Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A popular song from the Napoleonic Wars.
Sung by Dick Holdstock.
Images:
"Sailors Carousing" by Julius Caesar Ibbetson, created in 1802. The painting depicts a lively scene in a tavern, likely in Portsmouth, after sailors received their pay or prize money.
"Conversation across the water" depicting Napoleon and John Bull (a personification of Great Britain). Napoleon, in oversized boots, threatens to invade, while John Bull dismisses him, confident in Britain's naval power.
Portrait of Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood by Henry Howard, after Giuseppe Politi. Collingwood was a British naval admiral, and a contemporary and close friend of Horatio Nelson.
The Redoutable at the battle of Trafalgar, between the Victory (on the left) and the Temeraire on the right by Louis-Philippe Crépin, 1807.
A popular song from the Napoleonic Wars.
Sung by Dick Holdstock.
Images:
"Sailors Carousing" by Julius Caesar Ibbetson, created in 1802. The painting depicts a lively scene in a tavern, likely in Portsmouth, after sailors received their pay or prize money.
"Conversation across the water" depicting Napoleon and John Bull (a personification of Great Britain). Napoleon, in oversized boots, threatens to invade, while John Bull dismisses him, confident in Britain's naval power.
Portrait of Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood by Henry Howard, after Giuseppe Politi. Collingwood was a British naval admiral, and a contemporary and close friend of Horatio Nelson.
The Redoutable at the battle of Trafalgar, between the Victory (on the left) and the Temeraire on the right by Louis-Philippe Crépin, 1807.
