Roman army officer Publius Horatius Cocles defending the Pons Sublicius bridge in Rome from the invading army of Etruscan King Lars Porsena of Clusium, 6th century BC. With Spurius Larcius and Titus Herminius Aquilinus. Defence du Pont de Rome par Horatius-Cocles et deux autres guerriers intrepides. Copperplate engraving by Martin Poltzel after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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