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4 novembre 1805 : bataille du cap Ortegal. La division de 4 vaisseaux commandée par l'amiral Dumanoir, qui était restée spectatrice lors de la bataille de Trafalgar et s'était échappée pendant le combat, est capturée par l'escadre britannique de l'amiral Richard Strachan.
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.”
The Great Red Dragon watercolor paintings by English poet, William Blake. 1805-1810.
James Ward, born OTD in 1769, was an admired painter of animals. Around 1800 the Board of Agriculture commissioned him to paint a series documenting breeds of British livestock. "Two Extraordinary Oxen" (1814, National Museum Wales); Gloucestershire Old Spot (1800-1805, YCBA)9/14
#TitusSalt bought two cannons from the #NapoleonicWars as features for #Saltaire Park. One of the many stories told is that one was fired #OTD 1805 during the Battle of Trafalgar. Another is that they were melted down for the #WW2 war effort. Mmm #OnceUponATime
10月21日はトラファルガーの海戦があった日
1805 Battle of Trafalgar
イギリス海軍はネルソン提督の著名な最後の戦い、勝利によりナポレオンの計画を阻止することに成功しました。
絵は敵艦隊に突入する旗艦HMS VICTORY
描いたものとまとめたもの
1805 Oct 13: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu performed his first breast cancer operation with "tsusensan" as an oral general anesthetic. He did dozens more https://t.co/sNzEnhxbXy #histmed #OTD
A few Hubble palettes from last few years all captured under S Norfolk skies
NGC2244, IC1805, IC 1396 and Sh 2 155
#astrophotography
napoleon crossing the alps (1805) • florence welch for the september vogue (2012) .
The reference I take for this drawing this time:
Top left: Starcraft 2 legacy of the void intro, 2015
Bottom left: The Rock movie, 1996
Top right: Destruction of L'Orient, 1 August 1798
Bottom right: The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805
IC 1805 : The Heart Nebula (Emission Nebula) 7,500 light-years away toward Cassiopeia. (apod.nasa.Archive) 🚀🔭🌟
IC 1805: The Heart Nebula via NASA https://t.co/AQHE2Czae5
The large emission nebula dubbed IC 1805 looks, in whole, like a human heart. The nebula glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element: hydrogen https://t.co/YlWWQD1w0o
ドイツロマン主義展か〜、というかこの廃墟めっっっちゃ格好いいのだけど…!(ㆁωㆁ*)
Moritz Ludwig von Schwind: “Friedrich Schiller’s(1759-1805): The Passage to Eisenhammer”,
Portrait of Italian opera singer Giuseppina Grassini by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1805. Grassini became Napoleon's mistress shortly after Marengo, and returned with him to Paris. Later in life, she also had an affair with the Duke of Wellington.