‘A true picture of a field of battle’

Edward Orme (1775–1848)
Historic, military, and naval anecdotes, of personal valour, bravery, and particular incidents which occurred to the armies of Great Britain and her allies, in the last long-contested war, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo…
London: Edward Orme, 1819
Harley-Mason.a.78, plate opposite p. 49

‘A true picture of a field of battle’, representing the horrors of early nineteenth-century warfare. Engraving by M. Dubourg after Franz Joseph Manskirch.

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