Sir Charles James Napier Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Sir Charles James Napier NPG D38462
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Joseph John Skelton, after William Edward Kilburn
Won a reputation as a fierce and indomitable soldier in the Napoleonic war; accepted Indian commission, 1841, and after several hard-fought battles conquered Sind, 1843. Napier subdued the northern hill tribes, 1844-5, and began preparations for the first Sikh war; recalled in 1849 during second Sikh war but arrived too late to take part.
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










