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Forside 1857 The 2nd Dragoon Guards, the Queen's Bays, routing the Lucknow mutineers near the Hyderabad road, Original watercolor signed by Norie; dragoons at left pursuing fleeing mutineers at right. Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858, Oblong folio. Date 1 January 1859. Painting in watercolor by Orlando Norie (1832-1901). Public Domain.

The 2nd Dragoon Guards, the Queen’s Bays, routing the Lucknow mutineers near the Hyderabad road, Original watercolor signed by Norie; dragoons at left pursuing fleeing mutineers at right. Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858, Oblong folio. Date 1 January 1859. Painting in watercolor by Orlando Norie (1832-1901). Public Domain.

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The 2nd Dragoon Guards, the Queen’s Bays, routing the Lucknow mutineers near the Hyderabad road, Original watercolor signed by Norie; dragoons at left pursuing fleeing mutineers at right. Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858, Oblong folio. Date 1 January 1859. Painting in watercolor by Orlando Norie (1832-1901). Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

This is a black-and-white reproduction of “Blowing from Guns in British India”. This particular reproduction was used in Raubstaat England, a 1941 anti-British propaganda leaflet issued by the Nazis. It appeared in that leaflet with the following caption: ‘Title: “Execution of rebellious Sepoys” Caption: “To carry out mass death sentences on rebelious Indian soldiers, English officers found a new form of execution: The condemned were tied to canons and ‘blown into the air.’” A painting by the Russian painter Vasily Vereshchagin.” (1842–1904). Malet i 1880. Public Domain. See Below Maj 10, 1857.
Herman Bang i bod på Kgs. Nytorv med hattedamer i 1905. Foto: Lars Peter Elfelt (1866-1931), fotograf. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

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