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Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Color Your Own Historic Sailor

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Back in 2017, I shared an April Fool's Day post about a coloring book. It was so popular that I finally got around to making it into a r...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Napoleon Bonaparte on 'Bellerophon' in Plymouth Sound, 1815 and 1816

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Between July 15 and August 4, 1815, HMS Bellerophon was home to the defeated Napoleon Bonapart in the immediate aftermath of his surrender, ...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Study of a sailor, c. 1800

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Portrait study of a sailor, Robert Williams, 1797-1812. British Museum. This fantastic portrait study of a sailor is a great way to compa...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

The Battle of the First of June, 1794 (1795)

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On June 1, 1794 the British and French forces clashed in the Atlantic Ocean about 400 nautical miles west of the island of Ushant, the culmi...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

An Irish Pilot or Steering by Chance (1812)

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"An Irish Pilot, or Steering by Chance". London, 1812. Royal Museums Greenwich. The British Navy was made up of a number of na...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Jack hove down - With a Grog Blossom Fever, (c 1805)

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Jack Hove Down - With a Grog Blossom Fever. Thomas Tegg, London, c. 1805. Royal Museums Greenwich. Today's image is a very expressi...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

The Use of a Gentleman or Patronage for the Admiralty (1810)

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The Use of a Gentleman or Patronage for the Admiralty. Published by Thomas Tegg, London. Undated; c. 1810. The British Museum . The undi...
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