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The War in Denmark: the town of Sonderburg in ruins after the bombardment..., 1864. Creator: Unknown.

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The War in Denmark: the town of Sonderburg in ruins after the bombardment, 1864. Engraving '...from a sketch taken by Mr. Simonsen, our Danish Artist, in the town of Sonderburg a fortnight after its bombardment - that cruel and wanton act, for which, as Earl Russell has observed, "the Prussian army must remain under the reprobation of all civilised countries." The view which is here presented shows what damage was caused to the houses by the enemy's shells falling in the little square of Sonderburg, near the newly-built Townhall. But it must be left to the imagination to conceive the worse injuries that were inflicted by this bombardment upon the unfortunate population, of whom nearly a hundred, many of them women and children, are said to have been killed within twenty-four hours, to say nothing of the sufferings of hundreds more, who were driven in one night from the shelter of their homes and dispersed through the surrounding country. It was on the evening of the 2nd of April, and on the next day, a Sunday, that the Prussian artillery performed this feat'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A26_056

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Droits gérés

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57,7Mo (5,5Mo) / 46,0cm x 31,4cm / 5433 x 3709 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation building buildings female women woman people male man men destruction house houses arts country toy toys Denmark Danish art guy smoke burning fire flame flames shell shells sad British color devastation refuge damage damaged ruins ruin explosion war location debris rubble century horse drawn Britain sadness newspapers press print explosions fleeing concept ruined B&W rocking horse homeless homelessness aftermath engraved engraving danes dane refugee horse-drawn road Transport Colour 19th century bombing bombardment black & white black and white B W white and black on fire belongings civilian civilians nineteenth century possessions refugees shelling The Print Collector horse and cart horse-drawn vehicle Illustrated London News ILN newspaper horsedrawn Unknown débris 19th-century Second Schleswig War Dano-Prussian War German Danish War Prusso-Danish War Sonderborg Sønderborg Sonderburg Niels Simonsen Simonsen Niels