The Carabiniers at the Battle of Ramillies Size:L: 90 x 60cm He is reading a newspaper

He is reading a newspaper that relates the rumours that there will be a French invasion of Britain

which appears on the right of the print

an ape-like forest-dweller

at Newstead Abbey

The Carabiniers at the Battle of Ramillies Size:L: 90 x 60cm He is reading a newspaperThe Carabiniers at the Battle of Ramilies, 23rd May 1706. At the Battle of Ramillies, during the War of the Spanish Succession, a British Dutch German army under the Duke of Marlborough defeated a French army under the Duc de Villeroi at Ramillies Offus near Namur. The victory cleared the French from the Spanish Netherlands and led to the capture of Antwerp, Bruges, and Ghent.