More Egyptian Campaign Shenanigans: The Junot/Lanusse Duel

Fixating on a specific part of history is really fun and all, but it has left me with incurable trust issues regarding popularized quotes and facts from historical periods I'm not well versed in. Digging beneath the surface and looking at primary sources makes you realize how much bs is being regarded as (non-academic) mainstream knowledge. And all because some historian from the victorian era will straight-up have pulled a claim out of their ass or taken Mr. Petty McLiar at face value, whose memoirs were written 20 years after the actual events and contain so much bias and misinformation to be classified as fiction

Warning, unserious oc lore-drop incoming

(This is very much still a wip, so stuff might change in the future, probably when I have more time to do research lol)

Most of the story takes place during the empire

+ some of the more important side characters

In short, they're all messy people who are effed up in their own unique ways, trying to do what they think is best (and making everything worse instead)

Feel free to ask questions about them!! (there is nothing I enjoy more than yapping about my ocs)

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]

Sketch dump before my personal waterloo (my final exams)

Ach Jomini

shitposting once more

was gifted this print of french naval uniforms throughout history

and i accidentally drew some guy while using it as reference trying to practice

(he's based on 14. capitaine de vaisseau (1808))

sideburns as in 19th century, not as in weird uncle that should probably be on some kind of watch list

The urge to dwelve into the rich history, delight in interpreting sources, and try to represent the past as accurately as possible

vs.

The urge to draw old men yaoi

young naps