DOG AND GUN, CHURCH GATE

A Dog and Gun is recorded in Church Gate when its landlord, a Sergeant Major Coltman, recruited there for the Battle of Trafalgar.

Scene from a cartoon of the day depicting the Battle of Trafagar. The Caption reads’ British Tars clear the deck of the Temeraire of French and Spaniards’.

There are quite a few records of Leicester men fighting and dying at the Battle of Trafalgar.

The exact whereabouts in Church Gate of the Dog and Gun is as yet unknown.

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