Desperate encounter in gun boats between Nelson and Don Miguel Tyrason Engraved by G Greatbach drawn by R Hind From Englands Battles by Sea and Land by Lieut Col Williams The London Printing and Publishing Company circa 1890s

Site of Bigelows Desperate Stand at Gen Sickles headquarters Battlefield at the Gettysburg National Battlefield Park and Cemetary Pennsylvania PA

Isaac Merrit Singer (1811-75), American inventor, while his friend George Zieber holds the candle, adjusting tension on his sewing machine in a last desperate attempt to make it work (August/September 1850). Machine patented 185.

Liqueur, Single, Desperate, Headache, Drunk, Sad, Alcohol, Senior, Woman, Drinking, Pensioner, Old, Deprissed, Alone, Sick, Unhappy, Lonely, At Home, Bottle, Glass

Indian Mutiny (Sepoy Mutiny) 1857-1859: Desperate defence of the fort at Futtegurgh where 150 British, of whom only one quarter could bear arms, were under siege.

Liqueur, Single, Desperate, Headache, Drunk, Sad, Alcohol, Senior, Woman, Drinking, Pensioner, Old, Deprissed, Alone, Sick, Unhappy, Lonely, At Home, Sleep, Sleeping, Bottle, Glass

Site of Bigelows Desperate Stand at Gen Sickles headquarters Battlefield at the Gettysburg National Battlefield Park and Cemetary Pennsylvania PA

Dr Jekyll trying desperately to find the chemicals that will enable him to cast off his Mr Hyde persona., From The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published 1886, Illustration by Edmund J. Sullivan (1866-1933/English)