2-688-338 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Bonaparte Checking The French Retreat at Marengo', 1800, (1896). The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy. Typogravure after the aquarelle by F De Myrbach. From Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II, by William Milligan Sloane. [The Century Co., Macmillan & Co., Limited, New York & London, 1896]