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Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.
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Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.

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Lettering: Arma parate, animis et spe præsumite bellum: Ne qua mora ignaros, ubi primum vellere signa Annuerint superi, pubemque educere castris, Impediat, segnesque metu sententia tardet; Interea socios inhumataque corpora terræ Mandemus Virg. Æneid. XI, 18. Georg Philipp Rugendas invent. pinx. et del. Johan̄ Jacob Kleinschmidt sculpsit.

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