The Carabiniers at the Battle of Ramillies Size:L: 90 x 60cm a man who has just

a man who has just been conscripted into the army sits unhappily in a chair next to a soldier with a glass and a pipe in each hand

Buchanan (1791-1868) was president from 1857 until 1861

He is reading a newspaper that relates the rumours that there will be a French invasion of Britain

Described by William Clift as 'An outside view of part of the lower jaw of a wolf

an ape-like forest-dweller

The Carabiniers at the Battle of Ramillies Size:L: 90 x 60cm a man who has justThe Carabiniers at the Battle of Ramilies, 23rd May 1706. At the Battle of Ramillies, during the War of the Spanish Succession, a British Dutch German army under the Duke of Marlborough defeated a French army under the Duc de Villeroi at Ramillies Offus near Namur. The victory cleared the French from the Spanish Netherlands and led to the capture of Antwerp, Bruges, and Ghent.