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The Military Triumph at Berlin: the Sedan Trophy at the Potsdam Gate, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

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The Military Triumph at Berlin: the Sedan Trophy at the Potsdam Gate, 1871. German troops return from the Franco-Prussian War. 'The triumphal entry into Berlin...of the choicest troops of the German army, and representatives of all engaged in the late war...was a grand military and national festivity...The way of the troops into the city lay first through the street called La Belle Alliance (which is the Prussian designation for Waterloo), through Konigratz-street (this being another name for Sadowa), round the line of the old town wall, past the Halle Gate and the Anhalt Gate of the city, across the Ascanische-Platz and the Potsdamer-Platz, thence entering through the Brandenburg Gate, crossing the Pariser-Platz, traversing the avenue of the Linden, and coming at length into the Opern-Platz, where, in front of Marshal Blucher's statue, was held the concluding parade. A statue of Berlin was erected at the Halle Gate; and in the Potsdamer-Platz was a trophy of the battle of Sedan, with a colossal group of statues, representing Strasbourg and Metz, seated at the feet of Victory, who looked upon them from a battery of cannon'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A79_482

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46,6Mo (4,2Mo) / 41,7cm x 28,0cm / 4924 x 3310 (300dpi)

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Germany Europe people male group crowd crowds man men square architecture German arts flag flags country monuments statue statues sculpture art sculptures guy colours British celebrations celebration celebrating military war cannon cannons location century Berlin banner banners victory outing triumph Britain newspapers press soldiers soldier day trip print concept battle triumphant victorious day out B&W standard metaphor Potsdamer Platz engraved engraving loot allegory 19th century booty black & white black and white B W allegorical triumphal Monument allegorical figure armaments nineteenth century The Print Collector 1870-1871 artistic school Battle of Sedan Franco-Prussian War Illustrated London News spoils of war TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century triumphalism The Illustrated London News