Warring against the heavens: seeking to scare a comet. The Dalai Lama holding the ashes of his first embodiment. A cricket match: tickling crickets with rats' whiskers to encourage them to fight. The strangest uniforms in one of the strangest of scenes. The five-colours replaces the dragon: New China in London. Crying the war: drumming-up troops in a Turkish village. King Ferdinand’s sword-arm: the Bulgarian commander-in-chief. The Turkish navy and army’s concerted action on the Tchataldja lines. Seeker of the price of neutrality in the Near East. “The Illustrated London News” as surgical appliance in war. The fall of “the most strongly fortified place in the Balkans”: taking Adrianople. Portret miniatuur van generaal-majoor Hendrik Detmers (1761-1825)