2-715-142 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

General Seydlitz gives the signal to advance at Rossbach, 5 November 1757, (1936). At the Battle of Rossbach (in Germany), Prussian cavalry officer Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721-1773) and his men routed the French and Imperial armies. He is usually credited with developing the Hussar regiments of Frederick the Great's Army. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]