Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
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Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve was a French Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was in command of a Franco-Spanish fleet whic
1850 portrait of Villeneuve
1805 cartoon of Villenueve onboard HMS Euryalus after Trafalgar
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
Napoleon Distributing the Legion of Honour at the Camp of Boulogne Philippe-Auguste Hennequin, 1806
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