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Artistic depictions of historical battles and military camps, showcasing soldiers on horseback, camp scenes, and famous battles in oil paintings.

The Battle of Mir on 9 July 1812, Krasovsky, Nikolai Pavlovich (1840-1906)
The Battle of Mir on 9 July 1812, Krasovsky, Nikolai Pavlovich (1840-1906)
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Richard Barrett Davis, 1782-1854, British, Foxhunting: The Few Not Funkers, 1840. Oil on canvas.
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The Army Camp at Rijen, Anonymous, 1831 - 1835 painting Army camp of Dutch troops in Rijen, in or after the ten -day campaign in 1831. Long rows of white tents, marching soldiers on the right, in the foreground some visitors. Netherlands oil paint (paint). canvas  (military) camp with tents Rows
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Franco Prussian War. Battle of Sedan. 1 sept. 1870. Capture of Emperor Napoleon III. Otto von Bismarck escorts Emperor Napoleon III. Engraving by A. Closs. Nuestro Siglo, 1883. Later colouration. Author: A. Cross.
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Crimean War (1853-1856). Siege of Sevastopol, 1854-1855, by Franz Alekseyevich Roubaud (1856-1928). The city, on the Black Sea, was besieged for 11 months. Detail. Museum of Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol. Crimean Peninsula. Ukraine.
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Banking, Bartering and Shipping in New Amsterdam
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ALABES, Fidencio (19th century). Battle of Ayacucho. Battle on the 9th December 1824. General Sucre defeats the royalist troops led by the viceroy La Serna. Oil on canvas.
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CRAIGHEAD- CAPITULACIONES DE LEE -SOLDADOS CONFEDERADOS RECOGER BANDERA CONJ Nº 21926. Author: MORRIS BROOKE. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Daytona.
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EXPEDICION A LAS ISLAS TERCERAS - AZORES - CAMPAÑA DE 1580 DE ALVARO BAZAN - MARQUES DE SANTA CRUZ - CONTRA PRIOR DE CRATO. Location: MONASTERIO-PINTURA. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN. PRIOR DE CRATO. ALVARO DE BAZAN-MARQUES DE SANTA CRUZ.
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Alexander II of Russia (1818-1881). Czar of the Russian Empire. Assassination of the Czar by a bomb thrown by Ignati Grinevitski at the feet of the Czar. St. Petersburg. Explosion of the bomb that mortally wounded Emperor Alexander II on the Catherine Canal pier, in the afternoon of March 13t, 1881. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, 1881. Later colouration.
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The Explosion of the Spanish Flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar. On 25 April 1607, thirty Dutch ships took the Spanish fleet by surprise in the Bay of Gibraltar. The Spanish vessels, which posed a threat to Dutch trade, were destroyed. It was the first major Dutch victory at sea. The painter represented this victory in triumphantstyle, with the Spanish flagship exploding and dozens of crewmembers flying up into the air.
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Siege Of Sevastopol by Sir Michael Anthony Shrapnel Biddulph, Lithograph, watercolour, 1854, 1823-1904, Ukraine, Sevastopol, State Museum of the Defence of Sevastopol 1854-1855
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An explosion on the steamboat Alfred Thomas at Easton, Pennsylvania; a few people are standing on the shore of the river and Easton is visible to the left, in the background.
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Escort of President Wilson, St. Augustine Square Andr� Deguged (1867-1944). "The escort of President Wilson, Place Saint-Augustine - 14 December 1918". Oil on canvas.
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Italy, Bologna, I Carabinieri
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Polonia 1863 (Poland Enchained) Matejko, Jan (1838 1893)
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Danish Whaling Station. Date/Period: 1634. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,210 mm (47.63 in); Width: 1,970 mm (77.55 in). Author: Abraham Speeck.
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Juan Galo Lavalle (1797-1841). Argentine military and political figure. Driving the corpse of General Juan Lavalle by the Quebrada de Humahuaca, 1889. By Nicanor Blanes. The escape of Lavalle's soldiers following his assassination by federalist supporters of Rosas at San Salvador de Jujuy. National Historical Museum. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
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Scene from the Russo-Japanese war, Vladimirov, Ivan Alexeyevich (1869-1947)
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Parade to celebrate the ending of hostilities in the Kingdom of Poland on 6th October 1831 by Chernetsov, Grigori Grigorievich (1802-1865) State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 1837 Oil on canvas 48x71 Russia Russian Painting of 19th cen. Genre,His
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Captured by Morgan's cavalry at La Vergne, Tennessee, 1863 - digital file from original item | Library of Congress
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Frederick Henry at the Surrender of Maastricht, 22 August 1632. Dating: 1633 - 1680. Measurements: h 138 cm × w 201 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Pieter Wouwerman (manner of).
