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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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