The Dragoons at Waterloo

This engraving by Auguste Trichon, titled “The Dragoons at Waterloo,” depicts a combat scene during the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The image shows cavalrymen and infantrymen locked in a violent clash amid smoke, rearing horses, and fallen bodies. Published in Décembre and Alonnier’s illustrated popular dictionary, the illustration conveys the dramatic memory of the Napoleonic Wars and the importance of Waterloo as a decisive episode in European history.