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TITLE: Destruction of the French gun-boats-or-Little Boney & his friend Talley in high glee

SUMMARY: Cartoon showing Napoleon, sitting on the shoulder of Talleyrand, gleefully peering through a large rolled document, "Talleyrand's plan for invading Great Britain", at the channel, where the French flotilla is being destroyed by shells from British ships. Talleyrand stands behind the gun embrasures of a fortress on a cliff at whose base the gunboats are foundering. On the horizon is the English coast, with Dover Castle on a cliff.

MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving, color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: London : pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1803.

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Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver.


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current15:00, 24 February 2015Thumbnail for version as of 15:00, 24 February 20151,280 × 893 (1.27 MB)Hohum (talk | contribs)Better version
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21:41, 28 July 2005Thumbnail for version as of 21:41, 28 July 20051,024 × 814 (149 KB)Petrusbarbygere (talk | contribs)TITLE: Destruction of the French gun-boats-or-Little Boney & his friend Talley in high glee SUMMARY: Cartoon showing Napoleon, sitting on the shoulder of Talleyrand, gleefully peering through a large rolled document, "Talleyrand's plan for invading Gre

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