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19th Century Battles and Troops

Illustrated scenes depicting significant battles from the 19th century, featuring troops in combat and historical military engagements.

Garibaldi's forces defeat the Neapolitans at Milazzo (also spelt Melazzo). Date: 20 July 1860
Garibaldi's forces defeat the Neapolitans at Milazzo (also spelt Melazzo). Date: 20 July 1860
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The explosion of the ammunition factory of Corvilain, near Antwerp, Belgium, on 6 September 1889, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, Europe
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Goldene Bremm area near Saarbruecken, historic illustration, illustrated war chronicle 1870 to 1871, German campaign against France
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Fighting at the castello di Mentana : Garibaldi will be defeated by the papal forces and their French allies, and he himself taken prisoner, though soon released. 3 November 1867
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Engraving depicts Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832 1914) crossing the Vaal River into Transvaal territory, South Africa. Dated 1901
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Black and White Engraving after Gustave Doré; Don quixote Moralising on Ingratitude illustration from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes;
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Joachim Murat has plans for Italian unity and independ ence, aside from his personal ambitions : but an attempted coup leads to his defeat, trial and execution.
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Washington passing the Delaware, evening previous to the Battle of Trenton, December 25th, 1776 during the American Revolution
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The Home Campaign, 1871. 'Artillery covering Retreat of Infantry; Police Camp, Gun Hill; H.R.H. Prince of Wales Head Quarters; the 1st Division Retreating on Chobham Ridges...The retreat of the first division, under Sir Hope Grant, from Aldershott to the Chobham Ridges,...is here illustrated by two sketches - one, of the Grenadier Guards marching, with dragoons and field artillery covering their flank; the other, of a battery prepared in action to defend the line of march. The Prince of Wales's quarters, with the tent occupied by his Royal Highness, and his private mess-tent, in the encampment
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US. A Kansas farmers plowing his land for the first time with oxen. Engraving by Theodore R. Davis. Harper's Weekly, 1868.
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Military exercise on skis, soldiers, Germany, illustration from 1880, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe
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Sketch by ILN special artist, Melton Prior. British troops in tropical helmets survey the destruction by fire of the house of Cetshwayo, King of the Zulus, at the end of the Zulu wars. Date: 1879
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Resistance fighter on a horse, in 1870, Paraguay, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Exact date unknown, South Am...
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Alexander accepts the surrender of PORUS, king of the Pauravas, after defeating him on the Hydaspes (now Jhelum) river in northwest India/Pakistan
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THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA
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Aufstand der christlichen Bevölkerung gegen die türkischen Truppen, 1640, Schlacht bei Mogersdorf durch die Truppen Leopolds erfolgreich abgewehrt, Hi...
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Horsemen from Algeria take part in the insurrection.
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A scene in Sierra Leone, West Africa during the Mendi expedition showing troops of the 3rd Battalion, West India Regiment rushing the stockade at Bongeh. Date: 1898
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Vinegar Hill - Battle 1978 - Eire. May 01, 1936.
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Woodcut of Francis Drake (c1540 - 27th January 1596) landing at the river plate. Dated 1578.
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Egypt. Military intervention and conquest of Egypt by the British. The Egyptian national leader Ahmed 'Urabi or Ahmed Orabi (1841-1911) leading his troops, on the march to the fortified camp of Kafr Dowar. Drawing by Juan Comba. Engraving, detail. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.
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The Massacre of the Macdonalds by the Campbells at Glencoe - 30 were killed and others died in flight
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Engraving showing a sledge party of the American Franklin Search Expedition of 1878-1880, speeding down a steep slope, 15th April 1879. This expedition was one of many to search the Arctic for signs of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845. In 1845 the British Admiralty sent two polar exploration ships, HMS 'Erebus' and HMS 'Terror', to look for the Northwest passage round the northern coast of Canada. The expedition, commanded by Sir John Franklin, disappeared from view l
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Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 - September 22, 1776) was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British and hanged. Engraving.
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British army ranks were substantially swelled by the NNC during the Zulu wars; their local knowledge of terrain and languages were invaluable. Date: 1879
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A night alarm during sentry duty during the 2nd Ashanti War. Native soldiers eyes wide with fear tread softly in the direction of danger. In 1873, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana, the British attacked and virtually destroyed the Asanti capital of Kumasi, and officially declared Ghana a crown colony on 24 July 1874. Date: 21 March 1874
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SECOND PUNIC WAR Carthaginian general Hannibal uses elephants in his crossing of the Alps into Italy
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The Prince of Wales' Visit to Egypt: a portion of the Royal Party leaving the encampment at Djizeh for the Pyramids, 1862. The future King Edward VII in Africa. 'The expedition left Cairo on March 4 and went to Djizeh, thence to the Pyramids on dromedaries provided by his Highness the Viceroy Said Pacha, who took leave of the Prince at the Palace of Djizeh. The Prince and suite remained one night at the Pyramids and returned the following day'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.
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Brilliant charge of United States Cavalry through the village of Fairfax Court House, on May 31, 1861 | Library of Congress
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Recipients taxes in Morocco. This troop of soldiers mounted on horses held the gun in his hand, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, (1879-80).
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Brigadier General MacDonald of the British expedition forces the Tibetan lamas to provide grain for his troops. Date: 1904
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Die Rückkehr des Sultans mit seiner Leibwache vom Selamlik, hier in Constantinopel, Istanbul, 1880, Türkei, Osmanisches Reich, Historisch, authentisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated 1f-4904069
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The Tonkin Campaign (French: Campagne du Tonkin) was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there. The campaign, complicated in August 1884 by the outbreak of the Sino-French War and in July 1885 by the Can Vuong nationalist uprising in Annam, which required the diversion of large numbers of French troops, was conducted by the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, supported by the gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla. The campaign officially ended in April 1886, when the expeditionary corps was reduced in size to a division of occupation, but Tonkin was not effectively pacified until 1896.
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Davy Crockett as Col. in Tennessee militia was portrayed in his traditional frontier costume with his bunting dogs by an artist who never saw him. November 3, 1955.
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Sudáfrica. Un escucha explorador del ejército zulú. Grabado de 1879.
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Gemsjäger im Wallis in der Schweiz, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt