The English Royal Navy captures a Spanish fortress by stealth in the Peninsula War. Captain Bowsprit of HMS Ajax accepts the sword of the fort's commandant in surrender. Sailors plant the English Union Jack flag while prisoners are led away and dead bodies litter the ground. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Williams from The Post Captain, or Adventures of a True British Tar by a Naval Officer, J. Johnston, London, 1817. Attributed to Alfred Thornton or John Mitford.

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