Frank Millet: War Artist and Writer II

In Ambush is the title of this page illustration (click on image to enlarge) from Campaigning with the Cossacks that appeared in the January 1887 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine. The drawing was from an adventure that had taken place ten years earlier when Millet joined Cossacks fighting Turks in the last Russian-Turkish War.

In the second article which appeared in the February 1887 issue of the magazine, Millet illustrates the capture of a plump and reluctant Turkish officer. Click on image to enlarge.

This drawing (click on image to enlarge) appeared in the January issue entitled A Mortal wound.

Click on image to enlarge this final drawing on the last page of Campaigning with the Cossacks-II.

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