3-016-937 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The War in Denmark: the town of Sonderburg in ruins after the bombardment, 1864. Engraving '...from a sketch taken by Mr. Simonsen, our Danish Artist, in the town of Sonderburg a fortnight after its bombardment - that cruel and wanton act, for which, as Earl Russell has observed, "the Prussian army must remain under the reprobation of all civilised countries." The view which is here presented shows what damage was caused to the houses by the enemy's shells falling in the little square of Sonderburg, near the newly-built Townhall. But it must be left to the imagination to conceive the worse injuries that were inflicted by this bombardment upon the unfortunate population, of whom nearly a hundred, many of them women and children, are said to have been killed within twenty-four hours, to say nothing of the sufferings of hundreds more, who were driven in one night from the shelter of their homes and dispersed through the surrounding country. It was on the evening of the 2nd of April, and on the next day, a Sunday, that the Prussian artillery performed this feat'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.