Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake, (27. Juli 1744 – 20. Februar 1808), war ein britischer General. Während der irischen Rebellion von 1798 kommandierte er britische Streitkräfte und diente später als Oberbefehlshaber des Militärs in Britisch-Indien.
1924 x 2476 px | 32,6 x 41,9 cm | 12,8 x 16,5 inches | 150dpi
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1887
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Illustration by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878) from History of the Irish rebellion published 1887. The rebellion was brutally repressed by The British, who carried out many killings of civilians and collective punishment of entire communities, actions which would probably today be viewed as war crimes. The British however saw themselves as the victims of the traitorous Irish, and newspapers of the day invariably portrayed the Irish as murderous savages, while the British army and their Protestant allies were portrayed as underdogs and victims. George Cruikshank was fiercely patriotic, and his illustrations invariably portrayed the rebels as mobs of subhuman brutes, whilst the British were portrayed as upstanding defenders of law and order. His illustrations should therefore probably -despite their artistic merit- be viewed as British propaganda. Info from wiki: Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake (27 July 1744 – 20 February 1808) was a British general. He commanded British forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and later served as Commander-in-Chief of the military in British India.
