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The War in Denmark: Repulse of the Prussians on March 28, viewed from the Danish Redoubts..., 1864. Creator: Unknown.

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The War in Denmark: Repulse of the Prussians on March 28, viewed from the Danish Redoubts, 1864. 'We have engraved this week a sketch by one of our own countrymen..., taken from one of the Danish redoubts. The foreground is filled up with a breastwork, a group of soldiers, and a mounted field-piece. The prospect is towards the Avnbierg or Ruhenberg hill on the left, the villages of West and East Düppel in the centre, and the Büffel Koppel wood farther off on the right...the masses of Prussian infantry...were broken and dispersed by the fire of Danish guns at once from the redoubts before them and from the war-steamer Rolf Krake, on their right flank. Beyond the gently swelling ground to the left are the waters of the inlet called the Venningbund, and in the extreme distance we perceive the twin steeples of Broacker Church...The small hamlet of East Düppel, which lies in the middle, having been destroyed some days before, when the Prussians first occupied the Ruhenberg, could not afford them any shelter. They had formed their columns at three o'clock that morning in the village of West Düppel, which was subsequently set on fire by the Danish shells, and which is seen burning'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A25_496

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Droits gérés

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26,8Mo (2,9Mo) / 31,3cm x 21,4cm / 3702 x 2531 (300dpi)

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