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Letter written on Nov. 16, 1799, by Lord Nelson to Sir John Acton, Prime Minister of Naples, requesting Russian financial assistance to salvage the British situation in Malta. Nelson here styles himself "Bronte Nelson"; one month prior, he had been granted the dukedom of Bronte by Ferdinand III of Sicily as thanks for preventing the French conquest of that island. The letter is now in the Malta Postal Museum, Valletta.
The 1798 Expedition to Egypt under the Command of Bonaparte, Léon Cogniet, 1835
Napoleon's Return from Elba, Charles de Steuben, 1818
The Battle of Trafalgar, Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, 1836
The Battle of Trafalgar, Joseph Mallord Wiliam Turner, 1822
Happy anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
The Apotheosis of Nelson, Pierre-Nicolas Legrand de Lérant, ca. 1818
Happy birthday to Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, born on this date in 1758.
Napoleon I of France, Andrea Appiani, 1805
Happy Napoleon’s birthday!
Allegory of the Peace of Pressburg, Andrea Appiani, 1808
The Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815, Clément-Auguste Andrieux, 1852
Happy 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
The Charge of the Life Guards Cossacks at Leipzig, Carl Rechlin, 1845
Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes, attributed to Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, ca. 1801
The Fight for the Standard, Richard Ansdell, 1847
The Battle of Trafalgar, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1822
