Ahoy! Caricaturists fire broadsides!
The Royal Maritime Museum at Greenwich is showing Broadsides: Caricature & the Navy throughout January. The show covers the history of the Napoleonic wars against France when the country was preoccupied in a “battle to control the dunghill”. By 1815 Britannia actually ruled the waves as the cheerful image above indicates. You can see “Boney’s Invincible […]