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The Retreat of Napoleons Army from Russia in 1812.  Artist: Ary Scheffer, Dutch, active France 1795-1858
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'Cavalry Battle'. Flanders, 17th century. Dimensions: 28,5x30 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Unknown Flemish Painter. 17th century.
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Charge of the heavy cavalry brigade, 25th October 1854 during the Crimean War
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General Shi Lang with Company Officials at a Well on the Sea, by Anonymous Chinese artist, 18th century. Shi Lang was a Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing dynasties in the 17th century (BSLOC_2016_2_268)
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'Battle of Saint Quentin', 1692-1693, Oil on canvas, 53 cm x 168 cm, P00184. Author: LUCA GIORDANO. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Night Watch, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642, Dutch painting, oil on canvas. The painting, originally titled 'Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch,' was painted for one of the halls of Amsterdamís civic guard, the cityís militia and police (BSLOC_2016_3_21)
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The Surrender of Breda (Las lanzas), by Velázquez Diego Rodriguez de Silva y, 1633 - 1635, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Spain, Prado National Museum. Detail. Background with landscape flags spears: lances hills battlefield soldiers.
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Spanish school. The Charge or Barcelona. Olot, Garrotxa regional museum. Author: RAMON CASAS Y CARBO (1866-1932). Location: MUSEO COMARCAL DE LA GARROTXA. Olot. GERONA. SPAIN.
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'Empreror Nicholas II Presenting the Colour to the 145th Novocherkassk Infantry Regiment'. Russia, 1900. Dimensions: 75,5x116,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Narkiz Bunin.
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Cándido López, desembarco del ejercito Argentino frente a las trincheras de Curuzú, 1891, óleo sobre tela, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) ,Buenos Aires, republica Argentina, cono sur, South America.
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'Crossing of the San Joaquin River Paraguay 1865', 1876-1885, Oil on canvas. Author: LOPEZ CANDIDO. Location: MUSEO HISTORICO NACIONAL. BUENOS AIRES.
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Capture of a rebel brigade, July 1st 1863 Memorabilia, 14th Regt. N.Y.S.M
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The Night Watch or The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq, 1642. Oil on canvas. Rembrandt van Rejn (1606-1669) Dutch painter. Men of the civic guard.
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History of Italy. Five Days of Milan. Uprising of the citizens of Milan against the Austrian occupation. It took place between 18 and 22 March 1848: "Combat at the Colonne di San Lorenzo", by Ambrogio Fermini (1811-1883). Oil on canvas, 1860. Museum of the Risorgimento. Milan. Italy. Author: Ambrogio Fermini (1811-1883). Italian artist.
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Battle of Marengo, 14 June 1800
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Diamond mine. South Africa. Kimberley. Inside. Engraving. 19th centory.
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CARLOS III REY DE ESPAÑA. MADRID 1716-1788 "LA BAHIA DE NAPOLES EL DIA DE LA PARTIDA DE CARLOS III" OLEO DE PIETRO FABRIS. PATRIMONIO NACIONAL. Author: PIETRO FABRIS (1740-1792).
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Cándido López, Desembarco del ejercito Argentino frente a las trincheras de Curuzú, 1891, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA), Buenos...
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Indian Scouting Party Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926 American) Watercolor on paper
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Tuileries take, August 10, 1792 ". Paris, Carnavalet museum. 39464-2 ARRONDISSEMENT I, IER 1ER 1, LEGISLATIVE, PRISE, REVOLUTION FRANCAISE, Tuileries, combat
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River View With Sentry Post. River face with guard post. In the bend of a river is a turret with a beacon and a cannon. Different boats sail in the foreground and right on the water.
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Japan: 'Commodore Perry meeting the Imperial Commissioners at Yokohama'. Lithograph by W.T. Petris, 1856. The Perry Expedition was a U.S. naval and diplomatic expedition to Japan, involving two separate trips to and from Japan by ships of the United States Navy, which took place during 1853-54. The expedition was commanded by Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858). It resulted in the opening of Japan to American and international trade, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the western 'Great Powers'.
