THE WATERLOO SALE Wellington, Waterloo and the Napoleonic Wars Wednesday 1 April 2015 THE WATERLOO SALE Wellington, Waterloo and the Napoleonic Wars Wednesday 1 April 2015, at 14.00 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING Telephone bidding Silver CUSTOMER SERVICES Bidding by telephone will only Michael Moorcroft Monday to Friday 08.30 to 18.00 Be accepted on lots with a lower +44 (0) 20 7393 3835 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 HIGHLIGHTS ONLY Estimate in excess of £1,000. [email protected] RUSI As a courtesy to intending Whitehall, Please note that bids should be Prints bidders, Bonhams will provide a London, SW1A 2ET submitted no later than 4pm on Michael Jette written Indication of the physical the day prior to the sale. New +44 (0) 20 7393 3941 condition of lots in this sale if a Thursday 26 March 2015 bidders must also provide proof [email protected] request is received up to 24 10.00 - 16.00 of identity when submitting bids. hours before the auction starts. Failure to do this may result in This written Indication is issued THE COMPLETE SALE your bid not being processed. Ceramics Fergus Gambon subject to Clause 3 of the Notice Bonhams +44 (0) 20 7468 8245 to Bidders. Live online bidding is available 101 New Bond Street, [email protected] London, W1S 1SR for this sale ILLUSTRATIONS Please email [email protected] Front cover: Lot 140 (detail) Arms Sunday 29 March 2015 with ‘live bidding’ in the subject David Williams Back cover: Lot 18 (detail) 11.00 - 15.00 line 48 hours before the auction +44 (0) 20 7393 3807 Inside front cover: 16 (detail) Monday 30 March 2015 to register for this service [email protected] Inside back cover: Lot 66 (detail) 9.00 - 16.30 Tuesday 31 March 2015 PRESS ENQUIRIES ENQUIRIES Books & Manuscripts 9.00 - 16.30 [email protected] Wednesday 1 April 2015 Paintings Matthew Haley 9.00 - 11.00 Thomas Podd +44 (0) 20 7393 3817 +44 (0) 20 7393 3988 [email protected] IMPORTANT INFORMATION [email protected] The United States Government SALE NUMBER Coins & Medals has banned the import of ivory 22277 Collectables John Millensted into the USA. 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If the By credit card / debit card intention is to reconnect this equipment, we recommend this is carried out by a suitably qualified electrician. 2 | BONHAMS WELLINGTON, WATERLOO AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARS The crushing defeat of Napoleon’s army at The sugar-producing islands of the West the Battle of Waterloo two hundred years Indies provided vital financial fuel for the ago terminated twenty-two years of almost economies of Britain and France; the constant war between Britain and France. western Atlantic and Caribbean remained The two nations had fought at sea and an important theatre for naval and military on land while periodically allied with other conflict as British and French islands were European countries during two decades blockaded or captured and their role as of diplomatic manoeuvring; they were also sources of national income threatened active in economic warfare as each sought or removed through the interruption or to undermine the other’s ability to prosecute cessation of trade. That economic warfare, the war financially. The war that ended in perpetrated by naval and military means, is 1815 would be known in Britain as ‘the encapsulated in the Lloyds Patriotic Fund Great War’ for a century afterwards and the vase of £100 value given to Captain (later Allies’ victory at Waterloo established this Admiral Sir) Samuel Pym of HMS ATLAS to country as the world’s paramount economic reward his part in the Battle of St Domingo and martial power for much of that century. of 1806 (LOT 34). The defeat of a French The significance of the military victory at squadron at St Domingo kept the British Waterloo became apparent almost at once West Indian trade routes open; the income and the battle rapidly acquired semi-mythical derived from them continued to flow into the status.