Armada of 1779
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The Armada of 1779 was a combined Franco-Spanish naval enterprise intended to divert British military assets, primarily of the Royal Navy, from other war theatres by invading the Kingdom of Great Brit
Portrait of Jeffrey Amherst by Thomas Gainsborough, 1780. Amherst was in command of the British land forces who prepared to resist the invasion.
Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom at the start of the War of the Third Coalition, although never carried out, was a major influence on British naval strategy and the fortification of t
Armada of 1779
…made to Britain's coastal defences. The first earthworks were erected on the Western Heights at Dover. (These were later expanded as a defence against Napoleon's planned invasion in the early nineteenth century.) In addition, Fort Gillkicker was built at Portsmouth. For the Spanish, the expedition was an expensive waste of time…
1806 painting of Napoleon distributing the Legion of Honour at the Camp of Boulogne on 16 August 1804
The First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte Visits the Arsenal of Boulogne, Maurice Orange
Cartoon on the invasion, showing a tunnel under the English Channel and a fleet of balloons
Buonaparte, 48 hours after landing. John Bull, a national personification of England, holds the head of Napoleon after a conjectured French invasion. 1803 caricature by James Gillray