Historic Battles and Military Engagements

Illustrations depicting significant historic battles, including skirmishes from the Civil War and various European conflicts, showcasing soldiers in combat and military maneuvers.

In the wake of the Revolution, brigands - 'chauffeurs' and 'garrotteurs' - terrorise farmers and travelers in the countryside : the government deploys troops against them. Date: circa 1798

War of the Pyrenees (7 March 1793 to 22 July 1795). "Battle of Trouillas" (22 September 1793. The Spanish troops of King Charles IV, under the command of General Antonio Ricardos (1727-1794), defeated the French forces led by General Luc Dagobert (1736-1794). Victory of General Ricardos at Trouillas. Illustration by Serra Pausas. "Glorias Españolas" (Glories of Spain). Volume IV. Published in Barcelona, 1890. Author: Joan Serra Pausas (active 1861-1902). Spanish artist.

Die Schlacht am Abend des 30. August bei Beaumont, Frankreich, im Deutsch-Französischen Krieg von 1870-1871, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduk...

Grant's Movements South of the James - Battle of Poplar Spring Church - Gallant Charge of a part of the Fifth Corps on the Confederate Fort, September 30th 1864 - USA Civil War

Angriff der preußischen Kavallerie auf die französische Infanterie in der Schlacht bei Saint Quentin am 19. Januar im Deutsch-Französischen Krieg von ...

events Second War of Schleswig 1864 Battle of Als 29.6.1864 Prussian troops crossing the Alssund wood engraving after drawing by Georg Bleibtreu (1828 - 1892) Danish Prussian War Germany Denmark Prussia battle soldiers landing warfare,

Bombardment of Sebastopol - General Sir De Lacy Evans and staff, 1854. Crimean War: mounted British officers. 'The enemy's magazine in the round tower battery exploded again for the third time. During the previous night a new battery had been erected by the Russians near the ruins of Inkerman. A redoubt was commenced on the right of Sir De Lacy Evans's position to silence it. On the 22nd this was finished, and opening with two 18-pounders, silenced the enemy after he had fired four rounds. In the night a new battery for Lancaster's guns was raised to the right of Gordon's left attack, and abou

American Civil War: Confederate (southern) General Hood wounded at the battle of Chicamauga, 1863. Wood engraving published London, September 1863.

THE ASHANTEE WAR

Charge of heavy cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War, 1854 (1857).Artist: W Hulland

In the wake of the Revolution, brigands - 'chauffeurs' and 'garrotteurs' - terrorise farmers and travelers in the countryside : the government deploys troops against them. Date: circa 1798

Federal Cavalry covering the escape of Federal Prisoners from Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia. USA Civil War

Stanley comes into conflict with Mazamboni's people on the Emin Pasha relief expedition in central Africa. Natives, armed with bows, arrows and spears, are fired on at close range with rifles by Stanley's men. This is a view of the fight from Nzera Kum Hill. Date: 1887

The Prince Imperial's body, covered in the British flag being carried on a gun carriage for its journey to Pietermaritzburg. The route is lined with British soldiers and a crowd of sympathisers looks on. The death of the Prince Imperial was treated with great sentimentality by the British press at the time. Date: 1879

Confederate Cavalry attacking a Federal Supply Train near Jasper, Tennessee. USA Civil War

Fight Rocquencourt, vintage engraving. Fight Rocquencourt, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656391

US Civil War, Battle of Shiloh, also called the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, April 6-7, 1862. On the first day of the battle, Union forces resisted being driven away from the Tennessee River into the inland swamps. This scene is from a 15 minute fight, in which the Union battery lost 48 horses, with 30 men were killed or wounded (BSLOC_2018_7_37)

Surrender of the Neapolitan troops at Soveria, Calabria - from a sketch by our special artist in Italy, Frank Vizetelly, 1860. 'Soveria was one of those mountain fastnesses which yielded to Garibaldi at once without a struggle. The correspondent of the Daily News...writes: "...I never witnessed more distressing scenes; peasants and soldiers getting hold of the arms given up by the Neapolitans...a terrific noise prevailing in that pandemonium of human beings...all the Neapolitan officers with whom I spoke told me they were glad that the capitulation, though hard and humiliating, had been

Gallant attack by 150 of the Pennsylvania Bucktails, led by Colonel Kane, upon a portion of General Stonewall Jackson's Confederate Army, strongly posted in the woods, near Harrisonburg, Friday, June 6th, 1862. USA Civil War

Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, The blowing up of the Valenza Bridge on 7 May 1859 by the Austrians, Second Italian War of Independence, around 1859, Valenza, Piedmont, Italy, Europe

Funeral, on Sunday last, of Sergeant Dransfield, R.E., instructor to the 1st Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteers, 1865. '...a few days ago, in Victoria Park in East London,...Sergeant Dransfield, of the Royal Engineers, while performing his duties as instructor to the 1st Tower Hamlets Volunteer Engineers, was killed by the premature explosion of a mine...His funeral, last Sunday, in the Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Bow, was attended with military honours...Every member of the corps wore a band of crape on the left arm...The officers wore a black sash, a band, with a bow of crape, round the busby,

The Battle of White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862, from The New York Times

Gefangennahme eines französischen Spions bei Metz am 23. August 1870, Frankreich, Deutsch-Französischer Krieg 1870-1871, Historisch, digital restaurie...

