British Tars towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour, or The Broadbottom Leviathan trying to swamp Billy's old Boat, & the little Corsican tottering on the Clouds of Ambition, 1807 by James Gillray
© Bridgeman Art Library / © Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford
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- British Tars towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour, or The Broadbottom Leviathan trying to swamp Billy's old Boat, & the little Corsican tottering on the Clouds of Ambition, 1807
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the capture of the Danish fleet by the British in September 1807; Duke of Clarence (1765-1837) known as 'Sailor Bill'; Prime Minister William Cavendish (1738-1809) Duke of Portland rowing; Lord Grenville (1749-1834) with the body of a whale; Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)leaping across English Channel; public house Duke of Portland (1738-1809);
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