There was a holiday mood in Cherbourg that Sunday - June 19, 1864. The morning weather was perfect. It was the type of fine day seen in northern France when spring was passing into summer. Several hundred Parisians had taken advantage of a new weekend excursion train from Paris to Cherbourg to spend Saturday on Cherbourg's beaches. Most had chosen to stay an extra day skipping the trains return on Sunday morning. Among them was Edouard Manet, the French artist, one of the pioneers of Impressionism. Several British and French yachts were also in Cherbourg that morning. These included Deerhound, a British steam yacht that had steamed into Cherbourg on the Saturday, to pick up the owner, John Lancaster, and his family, who were vacationing in France. Like the Parisian beachgoers, it delayed its departure to await the events of that Sunday morning.
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