19th Century Military Encounters

Illustrations of military encounters, indigenous treachery, and armed confrontations, reflecting the historical context of warfare.

Destruction of the Garrison at Wyoming”, Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, Battle between American Patriots and Loyalists Accompanied by Iroquois during American Revolutionary War, 1778, Book Illustration from Indian Horrors or Massacres of the Red Men”, by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1891

Treachery of the Cherokees, 18th century (c1880). Artist: Unknown

Dramas and geographical news. I Mohammedan, you do not have the right to kill me, vintage engraving. Dramas and geographical news. I Mohammedan, you do not have the right to kill me, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, 1880-81. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10657188

'Sebastopol; A Souave Soldier with his Cat', 1854. From "Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31 Dec 1853 to 30 Dec 1854".

LOSS OF THE NORTHFLEET

In Camp at Valley Forge - American Soldiers in winter camp during USA Revolutionary War, winter of 1777-1778

Smugglers on the March through the Mountains, Austria, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century original, Europe

Destruction of the Garrison at Wyoming”, Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, Battle between American Patriots and Loyalists Accompanied by Iroquois during American Revolutionary War, 1778, Book Illustration from Indian Horrors or Massacres of the Red Men”, by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1891

An engraving depicting Treading the grapes at Chateau Lafitte, Médoc, France 1854

Sailors at midday rest on board, Imperial Navy, sailing ship, bow, calm sea, Germany, historical illustration 1880, Europe

England, Lancashire, Preston, police advancing on crowd, August 1842, Chartism the great 'turn out', From 'The Illustrated London News', 20 August 1842

Illustration depicting the rear of an armoured train with a Gatling gun used during a war in Egypt. Dated 19th century

Six thousand miles through South America. Men aboard the Scotia. Six thousand miles through South America. Men aboard the Scotia. From Travel Diaries, vintage engraving, 1884-85. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660051

THE WAR IN THE EAST, PRINCE CHARLES' JOURNEY FROM BUCHAREST TO KALAFAT

events Franco-Dutch War 1672 - 1679 atrocities of French soldiers in the Netherlands 1672 contemporary copper engraving by Romain de Hooghe,

Sioux Indians attacking a train on the Pacific Railroad line in the western United States, 1869, America, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of...

Soldier explorer running through a jungle in South Africa. A demi depouille. From Jules Verne 3 Russians and 3 English Book, vintage engraving, 1871.

Edith Swannesha, Edith the fair, finds the death of Harold Godwinson after the battle of Hastings. he Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century original

An engraving depicting an arc lamp being used to allow workers to continue into the night. Dated 19th century

The attack of the Tuileries Palace, Palais des Tuileries August 10, 1792. One of the most decisive days of the French Revolution, some historians call it Second Revolution. France, French Revolution 18th century. Old engraved illustration from Histoire de la Revolution Francaise 1845

Wine Carriers, Constantinople, Turkey, Illustration, Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers, by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895

JOHN KILBURN REPELE UN ATAQUE DE INDIOS - 17-8-1775.

M Valerius defeats a Gallic giant in single combat. Date: 349 BCE

Illustration depicting the aftermath of a major train accident. Dated 19th century

Bandits of the sea dada began to kick harder, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, (1879-80).

McLure's expedition in Investigator when he discovered the North-West Passage. Mr Kennedy, the boatswain, competing with wolves for a beast he has shot.

Florian Geyer (c. 1490) (10 June 1525), also known as Florian Vulture from Giebelstadt, was a Franconian nobleman, diplomat and knight. German Peasants War 1525, here his last fight, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

The attack mail. And sides of gun it was the most daring of these rascals earth, vintage engraving. The attack mail. And sides of gun it was the most daring of these rascals earth, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, 1879-80. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656605

Edith Swannesha, Edith the fair, finds the death Harold Godwinson after the battle of Hastings. he Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 be...

A German bandit attacks a traveller with a bat, while another gang member rushes across with extra supplies including an axe. Date: 17th Century

Dwelling nomadic Somalis near Cape Guardafui, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

The Distaff Side of Mountaineering, Transporting a Lady to the Summit of Mount Vesuvius by unknown artist, Italy, circa 1840

military France light infantry Turcos Zouaves wood engraving circa 1871,

The country of snakes. Encampment, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON VISITING WOUNDED SOLDIER DURING WINTER AT VALLEY FORGE PENNSYLVANIA 1777 - 1778

Henry IV of France, called the Great (1553-1610). King of France from 1589 to 1610 and king of Navarre as Henry III from 1572 to 1610. Head of the Huguenots (1569). Henry IV at the Battle of Ivry (1590) during the French Wars of Religion. Engraving by Dupre, 1851.

