2-715-248 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Field Marshal von Blumenthal, (1936). 'Feldmarschall Von Blumenthal'. Portrait of Count Karl Konstantin Albrecht Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (1810-1900), Prussian Field Marshal, chiefly remembered for his decisive intervention at the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866, his victories at Wörth and Weissenburg and above all his refusal to bombard Paris in 1870 during the siege, which he directed. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]