Castle Gate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire mb-code MA05781A Nelson was shot and fatally

Nelson was shot and fatally wounded by a French sharpshooter during the battle

A policeman talking to a small girl

A macaroni (possibly George Colman) standing outside entrance to Covent Garden Theatre has snatched the wig off the head of a smaller man

Plate 5 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg

The police lining the route faced the crowd and missed the occasion

Castle Gate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire mb-code MA05781A Nelson was shot and fatallyCastle Gate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 1893. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.