Title

'Les Anglais sur le Rhin; "La meprisable petite armee" anglaise franchit le Rhin le 12 decembre 1918 Creator: Jean Clair-Guyot.

Caption

'Les Anglais sur le Rhin; "La meprisable petite armee" anglaise franchit le Rhin le 12 decembre 1918: non sans humour, ou peut-etre par hasard, le general Plumer commandant la 2e armee britannique, s'etait place avec son etat-major au-dessous du piedestal supportant la statue equestre de Guillaume II, a l'entre du pont Hohenzollern, a Cologne, pour voir sa cavalerie passer sur la rive droite', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].

Date

1918

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A75_069

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (3,2Mb) / 11,3in x 16,3in / 3395 x 4889 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany animal people male man men animals horses horse riding rider German arts country emperor statue statues art guy occupation bridge bridges British color peace territorial structure royal military war location Armed Forces Cologne century rhineland victory kaiser arrival Britain soldiers soldier royalty first world war horseback TERRITORY concept Nordrhein-Westfalen defeat victorious arriving B&W cavalry defeated Army warfare arrive Colour World War I WWI black & white black and white B W armed services white and black World War One equestrian statue 1910s 20th century allied Hohenzollern Bridge The Print Collector 1st World War Rhenish TGN WW1 Herbert Plumer photograph postwar Herbert Plumer General Plumer Field Marshal Plumer Baron Plumer Lord Plumer Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer HCO Plumer 2nd army occupied territory 1st Viscount Plumer General Sir Herbert Plumer Herbert Charles Onslow Sir Herbert Plumer Jean Clair-Guyot Clair-Guyot Jean Colonel P