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Author:  tycho [ Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Captured French Flag on Display

Interesting item here:

https://tinyurl.com/jpdcobf

Author:  tycho [ Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Captured French Flag on Display

Update: a fundraising campaign has been launched to ensure that the flag is restored so that it can be put on permanent display in Norwich.

https://tinyurl.com/jr4lj7e

Is there anything in Nelson's correspondence about the captured flag?I know he was elated when the Genereux was finally taken but don't recall reading about the donaton to Norwich.

Author:  raldis [ Wed Mar 29, 2017 2:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Captured French Flag on Display

The flag was presented to Norwich by Sir Edward Berry, Nelson's flag captain at the time of the capture. Although a Londoner by birth, like Nelson, Berry went to Norwich School where his uncle was headmaster. Berry always considered himself a Nofolk man by adoption.

Ray

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