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The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797, by Richard Bridges Beechey (1808–95). Private Collection/© Bonhams, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library.

‘L’Oedipe’ – Napoleon face to face with the Sphinx during his Egyptian Campaign, 1798. J. I. Gerome in
Sloane, Life of Napoleon
, Volume 2, page 5. © Mary Evans Picture Library.

The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798, oil on canvas by William Anderson, 1801. © Sotheby’s/akg-images.

Napoleon leaving his hotel on the Rue de la Victoire and heading for the Council of the Five Hundred to enthusiastic cries from his generals. French School, nineteenth century. Private Collection/ © Roger-Viollet, Paris/The Bridgeman Art Library.

Destruction of the Danish Fleet before Copenhagen, 2 April 1801, colour engraving by Thomas Sutherland after Thomas Whitcombe (c. 1752–1824) from J. Jenkins’s
Naval Achievements
. Private Collection/© The Stapleton Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library.

Bonaparte planning an invasion of England at Boulogne, September 1803. Representation of the landing of French troops in England as planned by Napoleon but never actually carried out. Contemporary copy of an engraving, c.1804. © akg-images.

Portrait of William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806), oil on canvas by Gainsborough Dupont (1754–97). Private Collection/© Philip Mould, Historical Portraits Ltd, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library.

The Death of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, after being fatally wounded by a musket ball on board the
Victory
. Colour aquatint, London (I. Hinton) 21 November 1805. © akg-images/Nimatallah.

The Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805, engraving by English School, nineteenth century. Private Collection/© The Bridgeman Art Library.

Treaty of Tilsit 1807. Napoleon and Tsar Alexander agree on a Franco-Russian truce isolating Prussia. The encounter took place on the river Memel at Tilsit, 1807. Colour chalk lithograph by R. Weibezahl. © akg-images.

Charles, Archduke of Austria (1771–1847) at the Battle of Aspern-Essling, 21–22 May 1809. Napoleon was defeated by the Austrians. Steel engraving from: Bilder-Gallerie zur allgem.Weltgesch. von C.v.Rotteck, Karlsruhe and Freiburg (B.Herder) 1842. © akg-images.

Capture of Oporto (Portugal) by the French under General Nicolas Jean Soult, 29 March 1809 during the Peninsular War. Wood engraving, 1875, after drawing by Felix Philippoteaux (1815–84). © akg-images.

Death of Sir John Moore, 17 January 1809, aquatint by Thomas Sutherland after William Heath from J. Jenkins’s
The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies from 1799–1815
. © Courtesy of the Council, National Army Museum, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library.

The Battle of Salamanca, 22 July 1812. The British army under Wellington and the Spanish army defeat the French under Marmont. Colour aquatint by William Heath (1795–1840) and Joseph C.Stadler (1756–1827). © akg-images/British Library.

Carretadas al cementerio
(Cart with corpses for the cemetery) c.1812/15 by Francisco de Goya (1746–1828). Etching and aquatint. © akg-images.

View of the Kremlin during the Moscow Fire of September 1812, colour engraving by Schmidt after Christian Johann Oldendorp (b.1772). Bibliothéque Marmottan, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France. © Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library.

Retreat of
La Grande Armée
, November–December 1812. Colour lithograph, unsigned, c. 1890. Westfaelisches Schulmuseum, Dortmund © akg-images.

Napoleon exiled to Elba. Anonymous French artist, 1815. © Mary Evans Picture Library.

Field Marshal Prince von Blucher (1742–1819), c.1816, oil on canvas by George Dawe (1781-1829). Apsley House, The Wellington Museum, London, UK. © The Bridgeman Art Library.

Equestrian portrait of the Duke of Wellington with British Hussars on a battlefield, 1814 by Nicolas Louis Albert Delerive (1775-1818). Private Collection/ © Bonhams, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library.

The Battle of Waterloo, illustration for a narrative poem by Dr Syntax, published 1818, coloured aquatint after William Heath, (1795–1840). © Courtesy of the Council, National Army Museum, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library.

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