Part of a letter written by Nelson just before the Battle of Trafalgar mb-height 4670 This cartoon therefore refers to

This cartoon therefore refers to Gladstone's presentation of a plan which moved to abolish the Irish Church as a state church

Alert and Discovery were the Royal Navy vessels employed on the British Arctic Expedition 1875-1876 commanded by Sir George Nares

Gold Melting House

designed by Robert Mylne and opened in 1769

Part of a letter written by Nelson just before the Battle of Trafalgar mb-height 4670 This cartoon therefore refers toPart of a letter written by Nelson just before the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 (1894). Fround in the collection of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume IV, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1894.