Return Gallery

Napoleons funeral carriage, 1840, (1921). Creator: Unknown

Napoleon's funeral carriage, 1840, (1921). Char Funebre De Napoleon'. The retour des cendres ('return of the ashes') was the return of the mortal remains of Napoleon I of France from the island of St Helena, where he had died in exile, to France, and their burial in the Hotel des Invalides in Paris in 1840. Engraving published by l'Imagerie d'Epinal. From "Napoleon", by Raymond Guyot, [H. Floury, Paris, 1921]

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The Girl I Left behind Me, 1880, (c1902). Creator: Unknown

The Girl I Left behind Me, 1880, (c1902). After a painting in the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester. Soldiers returning victorious from the Napoleonic wars. From The Nation's Pictures. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain, reproduced in colour. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, c1902]

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Colored Soldiers who covered themselves with glory in France, returning to US

An undated sterograph of a WW1 scene captioned: "Colored Soldiers who covered themselves with glory in France, returning to US" No. 14338 published by Underwood & Underwood. The image is of a multi-tiered ship deck crowded with soldiers in uniform. Some soldiers stand on ladders going from one level to the other

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