Cargo being unloaded at the docks, Upper Pool, London Perceval of Galles Spectators are watching the procession

Spectators are watching the procession from balconies

but armed only with a truncheon

looking alluringly over her shoulder at the man in the left

Mary Tofts gives birth to rabbits in an illustration of the famous hoax she pulled off in 1726

Scene from Napoleon's failed attempt to take the city of Acre from the Ottomans and British during his campaign in the Holy Land in 1799

Cargo being unloaded at the docks, Upper Pool, London Perceval of Galles Spectators are watching the processionCargo being unloaded at the docks, Upper Pool, London, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936).