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Joan of Arc taken Prisoner.Jeanne d'Arc captured by Burgundians, May 23, 1430.
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Celebrations in honor of Giuseppe Garibaldi in Sferisterio arena in Macerata. Detail. Italian Unification (Risorgimento), Italy, 19th century.
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Prince of Listenois entering Smyrna, 1766. Turkey, 18th century.
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Finding the body of Gustav II Adolf (19 December 1594) (16 November 1632) of the House of Wasa, King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, after the Battle of Luetzen, one of the main battles of the Thirty Years' War, on 16 November 1632, between a Protestant, predominantly Swedish army led by the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf and the predominantly Catholic imperial troops under Albrecht von Wallenstein, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period., Finding the body of Gustav II Adolf
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The Dispatch-Bearer 1880 Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville French The Dispatch-Bearer was exhibited at the Salon of 1881. As de Neuville explained in the exhibition catalogue, this painting depicts an incident from the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71. A French soldier, disguised as a peasant, was caught during an attempt to pass through the German lines surrounding the French city of Metz. He knew that when the German officers finished their search and interrogation he would be shot. Metz capitulated after a fifty-four day siege, and after the war the city was ceded to the Germans. The present painting, extolling the courage and bravery of the captured Frenchman, is an example of the numerous paintings with patriotic and nationalistic themes that appeared in the Salons during the seventies and eighties. As one critic wrote, "This dark haired man with his fine proud features, and strong agile body, and solid lively elegance, this man carries in his face the authentic mark of the race. Who
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Draft depicting a shooting scene with Captain Allaert Cloeck, drawn in brown pen with violet wash over black chalk, realized with graphite pencil, showing minor cracks at the bottom, circa 1630.
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Men of War in a Stiff Breeze, Jan Theunisz Blankerhoff, 1628-1669, Dutch, mid-17th century, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm), clouds, marine art, men, men-of-war, meteorology, rowboat, science, sea, seamen, ships, ships of the line, storm, war, warships, waves (natural events)
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US Civil War, Peninsula Campaign, Seven Days Battles, June 25-July 1, 1862. Wounded Union soldiers crowded in a field hospital at Savage's Station, Virginia. The straw-hatted soldiers are from the Sixteenth New York Infantry who fought at Gaines' Mill on June 27. These men became POWs when the Confederates overtook the area on morning, June 30th, shortly after this photo was taken. Photo by James Gibson with color paint  (BSLOC_2018_7_124)
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Military parade during the Coronation of the Emperor Alexander II in the Moscow Kremlin on 18th February 1855 by Schwarz, Gustav (ca. 1800-after 1855) State History Museum, Moscow 1856 Oil on canvas Germany German Painting of 19th cen. History Pai
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Duke of Wellington Surveying the Field of Waterloo, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1839-1846,
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USA. Sioux warriors creeping up on a farmer plowing his field. 1868. Engraving, Harper's Weekly. Author: C. S. REINHART.
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Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (1848-1912). "Military scene: the drums of the 1st regiment of the Grenadiers de la Garde". Oil on canvas, 1883. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 25646-5 Guard, grenadier, canvas, soldier, musician, regiment, soldier, drum, third republic
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Emblems of the Civil War. Date/Period: 1888. Painting. Oil on canvas. Author: Alexander Pope.
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'The Siege of Carcasonne' an episode in the Albigensian Crusade (1208-1213) led by Simon de Montfort and northern French barons against an heretical Christian sect, the Albigenses. Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921).
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Captain Frans Banningh Cocq Gives  Lieutenant an Order 1642, Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn, 1642.
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First Anglo-Afghan War 1838-1842: Ghanzi: fortress, citadel and remains of 2 minarets. Changed hands a number of times during hostilities. From Atkinson Afghanistan London c1850. Hand-coloured lithograph.
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Bombardment of Strasbourg, August-September 1870, by Ferat, engraving. Franco-Prussian War, France, 19th century.
