“Lose not therefore a Moment in preparing the Means of achieving so much Glory for your Country”

Sold for £180 as part of a Hamptons sale on August 1 was the handbill exhorting Englishmen! to take up arms against Napoleon, right.

Warning that “Enemies of Government and the Admirers of the Corsican Tyrant” may interpret the silen…

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