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Please browse the gallery below for the images, documents and video related to European Traces in the War of 1812. Click on an item to see an enlarged image with description or to play the video. Transcribed text is included with the document images.
A coloured lithograph documenting a private soldier of the de Watteville Regiment in 1815 uniform. He has a black shako hat with a red and white plume, red jacket, gray pants and holds his long musket on his shoulder.
Napoleon and Alexander, Czar of Russia, at a pavilion on a raft in the Neman (Nemunas) River. A crowd celebrates the conclusion of the treaty.
Antique map showing the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within Poland and Prussia. In the left bottom corner of the map is the title: POLAND LITHUANIA and PRUSSIA from the latest AUTHORITIES.
Gold rectangular belt plate embossed with the letters GR and the word Maida.
Colour photograph of a pink house on a curved road with a brick fence
Panoramic painting of lines of old prison hulk ships anchored in Portsmouth Harbour.
Three barracks buildings are at the back of the open square within the walls. On the square several prisoners are baking bread in outdoor ovens.
Vintage watercolour looking at the city of Quebec from a rough sea. A man is attempting to row a small boat past a floating log. Many sailing ships are coming into the harbour.
A moose or caribou swims across the river below rapids in the St. Lawrence river. The shores of the river are covered with forest.
Broadside proclamation to the Province of Upper Canada announcing the war has begun. Paper is brown and foxed with three torn corners.
A vintage sepia map of Canada displaying townships, indigenous villages and state of the land (forested or unsurveyed).
A coloured print of a view of building in the harbour, with an anchored ship, hill in the background and sailing vessels in the foreground. At the bottom is written in script: Commissioners House in the Naval Yard, Halifax.
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