1-345-404 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

George, Duke of Cambridge, British soldier, c1890. A cousin of Queen Victoria, the Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904) commanded a division in the Crimean War of 1853-1856 and was present at Alma and Inkerman. Promoted to the rank of Field Marshal in 1862, he became Commander-in-Chief of the British army in 1887. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.