Torturing a prisoner on the rack, Middle Ages. Artist: Unknown

Republican mutineers seize a ship during the Spanish civil war. Illustration By Carlos Saenz de Tejada (1897 - 1958 ) Spanish painter and illustrator;identified with the Nationalist (Fascist) side in the Spanish Civil War.

Sketches at the Brighton Theatre of War: "Signalling", 1880. '...the use of the flag in "Signalling" is a feature of the Brighton field-day which were noticed by our Artist on the spot; and it would have been easy to observe and portray many other characteristic incidents, if we had more space for their illustration'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.

The Nuremberg Field Serpent, a gun, ca 1510, Germany, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, Europe

Control of caterpillars, pests in the city, pest control around 1875, Berlin, Germany, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exa...

An engraving depicting a pack-mule train in Spain. Dated 19th century

Death of King William II in the New Forest August AD1100

Basque fiddlers, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1877.

The 1870 war in the Ardennes. Attitude of a soldier twenty-four hours a day at his death, his head having been suddenly taken off by a cannonball. Observation made by Dr Rossbach on the battlefield of Beaumont near Sedan 1870, France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1883

The first postman arriving at a new settlement in the Wild West, America, historical illlustration, about 1886

Spitten man, a woman with a basket and soldiers on horseback; Study pictures / Etudes Gravées. A spitten man, a woman with a baskets two soldiers on horseback on a country road. There is a draftsman in the roadside.

Capture of John Andre

Guards day and night view, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Mistress Branican, 1891.

military, cavalry, soldiers setting up an ambush, 17th century, wood engraving, 19th century,

'Experimental Gunnery' A nervous crowd watch as a cannon is tested. Date: circa 1500

Platelayer signalling that the track is clear

Released Prisoners - The dance upon the deck of the New York. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Star of the South (Steamship), 1860-1870, New York (Ship), 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military life, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Prisoners, Union, Ships, 1860-1870, Fiddles, 1860-1870, Dancing, 1860-1870, United States, South Carolina, Charleston

This 1887 illustration shows a cartload of golddiggers setting off for the mines in 1848 in California.

A sketch showing fires made to disinfect the streets of Granada. In the month of August in 1885 five hundred people every day were dying of cholera. Heaps of bodies were left unburied creating a terrible stench and worsening the spread of the disease. Date: 1885

Franklins kite experiment, c1752, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American scientist, statesman and printer flying a kite in a thunderstorm and about to draw a spark from a metal key attached to the kite string, proving the electrical nature of thunderstorms, From Annals of Industry and Genius by CL B

Woodcut engraving depicting Victorian miners excavating part of an ancient Roman wall in London. Dated 19th Century

Winter camp in the Crimea, preparation of soup, 1855, Crimean War, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

events War of the Spanish Succession 1701 - 1714 the Imperial army commanded by Prince Eugene of Savoy is crossing the Trentinian Alps into Italy 1701 copper engraving ""Theatrum Europaeum"" volume 16 publiched by Matthaeus Merian descendants Frankfurt am Main 1708,

Engraving depicting a scene in one of the four stokehole's of EMS Conqueror during exercises. Dated 19th Century

Aiming a Mortar, in Jacksons Connecticut battery. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Jackson, Lieutenant, Military service, United States, Army, Connecticut Heavy Artillery, 1st (1862-1865) , Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, Artillery (Weaponry), 1860-1870, Forts & fortifications, 1860-1870, Mortars (Ordnance), 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns & battles, Petersburg (Va.), History, Siege, 1864-1865, United States, Virginia, Petersburg

On board a ship the waiter spills the soup because of the high swell, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact da...

Entrance gate of Schafenburg Castle on Gaisberg mountain, historic illustration, illustrated war chronicle 1870 to 1871, German campaign against France

American cowboys duel with pistols from the horse, woodcut, 1885, USA, North America

Death of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore (1761-1809) Irish-born British soldier, after victory at Corunna on British retreat from Madrid. Buried at midnight in Corunna Citadel, 16 January 1809. Subject of Charles Wolf's poem (1817) 'The Burial of Sir John Moore'

Construction of the transcontinental telegrpah. Ilustration of 1867 from Harper's Weekly. A Pony Express rider gallops past workers building the nesw line. US.

An engraving depicting an outbreak of Cholera in Granada - fires of tar and sulphur was burned in an attempt to disinfect the streets while on the left, a stretcher party is collecting a victim who will be taken to the hospital. At the height of the epidemic in August 500 people a day were dying in Granada alone. Dated 19th century

The defeat of the White Guard Army of Wrangel.

Tarpeya. Vestal romana. Durante el asedio de los sabinos al Capitolio traicionó a los romanos y fue muerta por los sabinos, aplastándola con sus pesados escudos y arrojada desde la roca Tarpeya. Grabado de 1866.

