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Image Title: End Of The Irish Invasion : - Or - The Destruction Of The French Armada, 1797

Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver

Date: 1797 Jany. 20th.

Summary: French warships, labeled Le Revolutionaire, L'Egalite and The Revolutionary Jolly Boat, being tossed about during a storm blown up by Pitt, Dundas, Grenville and Windham, whose heads appear from the clouds. Charles Fox is the figurehead on Le Revolutionaire which is floundering with broken mast. The Revolutionary Jolly Boat is being swamped, throwing Sheridan, Hall, Erskine, M.A. Taylor and Thelwall overboard.

Subjects: Disasters--Great Britain--1790-1800
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806
Government officials--Great Britain--1790-1800
Shipwrecks--Great Britain--1790-1800
Storms--Great Britain--1790-1800
Warships--French--Great Britain--1790-1800

Original Media: Etching

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