Fontenoy

The Battle of Fontenoy, 11th May 1745 by Horace Vernet

3.’Remember Fontenoy! A version of Vernet’s painting showing the Irish Brigade presenting captured British colours to the French king, but with the uniform of the Irish Brigade’s red uniform changed to green, in a supplement of The Weekly Nation, Christmas 1898.

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