Historic Battles and Conflicts

Depictions of various historical battles, featuring troops in combat, military tactics, and dramatic engagements from different periods.

The Irish anti-tithe agitation: The affray at Carrickshock, also known as the Carrickshock Massacre or Battle of Carrickshock. This ocurred on 14 December 1831 during the "Tithe Wars" when Catholic tenant farmers confronted the Irish Constabulary. The police contingent formed an escort to Edmund Butler who had been tasked with serving enforcement notices on the Catholic farmers who had been witholding the tithe payments to the local protestant priest. In the ensuing action, 11 constables were killed or mortally wounded, and 14 severely injured. Illustration from Cassell's History of England.

First Schleswig War 1848 - 1851 Prussian troops charge Danevirke 23.4.1848 contemporary wood engraving,

Historical scene, US-American history, 18th century, German-born soldiers in the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865, Battle of Wilson's Creek or Oak Hills on 10th August 1861 near Springfield, Missouri

The Irish anti-tithe agitation: The affray at Carrickshock, also known as the Carrickshock Massacre or Battle of Carrickshock. This ocurred on 14 December 1831 during the "Tithe Wars" when Catholic tenant farmers confronted the Irish Constabulary. The police contingent formed an escort to Edmund Butler who had been tasked with serving enforcement notices on the Catholic farmers who had been witholding the tithe payments to the local protestant priest. In the ensuing action, 11 constables were killed or mortally wounded, and 14 severely injured. Illustration from Cassell's History of England.

events War of the First Coalition 1792 - 1797 Battle of Wuerzburg 3.9.1796 Austrian lancers attacking French infantry wood engraving 19th century,

Persuaded by brother Leif Ericson to come to Greenland, Thorvald did and was later killed by natives.

Battle scene, Illustrierte Kriegschronik 1870 - 1871, Illustrated War Chronicle 1870 - 1871, German-French Campaign

África. Guerra del Transvaal. Una partida de tropa inglesa sorprendida por los boers. Grabado de 1900.

Conscripts of 1813 Combat Weissenfels, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885.

Battle at Etuz at the Oignon the 22nd of October, Franco-German War 1870/71, woodcut, France, Europe

Troops charging the crowds in Berlin, Revolution in Prussia, March 1848. Artist: Unknown

Rebel forces in Dresden overthrow the government and form a short-lived provisional government of their own. Date: May 1849

Illustrations showing western allies of White Russian forces under attack by advancing Red Army soldiers 1919

The charge of the 9th Lancers at a German battery near Mons. Date: I

War of the Second Coalition, Landing of the English in Holland on 27 August 1799, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

The Prussian 1st Division in battle at Pange on 14th August, Franco-German War 1870/71, woodcut, France, Europe

Peninsular War. Battle of Bailen. First victory of the Spanish army led by General Castanos (19 July 1808). ""The Surrender of Bailen"". The Generals Francisco Javier Castanos (1756-1851) and Pierre Antoine Dupont (1765-1838). Engraving after the painting by Jose Casado del Alisal. Cronica General de Espana, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias (General Chronicle of Spain, Illustrated and Descriptive History of its Provinces), Andalucia, 1869.

"Military Train Crossing the Sands to Elizabeth Castle,. Jersey, in the Time of the Civil War," by R. Beavis, from the late exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1865. 'The visitor to Jersey will be aware that the boldly and picturesquely situated fortress Elizabeth Castle (so named from its chief foundress, "Queen Bess") is only accessible on the land side for a short time at low water, and by a naturally-formed causeway of shingle and sand...Mr. Beavis, the painter of the picture we engrave - has depicted the "loyal" Jerseymen having armed, manned, and put in a s

Attack Upon a United States Mail Coach”, Book Illustration from Indian Horrors or Massacres of the Red Men”, by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1891

