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a Scotch soldier...met a French officer So Severely wounded as to be in danger of Perishing...and Conducted him to Brussels

lithograph, print

Accession Number

NAM.1975-09-65-3

Description

a Scotch soldier...met a French officer So Severely wounded as to be in danger of Perishing...and Conducted him to Brussels. Lithograph by Gazeau and Co St Marc after Francis, publisher, Gazeau and Co St Marc, 1821, relating to Highlanders, 1815. Associated with Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).

Campaigns

Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815)

Units

Highland Regiments

People

St Marc, Gazeau and Company

Francis

Dimensions

Width: 32.5 cm Text: 27 cm Text: 43.5 cm Text: 5? cm

Inscriptions

bottom right ‘FRANCIS 1821’ ‘transc Lithie.St,,Marc, Gazeau et Cornie,, 10 Radcliff row, City road...’ bottom right ‘On the Battle of Mount St Jean, a Scotch soldier having lost and arm, he was Supplied with a horse to conduct him to the Flying Hospital. On his way thither he/met a French officer So Severely wounded as to be in danger of Perishing for want of assistance. The Scotchman immediately alighted from his horse offered it to the officer whom he/assisted to mount, and conducted him to Brussels’