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Contents: Introduction, John Bonehill and Geoff Quilley; Gloire surrenders: Watteau's military paintings, Julie Ann Plax; Making national heroes? A survey of the social and political functions and meanings of major British funeral monuments to naval and military figures, 1730-70, Matthew Craske; Legitimating the British empire: the monuments to General Wolfe in Westminster Abbey, Joan Coutu; Our man in Havanna: representation and reputation in Lieutenant Philip Orsbridge's Britannia's Triumph (1765), Sarah Monks; Questions of loyalty: the representation of the British West Indian colonies during the American Revolutionary War, Geoff Quilley; Exhibiting war: John Singleton Copley's The Siege of Gibraltar and the staging of history, John Bonehill; The embodiment of strength: depicting a general as civil leader, Tony Halliday; 'Shocking sights of woe': Charles Bell and the Battle of Waterloo, Philip Shaw; The matérial of war: Waterloo and its culture, Susan Pearce; Index.