HMS Lion was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, of the Worcester class, launched on 3 September 1777 at Portsmouth Dockyard. [1] She fought at the Battle of Grenada under Captain William Cornwallis on 6 July 1779, where she was badly damaged and forced to run downwind to Jamaica.

Lion was a Téméraire class 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the French Navy, which later served in the Royal Navy. She was named Lion on 23 April 1790 and built at Rochefort from August 1791 until June 1794.

The Lion of Gripsholm Castle is a notable example of a poorly performed taxidermy located in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden. The lion is badly stuffed and is considered to have a comically deformed face. [1] In 1731, the dey of Algiers, Baba Abdi, presented King Frederick I of Sweden with a lion, one of the first lions in Scandinavia. [2]

2015年7月2日 · Whatever the reason, the lion was one of the first to find its way to Scandinavia and it was placed in the Royal Game Park at Djurgården in Stockholm. After its death, the remains of the lion...

2013年3月15日 · The most detailed description of the Lion's story comes from the Mental Floss website article: King Frederik I of Sweden was given gifts from the Bey of Algiers in 1731. These included a lion, another wildcat, three hyenas, and a freed slave who became the animals' keeper.

2016年7月23日 · A further selection of work by the great Vivant Denon (1747-1825) who throve under the Bourbons, throve throughout the Revolution, throve under Napoleon, and continued to thrive for a decade after Napoleon was swept from the scene. Several of these etchings were exhibited to contemporary applause at biennial Paris Salons.

Genealogy for Lion Dreyfus (1791 - d.) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.

Nimbate Lion of St. Mark seated to right on pedestal with A on left edge, S on right edge, open book in forepaws, date in exergue. Script: Latin . Lettering: LUDOVICO MANIN DUCE 1795. Edge. Smooth with two parallel lines of indented points

Sketches of head and hind legs of a lion (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); 1812–1814; Théodore Géricault (French, 1791 - 1824); Graphite; Unframed: 15.2 × 10.6 cm (6 × 4 3/16 in.); 95.GD.40.35

The Lion Monument (German: Löwendenkmal), or the Lion of Lucerne, is a rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were killed in 1792 during the French Revolution , when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris .