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TIME CAPSULE 1781
DEATH IN VICTORY John Singleton Copley’s famed painting shows Peirson fall at the moment of victory; his death galvanised the British attack
ALAMY X1, GETTY X5
BRITISH ATTLE VICTORY OF JERSEY
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