Title

The battlefield of the Alma, night after the battle, 1854 (1857).Artist: DJ Pound

Caption

The battlefield of the Alma, night after the battle, 1854 (1857). The Battle of the Alma (September 20, 1854), which is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War, took place in the vicinity of the River Alma in the Crimea. An Anglo-French force under General St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan defeated General Menshikov's Russian army, which lost around 6000 troops. From England's Battles by Sea and Land, volume IV: Russia and Turkey, by Lieutenant Colonel Williams, Published by The London Printing and Publishing Company (1857).
The Print Collector collection

Date

1857

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C44_018

Model release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

50,1Mo (6,3Mo) / 42,8cm x 29,3cm / 5059 x 3460 (300dpi)

Keywords

England night country British English dead death war location century Britain torch first soldiers soldier wound concept time of day B&W MONOCHROME wounded engraving publication dead body 19th century battlefield black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector carnage Crimean War 1853-1856 1st Baron Raglan Battle of the Alma engraving England's Battles by Sea and Land flaming torch Somerset R Williams DJ Pound D J Pound Fitzroy HJ Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant Colonel Williams R Hind Hind Armand-Jacques Leroy de Armand-Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud Saint-Arnaud Marshal of France Fitzroy HJ Somerset Raglan Fi Pound DJ Lieutenant Colonel Williams R Hind Armand-Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud Fitzroy HJ Somerset 1st Baron Raglan engraving