Mountaineers on the firndach of Ackerlspitze, Kaisergebrige, Austria, woodcut from 1864

'Russia's Treatment of her Prisoners; Notes at Kharsakov, Saghalien, Eastern Siberia; 'Labour without Honour', convicts returning from work', 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 41. January to June, 1890.

The three culprits. They were taken in the presence of the captain, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1879-80).

Potato store being attacked in Galway, Ireland, when the distress of hunger had become too great for the poor, squalid and unpitied inhabitants to endure their misery any longer. This particular attack took place on Monday,13th of June and was part of the Galway starvation riots that took place that day. Date: 25 June 1842

'The Not-At-All-At-Home Secretary', 1887. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne

Messenger delivering letters in ancient Japan circa 1700

Government troops destroy weapons seized from the Communards.

'Shoeing Forge of the New South Wales Artillery at Suakim', c1885, (1902). Artist: Unknown.

Engraving depicting a Lapland encampment with a man approaching in on skis. Dated 19th Century

Cartagena, which has declared itself independent, is besieged by government forces. Date: 1874

Kingdom of Italy. Clericalists's resistance to modernisation. Lithography by G. Gorra. Il Fischietto, 1857.

Crusader army is ambushed by Turks, Crusades were strategically, religiously and economically motivated wars sanctioned by the Latin Church between 1095-99 and the 13th century, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century original

World War I 1914-1918. French poster calling for aid for Alsace-Lorraine, 1916..

Sur le Champ de Carnage, WW1 caricature by illustrator Rata Langa showing German Prussian Crown Prince, Kronprinz Wilhelm von Preussen and Kaiser Wilhelm II walking among killed soldiers on the Verdun battlefield

George De Long (USA), in his ship 'Jeanette', proved that the Arctic Sea ice is moved by ocean currents. The midnight sun - meeting with Netchillir eskimos. Date: 1879 - 81

Engraving showing a sledging party leaving an invalid, and a carer, in an ice cave; then heading back to base to fetch help, British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876. Many of the men on this expedition suffered from scurvy, which was never more dangerous than when the sick were participating in sledging operations. In the summer of 1875 the British Admiralty sent Captain George Nares with two ships, HMS 'Alert' and HMS 'Discovery', to make an attempt to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound.

Line engraving of the execution of Admiral Byng. Engraved by Thomas Bowles. Dated 1757

The Uniforms of the Army of Austria in 1869, Hussars and Officers, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century pattern, exac...

Soldier explorers and Makololo tribe native hunters with a dead lion in South Africa. Soldier explorers and Makololo tribe native hunters with a dead lion in South Africa. From Jules Verne 3 Russians and 3 English Book, vintage engraving, 1871. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10647499

A prisoner-of-war scene by Murray Griffin, the official war artist, A.F. Malaysia, 1944. From the Australian war Memorial Archives. November 24, 1950. (Photo by Australian War Memorial Canberra).

GUZMAROLI'S HUT, CAPRERA; LUIGI GUZMAROLI IS THE ONLY ONE OF GARIBALDI'S STAFF AT CAPRERA WHO HAS A SEPARATE ESTABLISHMENT. HIS SMALL HUT MAY BE LOOKED UPON AS THE KEEP TO THE WALLED INCLOSURE SURROUNDING THE GENERAL'S HOUSE. NO ONE CAN APPROACH WITHOUT PASSING BY HIS DOOR, AND AT NIGHT HE SEELPS WITH ONE EYE OPEN, AND A SIX-SHOT CARBINE WITHIN HIS REACH.

Guerra de sucesión (1714). Las autoridades felipistas quemando las libertades y privilegios de Catalunya. Barcelona, 1714. Grabado de 1850.

Le Destin molestant les Anglois. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 757. Estaing, Charles Henri,comte d',1729-1794. , International relations,France,1770-1780. , United States,History,Revolution, 1775-1783.

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DISPUTA POR LA PROPIEDAD DE TIERRAS - COLONO EXILIADO - GRABADO.

Iazyges warriors, wearing their traditional scale armours. Sarmatian nomadic tribe. Ancient Sarmatia. Engraving. "Los Héroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra". Volume V. 1855.

Illustration showing Red Army soldiers returning from Poland, to Russia during the Russian Revolution. 1917

French field cannon Date: 18th century

The Army of the PotomacA Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty Published 1862 United States. Wood engraving on paper . Winslow Homer

World War I 1914-1918. French poster calling for aid for Alsace-Lorraine, 1916..

Amazoness archers fighter. Dahomey, Central Africa, Old 19th century engraved illustration, Le Tour du Monde 1863

The Capture of John Wilkes Booth, The Slayer of President Abraham Lincoln, April 1865

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