St John d'Acre, Palestine Size:Large: 7 x 5in during the Inundation'

during the Inundation'

figure 2 a sinuous powered by the electrostatic generator and associated conducting machinery designed by John Cuthbertson (bap

To the right a waterman watches another man play skittles

'Barbed Wire'

who was killed during the battle

St John d'Acre, Palestine Size:Large: 7 x 5in during the Inundation''St John d'Acre, Palestine, 1825. Showing the situation of the 'Tigre' and 'Theseus' during the siege, and the place where the breach was effected by Buonaparte's troops. Napoleon made an unsuccessful attempt to capture the port of Acre in 1799 but was repulsed by the city's Ottoman Turkish defenders aided by a British Royal Navy flotilla.