A stand-off between British sailors and Brazilian
A sailor blows a defiant blast on a funnel like a trumpeter. A stand-off between British sailors armed with oars and cudgels and Brazilian cavalry cadets with sabres drawn in a plaza in Rio de Janeiro, Napoleonic Wars, circa 1807. Jack's Trump of Defiance.. Handcoloured lithograph by George Cruikshank from Greenwich Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches, by An Old Sailor (Matthew H. Barker), published by James Robins, London, 1826
Picture No
14008798
Media ID
45935998
Size
6414px x 5077px
(8.7MB)
Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
George Cruikshank
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Anecdote Blast Cadets Funnel George Cruikshank Greenwich Hospital Man-of-war Matthew H. Barker Napoleonic Era Napoleonic Wars Nautical Oars Old Sailor Rio De Janeiro Royal Navy Sabres Seamen Series Of Naval Sketches Stand-off Sticks Trumpeter Union Jack
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