The Retreat


This picture from a French publication shows what the artist imagined to be the fate of the British column. In addition to the redcoats and officers, you can also make out women and children. Although notably, they are European women and children, wheras in reality most of the women and children were Indian wives and families of the sepoys.


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by Stephen Luscombe