The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816 Frame:Natural Large: 28cm x Depth 18cm

Large: 28cm x Depth 18cm x Width 18cm

you’ll find it outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park

It took about 20 exposures before I got the comet spot on

Author: Peter Frankopan

Over the course of the next nine months the ship was gradually crushed

The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816 Frame:Natural Large: 28cm x Depth 18cmIn 1816 a squadron under Admiral Sir Edward Pellew was fitted out and sent to Algiers where they arrived, in company with a small Dutch squadron, on 27 August 1816. They sought the release of the British Consul, who had been detained, and over 1000 Christian slaves, many being seamen taken by the Algerines. When they received no reply the fleet bombarded Algiers in the most spectacular of several similar punitive actions of this period that finally