2-710-753 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Cossack Patrol and Russian Infantry', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'In a town only just evacuated by the retreating Germans, the Russians being in hot pursuit, and waiting the command to advance. Although the ponies on which the Cossacks are mounted are very small, they are very strong and hardy, and eminently suited for the conditions of the Russian campaign.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. IV, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]