02 Works, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Les dernières cartouches/ The Last Cartridges, with footnotes

Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1836–1885)
The Last Cartridges, Prussian War in 1870, c. 1873

Oil on canvas
Bazeilles, museum of the House of the last cartridges

September 1st 1870, and French soldiers, besieged inside a house in the Ardennes’ village of Bazeilles, are fighting a desperate battle against the Prussian invader…

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