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  • Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Boer War: a soldier reads out good news from the front as others cheer and a barber stops work. Halftone, 1900, after F. Dadd after H. Egersdorfer.
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    Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1 July 1825 | Reference: 26924i
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    Boer War: a soldier reads out good news from the front as others cheer and a barber stops work. Halftone, 1900, after F. Dadd after H. Egersdorfer.

    Egersdörfer, Heinrich, 1853-1915. | Reference: 23380i
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    Russo-Japanese War (?): disabled war veterans accompanied by nurses line the streets in London to watch and cheer the King and Queen. Pen and ink drawing by A. Kemp Tebby, 1904.

    Tebby, Arthur Kemp, 1866-1957. | Date: 1904 | Reference: 23875i
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