Bodleian Libraries, Jubilee. A new and interesting game

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Bodleian Libraries, Jubilee. A new and interesting game

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Game of 1810 entitled The jubilee. A new and interesting game; game has 150 squares, representing events in the reign of George III, some just pictorial others with some text. Mounted on linen and folded in original slip case, with hand-coloured label. Johnson copy of the board has stamped letters at top left: Tynyr L.?; War with Spain; Ich dien; Peace; Duke of York born; Duke of Clarence born; Stamps; First meeting of Congress at New York; Princess Charlotte Augusta Matilda; Duke of Kent born; Hyder Ali's fleet taken; Princess Augusta Sophia; Princess Elizabeth; Prince Ernest; Mr. Bruce discovers the Nile; Duke of Sussex 1773; King reviews the fleet; Duke of Cambridge; Princess Sophia born; Earl of Chatham; Prince Octavius; Admiral Rodney victory; No popery riots in London; Prince Alfred born. Died; Gibraltar; Quis separabit MDCCLXXXIII; Peace; Handel; Commerce with France. Commercial treaty; Botany Bay; Kings alarming illness; General thanksgiving for the recovery of his Majesty; Convention between Great Britain and Spain; Riots at Birmingham; War commences between Britain and France; Magna Charta; Valenciennes retaken; Spain declare war; Mutiny; Erin Gobrah. Rebellion in Ireland; Defeat at ??; Dutch fleet surrender in the ??; Bread prohibeted [sic} till it had been baked 24 hours; Embargo; Peace proclamed; War declared against France; Hanover taken by the French; Bank of England. 1804?; Trafalgar; Abolition of the slave trade; Laying the foundation of Downing College Cambridge; Danish navy; 12,000 Spanish troups; Sir John Moore Aug. 17 1809; Vaccine estabishm Jan 16 1808; Colin Wardle. Mrs Claridge?; Duke of York resigns his office; Jubilee; Image 2

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1810
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Bodleian Libraries University of Oxford
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