat : when it failed he fled to Brussels and shot himself on his wifes grave. Date: 1837 - 1891
Gerard WigmanaGERARD WIGMANA - Dutch artist styling himself the Raphael of Friesland but meeting no success at home went to England where, also, he failed to find admirers of his art. Date: 1673 - 1741
Lord George SackvilleGEORGE GERMAINE, first viscount SACKVILLE military commander, notably at the battle of Minden where though victorious he failed to consolidate his success. Date: 1716 - 1785
Sir Lucas PepysSIR LUCAS PEPYS medical practitioner, physician to George III whose madness he failed to cure. Date: 1742 - 1830
Robert PattersonROBERT PATTERSON Irish-born American military commander, served in Mexican Wars but failed as a general in the war between the States. Date: 1792 - 1881
Keith Ryder R3 Racing Monoplane which was entered for th?Keith Ryder R3 Racing Monoplane which was entered for the 1934 MacRobertson Trophy Race but failed to reach England
Cupid Baffled - cannot believe love is not blossoming hereCupid Baffled - he cannot believe love is not blossoming here... Date: 1907
Francis Lombardi and Vittorio Suster, the Italian entry (No62) for the MacRobertson England to Australia race of October 1934, in front of their Bergamaschi PL3, I-TALY. It failed to start
An American Republic-Ford JB-2 Loon, designed from a reconstructed V-1 that had failed to explode and was taken to the US from England, has passed the experimental stage
The Sopwith Atlantic failed in its attempt to fly AtlanticThe Sopwith Atlantic failed in its attempt to fly the Atlantic in May 1919. Date: 1919
The trap that failed. Illustration shows Cipriano Castro, President of Venezuela, hiding behind a large rock, hoping that the large claw-type animal trap labeled Monroe Doctrine he set will prove
Karl Eduard NobilingDr. Nobiling, the would-be assassin of Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany. On the 2nd June 1878, Nobiling shot and wounded Kaiser Wilhelm I but failed to kill him. Date: 1878
Assassination attempt on Jacob Br Scavenius Estrup Assassination attempt on Jacob BrScavenius EstrupAssassination attempt on Jacob Br Scavenius Estrup, a Danish politician who was Council President and Finance Minister from 1875-1894
Assassination attempt on Friedrich Wilhelm IV of PrussiaAssassination attempt by Sergeant Maximilian Joseph Sefeloge on Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, in Potsdam, Germany. 1850
Oskar Becker, assailant of Wilhelm I, in Baden Baden Date: 14th July 1861
Latham MonoplaneThough he failed to fly the Channel, Hubert Latham scored many important successes : he is depicted here at Mourmelon- le-Grand in his Antoinette Date: June 1909
Russells Reform BillForeign Secretary Lord John Russell proposes his Reform Bill. The Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, did not support it and it failed to become law. Date: 1860
The Goliah steamer paying out the electric wireThe first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. Here, the cable is laid out as the Goliah steam ship sails from England to France
Between two stools the Bottom goes to the GroundGeorge Tierney falls between two stools, a tattered Whig Stool and a smart Tory Stool. Amused and standing either side are Fox and Addington
British landing at SalonikaThe first British troops arriving at Salonika in Greece. The British landed at Salonika on October 5th 1915 with the intention of aiding Serbia. Driven back by Bulgarian forces, the expedition failed
Exorcism of Carlos IIA priest performs an exorcism on the Habsburg king of Spain, Carlos II; his physical and mental sufferings caused him to think himself bewitched; he failed to provide an heir
The Bank NunSarah Whitehead, sister of a failed businessman, believed the Bank of England owed her money, lost her mind, flitting about the City until she became known as The Bank Nun
Triton's spear - Crane - KniphofiaThat, reddening on the Triton's spear, foretells the waning of the year. (The flower resembles Kniphofia or Red-hot Poker')
England / BoshamBosham, near Chichester, Sussex, where King Canute tried (but failed!) to command the tide not to come in. A quaint corner of this old village, once a great sea port
Cockings ParachuteRobert Cockings parachute descent above the Vauxhall Gardens, London. Dropped from Charles Greens Royal Vauxhall the inverted cone failed and Cocking hit the ground fatally
Polish King ConvertsMIECZYSLAW I, Duke of Great Poland, after several pagan wives have failed to produce an heir, weds Christian Dombrowska, has a child, so converts to Christianity
Battle of StraffardBATTLE OF STRAFFARD - our guess is that this is a minor engagement during Cromwells infamous subjugation of Ireland. We have failed to find any reference to it
1st Earl of LyttonEDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON 1ST EARL OF LYTTON Viceroy of India (1875-80), failed to avert Second Afghan War (1878)
Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig3Act 3 scene 7 : Bertram, the Devil, summons from their graves the spirits of nuns who failed to keep their vows, and promises to add Robert to their number
Meyerbeer / Robert SoloThe famous Act 3 scene where Bertram, the Devil, invokes the spirits of nuns who failed their vows - a ludicrous scene which Meyerbeer magically transforms into a masterpiece
Lady with Writers BlockA Victorian authoress suffering from writers block overspills her wastepaper basket with failed opening sentences
Helene Duch. Orleans - 3HELENE von Mecklenburg- Schwerin, duchesse d ORLEANS wife of Ferdinand, son of Louis-Philippe; their son claimed the French throne, but failed to get it
Edith Scannell ArtistEDITH MAUD SUSANNA SCANNELL an artistic lady who sadly failed to earn an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography so we don t know very much about her
Darien Expedition 1698DARIEN EXPEDITION A view of the Darien Isthmus, Panama at the time of the Scottish colony established there in November 1698 (it failed in 1699)
Istanbul WallsPart of the triple lines of walls which were intended to protect Byzantium against all comers - but they failed to keep out the Turks in 1453
Mesmers PatientMesmers reputation suffers when mlle Paradis, a blind patient he failed to cure, turns up at the French court playing clavecin at Marie Ant- oinettes spiritual concert
Scutari HospitalThe hospital at Scutari, on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, the scene of Nightingales successes : (the graveyard houses those she failed to save)
Napoleon at HamAfter his failed coup d etat at Boulogne, Napoleon is imprisoned in this house at Ham