Italia. Enfrentamiento entre zuavos pontificios y garibaldinos en la batalla de Meldana, cerca de Roma. Grabado de 1867.

The Battle of Lodi, Battle of Lodi Bridge, took place on 10 May 1796 near the town of Lodi, Italy, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century o...

Illustration showing Marshal Francois Bazaine's Army marching out as prisoners of war at the surrender of Metz during the Franco-Prussian War. After a siege of 70 days Bazaine's French forces surrendered to the Prussian Army. It was felt that Bazaine had not resisted enough during the siege and was later imprisoned for treason. Date: 1870

1860s APRIL 1862 AMERICAN CIVIL WAR THE BATTLE AT PITTSBURG LANDING SHILOH TENNESSEE USA

Battle of Dresden, Death of Moreau, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885.

THE CRIMEAN WAR

Battle of Montmirail, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885.

The French army arising out of the island of Lobau, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885.

A group of Texas Rangers charge during a skirmish with Native Americans. After a 19th century illustration by Henry Walker Herrick.

Going into Camp at Stafford's Store, Virginia - Third Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps, Carrying off rails and gathering persimmons. USA Civil War

Defending a Laager during the Matabele Wars. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal War, Volume 1 by Louis Creswicke, published 1900.

Battle of Gettysburg Pennsylvania 1863.Artist J.R. Chapin

SURRENDER OF THE RUSSIAN GENERAL AT KINBURN

España. Catalunya. Guerra de la independencia. Defensa de Lleida y entrada de los franceses el 13 de mayo de 1810. Grabado de 1875.

Assault on Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbour, on the night of July 18th 1863, showing the rush of the garrison to the parapet. Negro troops of the 54th Massachusetts under Colonel Robert Shaw assaulted rebels at Fort Wagner, resulted in the death of half of his 600 men. Date: 1863

Vintage Photograph. The War in America: Bringing in the Wounded After the Skirmish at Lewinsville, Virginia - 1861 American History

Napoleon III meets emperor Franz Josef at Villafranca and they agree an armistice. Date: 11 July 1859

The escort of honor on horseback escorts the Spanish ambassador to the city of Tanger, Morocco, North Africa. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

Soldiers crossing the Abyuka, Caucasus, The Caucasian War of 1817 to 1864 was an invasion of the Caucasus by the Russian Empire, which led to the anne...

Napoleonic Wars. Marshal Edouard Mortier (1768-1835) at the Battle of Durenstein (11 November 1805), during the War of the Third Coalition. Drawing by A. Sandoz. Engraving by John Outhwaite. ""Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire"" (History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon), by A. Thiers. Volume VI. Published in Paris, 1847.

THE REBELLION IN SUDAN, 1883: ARRIVAL OF THE SUDAN FIELD FORCE AT BERBER, ON THE NILE, HICKS PASHA, CHIEF OF THE FORCE, AND HIS STAFF ON THE WAY TO THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE

French Revolutionary Wars. Second Coalition (1709-1802). "Battle of Zurich". French troops under the command of General André Masséna (1758-1817) fought against the Austrian troops of Archduke Charles in a first battle between 4 and 6 June 1799, ceding the city of Zurich to the Austrians. In a second battle near Zurich on 25-26 September 1799, Masséna's army defeated a Russian-Austrian combined force under General Aleksandr Kórsakov (1753-1840). Russia left the Second Coalition. Drawing by Philippoteaux. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 2nd part, 1879.

The camp at Chobham showing the arrival of Queen Victoria at Magnet Hill Date: 1853

Omar Pasha (born Michael Latas, 1806-1871) Croatian-born Ottoman general. Commanded the Turkish forces during Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856. Omar Pasha leading his Turkish troops across the river Ingour in a successful attack on the Russians. Engraving.

