#1815

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Redingote, around 1815

From Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

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Out numbered - British squadron closing in on USS President, 15th January 1815, by Geoff Hunt (1948-)

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Field Marshall Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 🌹

He was a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the early 19th century, twice serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom!

The Duke of Wellington is best remembered for his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in 1815!

My favourite nicknames for The Duke of Wellington are “The Iron Duke”, “Atty” and “Old Nosey”!

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~ Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815

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Julien-Michel Gué (French, 1789-1843) Briséis rendue à Achille découvre dans sa tente le corps de Patrocle, 1815 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux

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La Fayette on the Battle of Waterloo and its aftermath

Excerpt from a letter from the Marquis de La Fayette to Thomas Jefferson, October 10, 1815:

Never did our Heroïc Army fight Better than at waterloo. a Stubborn Mistake of Bonaparte Lost the day. He deserted His Soldiers, and Determined to dissolve our Assembly, usurp dictatorial powers, prefering the chances of Confusion and involving destruction to those of firmness and patriotism. That part of the impending Evils was timely prevented.

“Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0054. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 9, September 1815 to April 1816, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 67–69] (20/06/2026).

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A Rare Acquisition to the Royal Menagerie

Thomas Rowlandson British

Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British

Subject Napoléon Bonaparte French

July 28, 1815

"Napoleon shown in a cage set on a cart. He is surrounded by enraged and or mocking Britons."