Battle against the Syrians, flee, Israel, victory, fight, chariot, horsemen, field captain Sobach, slain, die, city wall, defence defence tower, army, soldiers, warriors, battle, armour, weapons, spears, lances, swords, shields, death, doom, Bible, Old Testament, Second Book of Samuelis, chapter 10, verse 18, historical illustration around 1850, Middle East, Asia

Poles fight against the Russians at Zagosc

Patrice de Mac-Mahon on horseback in the Battle of Woerth, Franco-German War 1870/71, woodcut, Germany, Europe

Charlemage hunting, 8th-9th century (1882-1884).Artist: Serm

Battle of the Alma River, Crimean War, 20th September 1854; Black and White Illustration

Turkish troops. Battle of Turbigo (Italy) (3 june 1859). Battle of the Second Italian War of Independence. Franco-Piedmontese troops crossed the Ticino. Engraving by Dumont. El Album de las Familias, 1859.

1700s 1760s ENGRAVING DEPICTING TORTURE OF ENGLISH PRISONERS BY THE INDIANS DURING PONTIAC'S WAR

Hop-pickers Resting - drawn by Phiz, 1858. Seasonal farm workers. 'Here meet together the respectable poor and the disreputable poor, the honest labourer and the thief (doing honest work now), the decently dressed and the ragged and tattered, the clean and the dirty, the frank open-faced and the cut-throat looking; all working peacefully together...cheerful and happy, and the most depraved seemingly softened down by the beauties of nature which surround them...men, women, and children - who have come crowding along the quiet green lanes and busy highways from many parts of our good Queen's dom

'Surprise of the French by Beresford', c1880. Artist: Unknown.

Conquest of a French Mitrailleuse near Woerth, France, Franco-German campaign of 1870, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

Battle of Talivera, 27-28 July 1809. Bayonet charge by the 48th Foot, the Northamptonshire Regiment, awarded battle honours by Wellington. Engraving

Passage of the Ingour by Omar Pasha (1806-1871), 1854 (1857).Artist: T Sherratt

The capture of the Weeler settler family by Indians on the White River, Indian raid on a farm, 1880, America, Historic, digitally restored reproductio...

Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). Retreat of the Napoleonic armies of the Russian front in the winter of 1813. Engraving.

Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856. The Battle of Alma, 20 September 1854: The Highlanders attacking the Russian redoubt led by General Sir Colin Campbell (1792-1863) shown in tartan trews and wearing a Scottish bonnet urging on his kilted troops. The Allies (Britain, France and Turkey) defeated the Russians. Engraving c1860.

events War of the Sixth Coalition 1812 - 1814 Russian campaign 1812 the French crossing the river Neman 23.- 24.6.1812 Emperor Napoleon watching his troops wood engraving 19th century,

events War of the First Coalition 1792 - 1797 Battle of Arcole 15.- 17.11.1796 General Napoleon Bonaparte on the Bridge 15.11.1796 wood engraving 19th century,

German Peasants' War, 1524-1526, Victory of the peasants at Goyssen, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date unknown, Europe

Parisian market on Rambouillet, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885.

Illustration; The Battle of Blenheim; Charge of Marlborough's Horse from Cassell's History of England King's Edition Part 29

1700s ENGRAVING OF 1763 INDIAN ATTACK ON FORT PITT DURING PONTIAC'S WAR IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA

Battle of Lookout Mountain ca.1862 Thomas Nast (1840-1902 American)

Race riots against Jews took place in Southern Russia in the Summer of 1881. The authorites did little to prevent killings and the destruction of Jewish businesses. Many Jews emigrated to America via Liverpool as a result. This engraving shows a Jewish man being beaten by a mob and the Russian soldiers (at left) not intervening. Date: 1881

The dash with the colours, Battle of Isandlwana, Anglo-Zulu War, 22 January 1879, (1900). Artist: Unknown

The Zietenhusaren, Hussaren, Hussaren-Regiment von Zieten, called Zieten-Husaren, was a hussar regiment of the Prussian army, on the ride to the Danube, 1866, Germany, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

The Bivouac on the Plains, Utah Territory, circa 1858

Huningen surrender, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885.

