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Artois in action

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Source: Thomas Whitcombe

a_real_blackadder

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Source: National Portrait Gallery

James Gordon is not Hornblower

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Source: Osprey Publishing

an Artois model

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Source: Nautical Naval Museum

A Rival's View of 'Our Edmund"

posted by Edmund_Nagle

"the other occurrence that was a vulgar degradation to our quarterdeck, which I witnessed with sorrow,
surrounded as we were by such personages. The Prince said to his court buffoon:(Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle):
"Nagle, I am on board a man-o-war and should like to take the opportunity to drink a genuine glass of grog.
I wish you would get me one"
"Yes and please your Royal Highness ,and it shall be a good one"
(said Nagle)
so off he went and speedily brought up what he thought would be agreeable to his master's palate - a real stiff glass of grog.
The Prince, who from the beginning intended...

a real Edmund

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Source: william corden the elder

Me olga Alexandra and Lucy

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Literature & Entertainment

posted by Edmund_Nagle

.the recent death of Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle (w)as a source of considerable pain to his Majesty during his last illness. Sir Edmund was groom of the Bedchamber, and we learn from a memoir that has since appeared, nephew of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke. The admiral died at the age of 73, He had seen some service( in the navy), but we can only notice him in connection with the late Sovereign (George IV)
In 1814 Nagle had the distinguished honour of being nominated Naval Aide de Camp to his late majesty, then Prince Regent.

Edmund's fight with Wellington

posted by Edmund_Nagle

A long standing family and territorial struggle
existed between the Duke of Wellington ,
General Arthur Wellesley ( nee Wesley, nee Colley)
And Admiral Edmund "Ned" Nagle, butler to George Prince of Wales.,
It began not long after the Battle of the Boyne in1690. Even the date is in dispute
with Nagle calling it the 12th, and, the Colley-Wesley calling it the 1st day of July.
That's important to note since the Gregorian calendar was not followed by the Protestant victors of the battle at the ford across The River Boyne., on that foggy summer's morning 125 years prior to the contest between them...

An Eagle eye view of Edmund

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Notwithstanding the alarming state of the country, the Prince Regent relinquished none of his expensive habits;...everyday was the parent of some extravagant whim...his rage for alterations was boundless,(the only thing he did not alter was himself) He altered carlton House, he altered the Pavilion at Brighton, he altered his cottage at Windsor,and out of sheer vanity he altered his birthday!A hint, a single word, would sometimes lead to the dismantling of a room,and to the removal of objects which, only a few months before, had been put up at an enormous expense.On one occasion room at Carlton...

George & his Wife

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"George IV. was not particularly scrupulous respecting his wife, Queen Caroline, whom he first neglected and then persecuted. The employment of suborned spies on her actions, and of perjured witnesses on her trial, showed nothing like a sense of honor. When Sir Edmund Nagle waited on him, in May, 1821, to announce the death of Napoleon, he said, 'I have to acquaint you with the death of your worst enemy.' The king jumped up in his bed (as lightly as his vast corpulence would permit) and exclaimed, 'Eh! when did she die?'" Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:88n.

Edmund and the Prince

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The Prince rose with a smile, which was George's only-His mind was sportive to a degree .All those who frequented the pavilion are aware of the friendship which his Majesty had for Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle and the jokes which familiarity gave rise to., and justified, connected with that gallant Hibernian. The painting of his horse which he rode which he did not recognize, the sewing up of his waistcoat, and other funny and fanciful tricks, stand on record. On this day the worthy admiral anxious to follow his royal majesty briskly up the steps, stumbled, upon which the Prince noted :"My dear...