Evacuation of Holland; or, fire and water too much for Dumourier

Hand-colored engraved caricature plate by Dent published March 22, 1793; British soldiers feeding three local men poised on a wall defecating at the French army which is being hit by the 'missiles'. A fallen French officer exclaims: "Oh! Curse your British Balls and Second hand Gin - it's all up with me - I shant be able to keep my engagements - no glorious Luncheon at Amsterdam nor victorious Feast at London - oh! the Devil Dam the rude Boors for stopping me in my way!" A British officer on the right commands: "Fire away Mynheer - my men shall back you and take care of your Breeches." One of his men asks: "What would the half starved San Coluttes say to such Ammunition." Hand-colored engraved caricature plate by Dent published March 22, 1793; British soldiers feeding three local men poised on a wall defecating at the French army which is being hit by the 'missiles'. A fallen French officer exclaims: "Oh! Curse your British Balls and Second hand Gin - it's all up with me - I shant be able to keep my engagements - no glorious Luncheon at Amsterdam nor victorious Feast at London - oh! the Devil Dam the rude Boors for stopping me in my way!" A British officer on the right commands: "Fire away Mynheer - my men shall back you and take care of your Breeches." One of his men asks: "What would the half starved San Coluttes say to such Ammunition." A satire on the evacuation of the Netherlands by the French after the defeat at Neewinden. This was not a fight but the result of an informal armistice on March 1793 between General Dumouriez and the Prince of Coburg Oblong medium folio. New York, Michael Weintraub, 2010 Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)