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#OnThisDay 1760, Italian castrato-soprano Giuseppe Belli is stabbed to death in Naples by "an envious Venetian". Belli was highly praised for his sweet voice and one of his best performances was Licida's aria "Consola il genitore", written for him by of Johann Adolph Hasse. ➡️

"Mr and Mrs Bull giving Buonaparte a Christmas treat!" (1803)
Napoleon is tied to a post and watches with famished eagerness Mr. and Mrs. Bull at their Christmas dinner.

#OnThisDay 1792 General Charles François Dumouriez defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Jemmapes. This battle, had allowed the victory of the French Republic and, ultimately, the reunification of the Wallonie with France. Painting by Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet (1821).

Alla campagna russa del 1812 nel IV Corpo della Grande Armée furono presenti circa 22.000 italiani. "Il ruolo dell’Italia nella guerra napoleonica in Russia"
a cura della fondazione Arco:
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The Battle of Trafalgar, #OnThisDay 1805 by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield ⚓

Portrait, history painter and Royal Academician Henry Singleton was born #OnThisDay 1766. His painting about the Storming of the Bastille (1792) is the only British work offering an heroic view of the attack.

@MarketMeantime starts Sunday 10th October in Greenwich! #ornc College Way (off King William Walk), SE10 9NN 🥕🍎🥦🧄🧀🥚🍞

#onthisday 1789 Parisians women found themselves at the market protesting against the expensive cost of life. Led by 'fishwives', 6000 of them marched on Versailles, where the King and the National Assembly were gathered. And there they forced Louis XVI to receive them.

In a dark landscape, the wounded Cuirassier flees the battle, going down a slope with his horse. This is how French painter Théodore Géricault (born #OnThisDay 1791) represents the debacle of the Napoleonic armies against the coalition during the campaign in France in 1814.

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