Collectanea Napoleonica ; being a catalogue of the collection of autographs, historical documents, broadsides, caricatures, drawings, maps, music, portraits, naval and military costume-plates, battle scenes, views, etc., etcrelating to Napoleon Iand his times, 1769-1821 . STAFFORDSHIRE MOSCOW JUG OF 1S12—(i). was a huge gallon beer-jug of phenomenal lightness, covered on bothsides with (to the collector) familiar caricatures of Napoleons discomfitureafter Moscow, and lengthy inscriptions in English and Russian. Bothsides of this interesting specimen arc now reproduced. 162 COLLECTANEA NAPOLEON
Collectanea Napoleonica ; being a catalogue of the collection of autographs, historical documents, broadsides, caricatures, drawings, maps, music, portraits, naval and military costume-plates, battle scenes, views, etc., etcrelating to Napoleon Iand his times, 1769-1821 . STAFFORDSHIRE MOSCOW JUG OF 1S12—(i). was a huge gallon beer-jug of phenomenal lightness, covered on bothsides with (to the collector) familiar caricatures of Napoleons discomfitureafter Moscow, and lengthy inscriptions in English and Russian. Bothsides of this interesting specimen arc now reproduced. 162 COLLECTANEA STAFFORDSHIRE MOSCOW JUG OF 1812—;2). The following article on the subject appeared in the issue of The Kinon the 2nd September, 1905, and is added to this volume by permission ofits proprietors. The period of our history between 1795 and 1S15 (with one briefinterval) was one of unprecedented alarm, uneasiness, anxiety, andexcitement. Its central figure was Napoleon Bonaparte, generally calledthe Corsican Caitiff, Ogre, Devil, Demon, Locust, Toad, Scorpion, Viper,and so forth, until the vocabulary of vituperation and vulgar abuse wasexhausted. The prevailing terror was one of foreign invasion. WhileSt. Vincent, Howe, the Hoods, and Nelson were fighting our battles bysea, and later on while Wellington was winning laurels in the Peninsula,and preparing the way for his crowning victory at Waterloo, CharlesDibdin was writing songs by the dozen to stimulate the national spirit, andthe sturdy yeomen of the southern littoral were guarding the beacon-fires,which on the approach of the hosti
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