2-688-348 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Destruction of Retreating Russians at Satschan Lake', 1805, (1896). Retreat by Russian forces that had been defeated by the French at the Battle of Austerlitz (modern-day Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic). The ice broke on the frozen Satschan ponds and men were drowned. 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]