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English: 1798 Cartoon by James Gillray after the Battle of the Nile at Aboukir Bay, where Nelson (shown, with club of 'British Oak') is destroying 'Revolutionary Crocodiles' coloured with the French Tricolore.
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Caption reads 'Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt;-Destruction of Revolutionary Crocodiles;-or-The British Hero cleansing the Mouth of the Nile.' Inscribed 'Pub'd Oct 6th 1798 by H.Humphrey 27 St James Street' lower left and 'J[ame]s G[illra]y fec[it]' lower right.

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