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The battle of Camperdown (Zeeslag bij Kamperduin) was fought #onthisday 1797. The British fleet defeated the Batavian Navy (the Dutch were allied of Revolutionary France).
In 1801 Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg RA painted the flagship ‘Vryheid’ at the moment of her surrender.

Landscape painter Claude-Joseph Vernet was born #OnThisDay 1714. He spent 20 years in Italy, working for an international clientele. "Peintre du Roi" under Louis XV, Vernet's marine compositions gained a huge reputation, especially those depicting stormy seas and shipwrecks. 🌊

The battle of the #Nile started #onthisday 1798. Called the Battle of Aboukir by the French, this is one of Admiral #Nelson's great victories. Painting by Thomas Whitcombe, 1799.

#OnThisDay 1799 Pierre-François Xavier Bouchard, officer in the French Army of engineers, discovered the #RosettaStone, during some repair work on Fort Julien. The official declaration of the discovery appeared in the "Courrier de l'Égypte", on September 15, 1799.

Marie Louise had a passion for #violets. She had them embroidered on her wedding dress, when she married Napoleon #OnThisDay 1810.
When she became Duchess of Parma in 1814, the friars of the Annunciata were able to extract violets perfume and produced it only for her.

#OnThisDay 1821 Mr. Hume rose in the House of Commons to move for an account of the expenses of the detention of Buonaparte at St. Helena. If it were right to detain Napoleon at all...https://t.co/TKi4FNWGBi

Jacques Chevillet (1786-1837), a rare emotional voice of a Napoleonic amputee
https://t.co/kSxqiocyxt

I think he looks a bit too old to be the general of the Italian Campaign, but this is how illustrator Tancredi Scarpelli imagined Napoleon back in 1931... https://t.co/qnXxSdd13P

The Peace of Tolentino was signed #onthisday 1797. After the defeat of the papal troops near Faenza, Napoleon Bonaparte made Pope Pius VI sign a diplomatic agreement in which he had to renounce Romagna and Avignon, pay a huge war indemnity and give hundreds of artworks.

Count Colonel Francesco Teodoro Arese Lucini was also a patron of artists and writers.
He was portrayed as a prisoner of the Spielberg by Francesco Hayez in 1828. For him Hayez also made an oil painting - now lost- of the Count of Carmagnola led to torture.