Victors of the Nile Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Victors of the Nile NPG D17019

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Bromley, and by John George Landseer, and by William Satchwell Leney (Lenney), published by Robert Bowyer, after Robert Smirke

Nelson's victories during the wars with France gripped the popular imagination, making him the most enduring of British heroes. In 1793, following the outbreak of war with France, he lost an eye in a successful attack on Corsica. Nelson's strategic brilliance was confirmed at the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797) and the Battle of the Nile (1798). This was followed by the great controversy of Nelson's career when, because of his passion for Emma Hamilton, he refused to leave Naples to defend Minorca.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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