@mcribbHistory According to google reverse image search, this sketch very much looks like a sketch from the 1801 English Campaign in Egypt. Check out the wall, the blue + red uniform colors and the tent for comparison. Sketch is produced of the coast near
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@FriederikeBaer It's the 'Long' 19th century but there may be something of use here? A few chapters look at the 1790s or very early 1800s. https://t.co/mK3QL8SHKR
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@CorinneGressang Is there any scope to focus on the cultural history of war? Not exactly my wheelhouse, but my supervisor edited a book in this vein a few years back with some absolutely fascinating chapters that might of relevance here: https://t.co/d9N4h
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@RoryMuir3 @GLCopeland1 Catriona Kennedy has a chapter on British soldiers' sketches in Egypt in Clarke and Horn's Militarised Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century https://t.co/c6dDQsCMCe