1800s 1860s SEPTEMBER 1864 GENERAL PHIL SHERIDANS CAVALRY FISHER'S HILL VIRGINIA BEGAN SCORCHED EARTH BURNING SHENANDOAH VALLEY

In Search of Hidden Tatars in the Moscow-Kazan War in the 16th century, Digitally Restored Reproduction of an Original 19th-Century Original

Turkmen kidnappers attacking Persian residents near the border, historical illlustration, about 1886

Bearers being attacked by bees, Tanzania, travel and exploration by Henry Morton Stanley, expedition how I found Livingstone in Central Africa 1871-18

NOVILLADA EN PUEBLO PROXIMO A SEVILLA GRABADO S XIX. Author: GUSTAVE DORE.

Huningen surrender, vintage engraving. Huningen surrender, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656384

Third Carlist War (1872-1876). Battle of Trevino, July 7, 1875. The Alferez Valdes picks up the dead body of Enrique Torres Can_amas, Captain of the Lancers' Regiment of the King. Engraving by Rico. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1875.

Black and White Illustration; Rioting in Belfast following defeat of the Home Rule Bill, June 1886; Sectarian fighting between Catholics & Protestants

American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The Boston Massacre or Boston riot (1770). British redcoats killed five civilian men. Engraving.

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold August Graf von Werder, 1808-1887, a Prussian general in the Battle of Belfort, France, 1871, Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, 1870-1871, between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, Europe

Government soldiers taken prisoners by the Communards.

Fair, Kirchweih in Upper Bavaria, c. 1876, Germany, The obligatory brawl, historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century template, origi...

Historical scene, US-American history, 18th century, death in the colonial war between France and Great Britain by Sébastien Rasles also known as Sebastian Rale or Sebastian Rasle, 1657 -1724

Tomasso Aniello d'Amalfi, llamado "Masaniello" (1620-1647). Pescador y revolucionario napolitano contra el virrey de España, Duque de Arcos, a causa de la opresión fiscal. Traicionado, murió asesinado el 16 de julio de 1647. Grabado de 1966.

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.

Rushing With Horrid Yells They Seized The Hill, 1902. Artist: AP.

German Army, officers of the Schutztruppen in Africa fighting rebellious natives, Sudan, Germany, ca 1900, Historic, digitally restored reproduction f...

Max Mahon in the battle of Woerth, Illustrierte Kriegschronik 1870-1871 illustrated war history, German-French campaign, Weber

events War of the First Coalition 1792 - 1797 Battle of Valmy 20.9.1792 the horse of general Christophe Kellermann is killed by a shell wood engraving by Aubert 19th century,

Army of the Potomac - The Struggle for the Salient, near Spotsylvania, Virginia. May 12, 1864, during the USA Civil war

Russian Troops Crossing Danube River, "Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers", by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895

The escaped refugees from the Libey sic Prison. Civil War Photograph Collection , Illustration from: Harper's Weekly, 1864. Libby Prison, People, 1860-1870, Prisoners of war, Union, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Prisoners, Union.

The Eastern Question. Serbian-Turkish Wars (1876-1878). Serbia declared war on the Ottoman Empire on June 30, 1876. Turkish troops taking the city of Kujaschewatz on August 5, 1876. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, August 30, 1876.

''Dinizulu, Undabuko and Chingwao, the Exiled Zulu Chiefs, leaving the Goal at Eshowe, Zululand; En Route for St. Helena', 1890.

