Napoleon Bonaparte and his Army retreating from the battlefied of Liepzig, after the premature destruction of the bridge on the Elster River, 1813. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor Syntax, T. Tegg, London, 1815.

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