Historic Battle Scenes

Dramatic depictions of historic battles featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery. The scenes depict intense combat during various European conflicts from the 19th century.

Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, Europe. (Editorial Usage Only)
Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, Europe. (Editorial Usage Only)
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History by Polybius. Volume II. French edition translated from Greek by Dom Vincent Thuillier. Comments of Military Science enriched with critical and historical notes by M. De Folard. Paris, chez Pierre Gandouin, Julien-Michel Gandouin, Pierre-Francois Giffart and Nicolas-Pierre Armand, 1727. Printing by Jean-Baptiste Lamesle Tome II. Military innovations. Cannon shooting while it goes forward at the head of a line, according to the Swedish method. 17th century. Later colouration.
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The attack on the windmill. (part I, 8). Illustrated by Gustave Dore (1832-1883)( Engraved by Heliodore Joseph Pisan(1822-1890). 1864. Later colouration.
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Charge of the 22nd Regiment - USA Colored troop at Petersburg Virginia June 16, 1864
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Historic procession at the second centenary of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, 1836 (plate 4); Optogtes the Dutch armies to Ostende, the 3 July 1600, daily after the BY Nieuwpoort victory; According to the coated show, given by H H students, by the center of the second centenary of the Utrechtsche Hoogeschool. Den 16 Juny 1836.Historic costumed procession of the students of the Hogeschool van Utrecht on June 16, 1836, at the celebration of the second centenary of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. The procession represents the arrival of the state army in Ostend on July 3, 1600, day after victory in the Battle of Nieuwpoort. Fourth plate in a series of ten unnumbered plates, with the groups numbered 11-15
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Eduard Ckam Gallas (1805-1891) and the Officer Corps of the 8th Cuirassier Regiment, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Our brave guardians of peace in the exercise impossible for their duties Victor Spindle (1816-1893). "Our brave guardians of peace in the exercise impossible for their duties". Print.
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The Last Stand of the 44th Regiment at Gundamuck, 1842. William Barnes Wollen 1898
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The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31,1775. Artist: John Trumbull, American, 1756-1843
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Retreat of the Russian army from Moscow in 1812 by Semyonov, Alexei Nikolayevich (*1928) State Borodino War and History Museum, Moscow 1958 Oil on canvas 49,5x70 Russia Soviet Art History Painting
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Battle for Palm Tree Hill.
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Battle of the Pyramids, Dirk Langendijk, 1803
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'Sur le front d'artois - Feuilles d'Album de Jean Lefort; Retour des tranchees d'un bataillon de chasseurs. (Gauchin-le Gal, 7 juillet 1915.)', 1915. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".
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General Wool saves a Mexican family from the Indians, John Ellis Wool, 1784-1869, officer in the United States Army, historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century, record date not stated..
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Battle of Dubis; Waliszewski, Zygmunt (1897-1936); 1916 (1916-00-00-1916-00-00);gift (provenance), battle scenes, historical scenes
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The Battle of Yorktown, October 1781, surveys by topographer Alexandre Berthier. American War of Independence, the United States, 18th century.
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A military encampment. Gustave Dore (1832-1883). Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, 495 x 672mm.
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Siege of Vienna by Turks 1683 unknown artist 17th century
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Ananyev, Mikhail Ananievich (*1925) State Borodino War and History Museum, Moscow 1973 95x140 Oil on canvas Soviet Art Russia History
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Rome defence volunteer, 1851, attributed to Jerome Induno (1827-1890). Second Roman Republic, Italy, 19th century.
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Battue - a hunt in Staszów. Julian Fałat (1853-1929), painter
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DA-SC-85-00907. Country: Unknown
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The Emperor Entering Krakow from the Series Inspection Trip of Emperor Franz Joseph I Around Galicia in September 1880 Kossak, Juliusz (1824 1899)
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NAPOLEON I. EMPERADOR DE FRANCES . 1769 - 1821. " RETIRADA DEL EJERCITO FRANCES DESPUES DE SU ENTRADA EN MOSCU ". HOSTIGADOS POR LOS COSACOS LOS SOLDADOS FRANCESES MURIERON A MILES.
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Napoleon Bonaparte, Retreat from Russia in winter, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact date unknown
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View of the Great Fire of Pittsburgh 1846 - William Coventry Wall
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Turkish (ottoman) soldiers marching. Circa 1914
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Prisoners from the Front, Winslow Homer, 1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America
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North Korea, Pyongyang, Friendship Tower. Paintings of American soldiers being defeated by North Korean and Chinese armies in the Korean War
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The Siberian Intervention (ベリア出兵 - Shiberia Shuppei), or the Siberian Expedition of 1918-1922 was the dispatch of troops of the Entente powers to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part of a larger effort by the western powers and Japan to support White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army in the final year of World War I and during the Russian Civil War. The Imperial Japanese Army continued to occupy Siberia even after other Allied forces had withdrawn in 1920.
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Philippine War of Independence. Manila. Insurgent attack on the barracks of Co. C, 13th Minnesota Volunteers, during the Tondo Fire. Engraving of "The Artistic Illustration," 1899. Colored.
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Austria, Vienna, Turkish Kara Mustafa troops lay siege to Vienna, 1683, diorama
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Charles Claude Pyne, 1802-1878, The London Scottish Volunteer Regiment at Wimbledon Common Rifle Ranges with the Soldiers under canvas, 1872. Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and pen, in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, blued white, wove paper, mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper.
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Infantry patrol, draughtsman: Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht, 1868 - 1933, paper, brush, h 274 mm × w 395 mm
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L'Automobile Pendant la Guerre'. French motorised ambulances and walking wounded towards the end of World War I. After watercolour French war artist Georges Scott (1880-1947).
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Soldiers at camp fire. nieznany malarz polski, painter
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The Shelling of ís-Hertogenbosch by the French, by Josephus Augustus Knip, Dutch painting, oil on canvas. Night battle scene during the French invasion of the Dutch Republic in Sept. 1794. The Dutch flooded a large area around the city to block the invasion. The city fell to the French after a 10 day siege (BSLOC_2016_2_208)
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Digitally restored vintage Civil War print of the Battle of Gettysburg. The famous battle took place in early July 1863 and resulted in the largest number of casualties during The American Civil War.
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The Battle before Caloocan, February 10 , 1899 - View from the Chinese Church - Battery of Utah Artillery in the middle foreground; The Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers of General MacArthur's Division, behind the wall. Major General Arthur MacArthur on inner wall, to right of church. Philippine American War
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The Taking of the Dogubeyazit Fortress, Anonymous
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The Battle of Gettysburg 1894. View f the Union lines on the morning of July 3. Edwin Forbes.
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Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a
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Pickett's Charge, Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pa. , Historic sites, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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The Strike at Le Creusot
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Co Meath, Near Drogheda
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Infographic about the Battle of Austerlitz, one of the most important victories of Napoleon. The French Empire defeated the Russian-Austrian Army and destroyed the Third Coalition. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4960x3188.