The Battle of Sedgemoor 6th July 1685; Black and White Illustration;

Police attempt to arrest a girl at Glenbeigh, Kerry, Ireland for assault on 'Emergency Men' during the evictions. These men were drafted in to guard property from which people had been recently evicted. Forcible evictions became widespread in mid to late 19th century rural Ireland and were the backdrop to the Rent and Land wars in there. Date: 12 February 1887

events Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871 Battle of Gravelotte 18.8.1870 Saxon artillery at Saint-Privat wood engraving 19th century,

Earthquake in Peru, destruction of the city of Arequipa in 1868, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date unknown

Siege of Delhi, Indian Mutiny, September 1857. Artist: Unknown

Bible. Old Testament. Judas Maccabeus before the army of Nicamor. Macc II, 15. Drawing by Dore. Engraving by Bapbant, 19th century.

'Repulse of a sortie from Delhi', 1857, (c1860). Artist: Unknown

Landing of Julius Caesar in Britain

Boers charging Major Gough's force at Blood River. 2nd Boer War 1899-1902.

Soldiers from the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment fighting at the Battle of Magenta, 4 June 1859 during the Second Italian War of Independence. From L'Univers Illustre, published Paris, 1859

Skiopticone image with motifs of Boer War.

ANDREW JACKSON ON HORSEBACK FRONT LINES OF BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS DECEMBER 1814 JANUARY 1815 DURING WAR OF 1812

THE BRIGHTON REVIEW

Collecting the remains of Union soldiers for reinterment in national cemeteries / photographed by A. Gardner, Washington, D.C. ; S. Fox.. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1866 Nov. 24, p. 740, bottom illustration. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Casualties, Union.

Engraving depicting the use of a polemoscope, a kind of periscope, to direct artillery fire. Dated 19th Century

Englishmen fetching food from French sutlers, 1855, Crimean War, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century model

Theater of war with dead, abandoned French battery on the Mount Abron, Franco-German War 1870/71, woodcut, France, Europe

THE SIEGE OF WATERFORD

Crimean War, Destruction of the military battery Ak-Burun, White Cape, Kerch Fortress, Fort Totleben, Russia / Krimkrieg, Zerstörung der Militärbatterie Ak-Burun, Weißes Kap, Festung Kertsch, Fort Totleben, Russland, historisch, C:CC5historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

Prussian twenty-four-pound battery No. 2 on Gammelmark, Silesia, woodcut from 1864

'Sergeant Tanviray at Loigny', 1895.Artist: Dormoy

Spain (1713). War of the Spanish Succession. Siege of Barcelona. Meeting in one of the openings of the city walls between the Lieutenant General D'Asfeld and the General Bellver i Balaguer, who refuses to capitulate (5th September 1714). Etching.

Battle, fight at Noisseville on August 31st, Franco-German War 1870/71, woodcut, France, Europe

Fishing for mullet on the beach of Long-Island United States, vintage engraving. Fishing for mullet on the beach of Long-Island United States, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, 1880-81. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10657121

The New Uniforms of the Mobile National Guard and Army, 1869, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century pattern, Europe

Japanese Manoeuvres. Packing the horses with large cauldrons for cooking rice in a catering convoy, 1887, Japan, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century original, Asia

Spain. Third Carlist War (1872-1876). Vitoria. Alava. The General Quesada honors three Barbastro's hunter soldiers by their merit made in the Action of Villareal. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustracio_n Espan_ola y Americana, 1875.

The First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861), called the Battle of First Manassas by Confederate forces, was the first major battle of the American Civil War. It was a Confederate victory. After this Union defeat, Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell, the commander of the Union Army of Northeastern Virginia, was relieved and replaced by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, who set about reorganizing and training what would become the Army of the Potomac.

Florian Geye, Florian Vulture von Giebelstadt, born around 1490 in Giebelstadt, 10 June 1525, a Franconian imperial knight, troop leader in the service of Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach and diplomat. He took over the leadership of the Black Troop in the Peasants' War of 1525, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date not known

Frederick II the Great, Frederick the Great, 1712-1786, was King of Prussia, here with a pandur, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th...

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