2-715-189 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Heroic death of Schill's Eleven Officers, 16 September 1809, (1936). 'Heldentod Der Elf Schillschen Offiziere, 16 September 1809'. Prussian officer Ferdinand Baptista von Schill (1776-1809) led an unsuccessful revolution against French domination. Eleven of the officers who supported him were tried on Napoleon's orders and executed in Wesel, (Germany). From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]