2-688-339 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Charge of the Twelfth Hussars at the Battle of 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. Engraving after the pen-and-crayon sketch by Eric Pape, after the painting by EJ Delahaye. From Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II, by William Milligan Sloane. [The Century Co., Macmillan & Co., Limited, New York & London, 1896]