Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough
Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough was an English soldier, peer and courtier.
Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough
Mortlake tapestry owned and presumably commissioned by Mordaunt, The Seizure of Cassandra by Ajax from a set of The Horses, c. 1650-70.
English Tangier was the period in Moroccan history in which the city of Tangier was occupied by England as part of its colonial empire from 1661 to 1684. Tangier had been under Portuguese control before Charles II of England acquired the city as part of the dowry when he married the Portuguese infanta Catherine. The marriage treaty was an extensive renewal of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. It was opposed by Spain, then at war with Portugal, but clandestinely supported by France.
Leonardo de Ferrari's plan of the Portuguese fortifications at Tangier, c. 1655
Wenceslaus Hollar's landscape of Tangier at the beginning of the English occupation
Tangier c. 1670 by Wenceslaus Hollar.