Sketch in pen and ink by George Cruikshank depicting his brother Robert heading a boy regiment, with himself in the front rank.

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Sketch in pen and ink by George Cruikshank depicting his brother Robert heading a boy regiment, with himself in the front rank. Many of these boy regiments were formed at the start of the 19th century when an invasion of England by Napoleon was anticipated. George Cruikshank, 1792 – 1878. British caricaturist and book illustrator. From The Strand Magazine published 1897.

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