On this day in 1798, Irish rebels (with the help of French troops) route a British army in County Mayo. The redcoat retreat becomes known as the Castlebar Races.

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🎨 « Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania » (1798) Charles Meynier

🏛 Cleveland Museum of Art

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Eugène *26.4.1798 Charenton-Saint-Maurice, Paris – 13.8.1863 Paris

[Die Badenden, 1854]

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SpongeBob SquarePants - Season 5 Episode 25 - Frame 1798 out of 1968

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A French Officer taken prisoner at the Battle of Nicopolis, 1798, taunted by his captors with the severed head of his comrade.

(by Felician von Myrbach)

General Ali Pasha forced the French prisoners to walk in procession, holding the salted heads of their comrades!

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Thomas Crofton Croker MRIA (15 Jan 1798 Aug 1854). Collector Irish poetry/folklore. Co-founded Percy Society & Camden Society. Fairy Legends & Traditions of the South of Ireland translated (German) by Brothers Grimm! Didn't like old annals 🪦London https://t.co/F6zecP3Zb5

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"Comforts of Bath- Gouty Persons Fall on Steep HIll"
A 1798 watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson

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【夜の4コマ部屋】キャンプ! ㉓ / サチコと神ねこ様 第1798回 / wako先生 https://t.co/cCiqvtGpr2

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Charles Meynier, Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy, 1798 https://t.co/L8BBvmOPLd

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The battle of the started 1798. Called the Battle of Aboukir by the French, this is one of Admiral great victories. Painting by Thomas Whitcombe, 1799.

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John Singleton Copley, Studies for "Saul Reproved by Samuel for Not Obeying the Commandments of the Lord", 1797-1798 https://t.co/MzXbx6SJ7z

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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Los Chinchillas, 1797-1798 https://t.co/78TNxqUtXQ

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Woman Sitting on Edge of Veranda, by Kitagawa Utamaro, 1798

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1798年の今日はピラミッドの戦いの日。
エジプト遠征を決行したナポレオン率いるフランス軍とオスマン帝国領エジプトのマムルーク軍が、カイロ近郊で行った戦いで、フランスの勝利で終わった。
「兵士諸君!あの遺跡の頂から40世紀の歴史が諸君を見下ろしている」と言うナポレオンの言葉が有名。

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