A historical contemporary newspaper cutting titled "Gen. Chamberlain-Bonaparte and his army return from South Africa" with the caption "With apologies to Meissonier". The sketch shows the British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain as Napoleon leadimg a defeated army, referencing the retreat from moscow in 1812. Reprinted from the The Amsterdammer and published in the Daily Mail on 23rd November 1899.


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