Sujet
Sketches of the Insurrection in Servia, 1883. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Sketches of the Insurrection in Servia, 1883. '1. Government Officer, with Drummer, calling on Peasants to Deliver up their Rifles. 2. Receiving the Weapons given up. 3. Paratchin and the Plain of Alexinatz. 4. Insurgents Marching through Paratchin. 5. Fighting between Government Troops and Insurgents at Banja. The report of a complete suppression of the late partial revolt in the newly created Kingdom of Servia is not yet confirmed...the insurrection began with the peasants of the eastern districts, who were instigated by Revolutionary conspirators, in complicity with some of the Panslavists of Russia, to resist the execution of the decree for collecting a large number of militia rifles, issued by the Servian Government during the Turkish War of 1877. About thirty thousand of these rifles had been retained by the peasantry, and it was considered dangerous to leave that quantity of such weapons in their hands...the town of Alexinatx still remains in the power of the insurgents...Short skirmishes took place at Banja...between isolated bands of insurgents and the troops of King Milan I...Many of the political ringleaders have been arrested and tried by court-martial; a priest, a schoolmaster, and a farmer, were shot at Zaitchar'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.
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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A50_372
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Droits gérés
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51,1Mo (5,8Mo) / 30,5cm x 41,9cm / 3606 x 4949 (300dpi)