Only interview between the Commanders, Wellington and Nelson

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Only interview between the Commanders, Wellington and Nelson

The Army and Navy representing the only interview between the Great Commanders, Wellington and Nelson! Chromolithograph, unknown publisher, 1890 (c).Vignettes behind the figures of the Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.Associated with the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815).Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and Major-General Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington) met on 12 September 1805 in the waiting room of the Colonial Office on Downing Street. Both men were waiting to be interviewed by Lord Castlereagh, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. Wellesley was an up and coming commander who had just returned from India where he had served with great distinction. Nelson was already a national hero whose greatest triumph (and death) was to come just over a month later at Trafalgar. In this interpretation of their one and only meeting the artist has depicted the Battles of Waterloo (1815) and Trafalgar (1805) on the wall behind both men. These were the two greatest British victories on land and sea of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.. Chromolithograph Date: 1805

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1769 1805 1852 Admiral Arthur Battles Behind Commanders Figures Horatio Interview Major Marshal Napoleonic Nelson Publisher Representing Trafalgar Unknown Vice Vignettes Waiting Wars Waterloo Wellesley Wellington

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