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Officers on a warship deck watch cannon smoke drift toward a fortress tower across the harbor, with rigging and sails in the

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The French fleet forcing the entrance of Tagus River. 11 July 1831, Horace Vernet (1831), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A naval scene shows officers in dark uniforms and top hats standing on a ship's deck amid tangled rigging, with sailors in straw hats nearby. Beyond the rail, smoke from gunfire drifts over the water toward a fortress tower, and other vessels fly the French tricolour. The work is titled The French fleet forcing the entrance of Tagus River. 11 July 1831, by Horace Vernet, dated 1831.

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