Someone Take This Forsaken Site Away From Me

19 May 1845: Franklin Expedition leaves England

Sir John Franklin's Arctic Expedition in HMS Erebus & Terror sailed out from Greenhithe on Monday 19 May 1845. And as we all know, they sadly never returned.

[Illustrated London News, 24 May 1845. My collection]

Was out jogging and almost shat myself seeing this

MY GUY WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

Napoleonic figures as pixel art - Alexander Suvorov

Uhh obligatory introduction post incoming-

Hello, I'm Em (19, he/any), I made this blog so that I can live out my historical hyperfixations on here instead of torturing my poor friends and family.

I'll post mostly art of:

- napoleonic era figures

- (historical) original characters being homoerotic

- old-timey surgeons covered in blood

- age of sail

- anything else that gets stuck in my brain and starts rotting there

Please talk to me, I promise I want to socialize and make new friends I just suck at it lol

(English isn't my first language, but I'll give it my best)

egyptian campaign shenanigans

larreyyyy

I had a vision

Hi! I saw that you wanted to see the old Napoleonic confession blog, an I wanted to tell you that there's a new one that I made!

@napoconfessions

If you ever wanted to try that out

*runs away as fast as I can*

thank you for the news!!

Glad the freak gets to be resumed🫡

Forgot to post this, but I recently remembered one of the monuments erected 1899 to commemorate the two battles of Zürich

there's a poem on the back, thought I'd give an English translation

How our town suffered a hundred years ago, When the stranger fought with the stranger, When bullets rang through the silent forest, The columns of fire smoked, Flags waved, The father tells the son and he then admonishes the grandson: Boy become a man! Even if those old wounds healed, Don't forget how our mothers suffered; The enemy's army devoured the children's bread, The misery was great, immense was the hardship! If the city is never to experience such suffering, The coming generation must rally: Keep watch and hold the defense, To protect Swiss borders, Swiss honour!

Even though the city itself remained pretty much unharmed, the poem makes reference to the uh- abundantly-practiced act of looting that took place in order to feed the armies