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On the war path - Indian War Party in the American West
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A General and His Aide-de-camp 1869 Ernest Meissonier French. A General and His Aide-de-camp 437051
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Painting of the Militia Company of District VIII under the Command of Captain Roelof Bicker. Painted by Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613-1670). Dated 17th Century
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Studies of Royal Horse Artillery Uniform, and of an A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo', George Jones, 1786-1869, British, 1815, Oil on paper, Support (PTG): 11 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches (29.8 x 38.7 cm), army, artillery, costume, figure study, royal, soldiers, study (visual work), uniform, Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
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England, Painting of The Explosion on The French Flagship L'Orient During The Battle of The Nile dated 1795
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Reconstruction of the events of the defense of Sevastopol in the Crimean War of 1854-55. Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol - June 20, 2019: Reconstruction of the events of the defense of Sevastopol in the Crimean War of 1854-55. Copyright: xZoonar.com/DenisxPomortsevx 16204383
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Entertainment of the Boston Rifle Rangers by the Portland Rifle Club in Portland Harbor, August 12, 1829 Charles Codman (American, 1800-1842). Entertainment of the Boston Rifle Rangers by the Portland Rifle Club in Portland Harbor, August 12, 1829, 1830. Oil on panel, 24 1/2 × 32 1/2 in., 38.5 lb. (62.2 × 82.5 cm, 17.46kg).   American Art 1830
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Company of Captain Albert Bas and Lieutenant Lucas Conyn, 1645, Govert Flinck, 1645
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painting by L Sabatier. While the German plenipotentiaries prepare to sign the German capitulation calm descends on the captured guns inside the Place de la Concorde, Paris. 1918
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Hunting trip; Gierymski, Maksymilian (1846-1874); 1871 (1871-00-00-1871-00-00);Munich (Germany), trees, autumn, riders, hunting, dogs, realism (style), costume scenes, genre scenes against the background of landscape, purchase (provenance)
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Captain W.F. Bartlett and Lieutenant-Colonel F.W. Palfrey at Camp Benton, MD, Nov. 1861 , Military officers, Military camps, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Palfrey, Francis Winthrop, 1831-1889, Bartlett, William Francis, 1840-1876, American Civil War 20th Massachusetts Regiment
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Captain W.F. Bartlett and Lieutenant-Colonel F.W. Palfrey at Camp Benton, MD, Nov. 1861 , Military officers, Military camps, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Palfrey, Francis Winthrop, 1831-1889, Bartlett, William Francis, 1840-1876, American Civil War 20th Massachusetts Regiment
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Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IVth District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Jan Claesz van Vlooswijck and Lieutenant Gerrit Hudde, Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy, 1642 painting Schutterspiece of the corporalship of Captain Jan Claesz Vloswijck and Lieutenant Gerrit Hudde, Van de Kloveniersdoel in Amsterdam, 1642. The captain and the lieutenant are seated around them are the Schutters, in the middle the Vaandrig. They are probably located in front of the 'De Zwaan' brewery. The Schutters are: Jan Witsen, Hillebrant Bentes, Andries Dircksen van Saane, Jan Bentes, Willem Simonsz Moons, Jan Huybertsen Codde, Roelof Roelofsen de Lange, IJsbrant van de Wouwer, Johannes Looten, Ulrich Petersen, Jacob Bleyenberch, Pieter Tonneman, Pieter Tonneman , Evert Huibertsen Krieck, Hendrik Jansen van As and Nicolaes Kuysten. The shooters are armed with peaks, hella bears, lances and guns.  canvas. oil paint (paint)  land forces (+ citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia). histor
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The Company of Captain Allaert Cloeck and of Lieutenant Lucas Jacobsz. Rotgans, Amsterdam, 1632, Thomas de Keyser, 1632
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Arab mounted warriors cross the Sinai Desert, Egypt. 20th century Egyptian painting
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John George Brown, The Longshoremen's Noon, 1879 The Longshoremen's Noon
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French soldiers in '59, 1859, by Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908), oil on panel, 15.5x32cm.
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Luces y sombra de Baler, image of the last of the Philippines during the siege of Baler, Antonio Gazquez Medina, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
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Wassilij Iwanowitsch Surikow (1848 1916) Morning of Execution of Streltsy 1881. The Streltsy Uprising of 1698 ) was an uprising of the Moscow Streltsy regiments.
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Soldiers Sleeping in a Guardroom, Delacroix, Eugene, 1846.
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Cowboys riding horses
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Ελληνο-Τουρκικος Πολεμος 1912, Μάχη Σαρανταπόρου , Soldiers, Cannons, Campaigns & battles, Balkan Peninsula, History, War of 1912-1913. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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Infographic about the Battle of Hattin (Palestine, 1187), in which Muslims attacked the Christian army at the mountain pass known as Horns of Hattin. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 5000x3139.
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