ID the guys in the caricature.
Answer: William Pitt the Younger and Napolean Bonaparte
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January 21, 2009
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January 21, 2009
ID the guys in the caricature.
Answer: William Pitt the Younger and Napolean Bonaparte
Cracked by: Logik
Half points to LWSAM
Check out Logik’s comment for the detailed answer.
January 22, 2009 at 12:45 am
Napoleon Bonaparte and William Pitt, the painting being “State Epicures Taking un Petit Souper”… A caricature by James Gillray.
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[As Blackadder would say about William Pitt - the Younger's successors,
" And which Pitt would this be? Pitt the Toddler? Pitt the Embryo? Pitt the glint in the milkman's eye? "]
January 22, 2009 at 3:25 pm
The man in red on the left:
Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, him who won the Battle of Waterloo.
The man in blue on the right:
Napoleon Bonaparte, who became Emperor of France in 1799.
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