The Anti-Gallican or Standard of British Loyalty, Religion and Liberty

The Anti-Gallican or Standard of British loyalty, religion and liberty : including a collection of the principal papers, tracts, declarations, speeches, poems and songs, that have been published on the threatened invasion: together with original pieces on the same subject. The whole being intended to excite the martial ardour of the people to unmask the perfidious designs of Bonaparte against this country ; and to expose his malignant, treacherous, and cruel conduct, to the various nations that have fallen beneath his tyrannical yoke

E. W. B.; John O'Keefe; various

London : Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultry ; J. Asperne, Cornmill ; J. Hatchard, and J. Ginger, 1803


[Anti-Bonapartist, British Periodical]  12 issues, (complete, all published) bound in one volume.  Bound in contemporary cloth-backed boards.  496 pages ; 22 cm.  Engraved frontispiece of the Frenchman's Dream. The illustration caricatures a uniformed Napoleon after successfully invading England. No folding plates. Note: Although the stated publication date is 1803, the Union List of Serials and Times Handlist give the publication date as 1804.

The periodical's purpose was as a trumpet for British bluster and to slander and caricature Napoleon.  An early example of British fortitude in the face of imminent foreign invasion.  Many of the anti-Napoleonic songs and verses are of interest.  Such as an: "Ode to Freedom,"  "English Bravery," "The War-Whoop of Victory - A Patriotic Song," "Britannia to her sons," "The Little Island Shall be Free," "The English Volunteers," "Hearts of Oak," "A Tale for John Bull," etc, etc.  A collection of English patriotism. BMC XIX, 945.33

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