2-715-018 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir Sidney Smith Defending the Breach at Acre', (1799), 1816. William Sidney Smith, (1764-1840) British naval officer, reinforced Ottoman defences and supplied additional cannon at the Siege of Acre in 1799. From "The History of the War, from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Present Time, Vol. I", by Hewson Clarke, Esq. [T. Kinnersley, Limited, London, 1816]