Early Modern and Colonial European and American History. Land and Sea.
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The greatest officer in the history of the Royal Navy, the bane of the high seas, referred to as the devil by the French navy, referred to as "Britannia's God of War".
This is the story of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, England's naval hero.
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Napoleon Bonaparte, who was 26 and an artillery officer at the time orders his gunners to give counter revolutionaries advancing through the streets of Paris a "whiff of grapeshot."
"I found the crown of France in the gutter. I picked it up with the tip of my sword, and cleaned it, and placed it atop my own head"
Napoleon Bonaparte, who was 26 and an artillery officer at the time orders his gunners to give counter revolutionaries advancing through the streets of Paris a "whiff of grapeshot."
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A French Double Barrel Breech Loading Pinfire Shotgun dated circa 1866 on display at the MET
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At two in the morning in 1492, a lookout on the Pinta cried 'Tierra!'.
Hours later Columbus waded ashore on a Bahamian island he named San Salvador, and two worlds collided forever.
Happy Columbus Day!
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“I have lost the greatest, the wisest, and the most generous of my enemies.”
King Louis XIV of France upon learning of the death of Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar.
“I have lost the greatest, the wisest, and the most generous of my enemies.”
King Louis XIV of France upon learning of the death of Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar.
The coat worn by Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, where he was killed in battle.
A bullet hole on the left shoulder marks where Nelson was shot and later died of his wounds.
Housed at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