The 9th New York (Hawkins Zouaves)and the 21st Massachusetts taking the Confederate fieldwork on Roanoke island at the point of the bayonet, during General Burnside's expedition to seize the area. Date: 1862

Battle of Toulouse, vintage engraving. Battle of Toulouse, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656454

Merino, an anarchist priest (an interesting combination !) and would-be assassin of queen Isabela, is executed by garrotte at the puerta de Toledo, Madrid. Date: 1852

Union cavalry covering the escape of prisoners from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia

Robert O'Hara Burke and W. J. Wills were the first men to cross Australia from south to north. Leaving Melbourne. Date: 20 August 1860

Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814). Battle of Salamanca (22 July 1812). Combat that took place in the town of Arapiles, south of Salamanca, in which they faced the allied armies of Spain, England and Portugal, under the command of General Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), against the Napoleonic troops led by Marshal Marmont, which were defeated. This French defeat dealt a severe blow to Napoleon's plans to invade Portugal, as it prevented the installation of the bases and arsenals that were necessary to carry out the invasion. Illustration by Serra Pausas. "Glorias Españolas" (Glories of Spain). Volume IV. Published in Barcelona, 1890. Author: Joan Serra Pausas (active 1861-1902). Spanish artist.

THE PRINCE OF WALES INSPECTING THE 11TH HUSSARS AT COLCHESTER, UK, 1866

Spain, Madrid. Defence of Monteleón artillery park during the Dos de Mayo Uprising, 1808. Illustration by Miranda. Engraving by Rico. Historia General de España by Father Mariana. Madrid, 1853. Author: Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). Spanish painter and engraver. Miranda. Spanish artist.

Gustave Doré (1832-1883). "Italian campaign. Load of the first regiment of African hunters in Solferino", 1859. Print. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. French army, attack, injure, campaign, battlefield, load, African hunter, print, war Italy, death, plain, first regiment, second empire, soldier

FIRING THE TOWER GUNS FOR THE GREAT VICTORY IN THE CRIMEA, 1854

Illustration depicting the 1836 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase, the first of three unofficial annual precursors of a steeplechase which later became known as the Grand National. Dated 19th century

The Bombardment of Brussels, 1695, by the troops of Louis XIV during the Nine Years' War. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c.1890.

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.

Zouaves assemble at Versailles before setting out for Italy. Date: early 1859

Engraving depicting the end of the Battle of Bouvines, a medieval battle which ended the 1202-1214 Anglo-French War. Dated 13th Century

King William and Crown Prince Frederick William on the evening after the Battle of Koeniggraetz, also known as the Battle of Sadowa, the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War, in Bohemia on 3 July 1866, digital improved reproduction of an original from 1880

Lord Roberts's column crossing the Sand River Drift during the second Boer War. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke, published 1900.

The fight at Oeversee , on February , War of Austria and Prussia against Denmark, Heinrich Gerhart, publisher

The war in Virginia - the 18th Army Corps storming a fort on the right of the Rebel line before Petersburg, June 15 / sketched by our special artist, E. Forbes. | Library of Congress

SCOTLAND, 1871

The death of Colonel Rawle at the Battle of Trenton, 1776. Artist: Unknown

Battle of Gettysburg - July 1863 - USA Civil War

GREAT FIRE AT MONTREAL, SKETCHED FROM THE NORTH CORNER OF THE CHAMP DE MARS, 1852

The insurgents of the rising of 15 May are transported from Vincennes to Bourges with a formidable military escort in case of a rescue attempt.

An engraving depicting diggers on their way to the gold fields, Bathurst District, Australia. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicts threshing with horses in Spain. Threshing is a method used to separate grain from (corn or other crops), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism. Dated 19th Century

German artillery in the Battle of Dijon, October 1870, Illustrierte Kriegschronik 1870 - 1871, Illustrated War Chronicle 1870 - 1871, German-French Campaign

Scenes in Memphis, Tennessee, during the riot - Shooting down African Americans on the morning of May 2, 1866

Retreat of the French Cavalry after the Battle of Orleans, France, Franco-German Campaign 1870-1871, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century master, exact original date not known, Europe

Charge on Fort Donelson Tennessee 1862

Gettysburg. Repulse of Longstreet's assault - July 3, 1863 during USA Civil War

King William and Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm in the evening after the Battle of Koeniggraetz, also known as the Battle of Sadowa, on 3 July 1866, woodcut, Bohemia

Cuban Independence War, Spanish-American War. Battalion Alfonso XIII in the defense of the coast of Pinar del Rio. Engraving.

Once More The Guards Returned, And With Irresistible Energy Drove Them Out, 1902. Artist: Unknown.

German Peasants' War, 1524-1526, burning of Schladming/German Peasants' War, burning of Schladming, historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original model from the 19th century, exact original date unknown, subsequently colored

The burial of victimes of the french revolution in a mass grave 1789 French revolution

In the Phillipines - A Bayonet Rush of United States Troops - 1899

Death of Isaac Davis, 1775 (c1880). Artist: Unknown

The war in Virginia Lieutenant General Grant in a council of war at Massaponax Church, circa 1864. USA Civil War

A convoy of insurgents under the escort of Austrian troops. unknown

As the movement for Polish independence escalates, insurgents attack a Russian convoy.

Military review of the Russian Army 1882 near Saint Petersburg, Russia, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

The Wuerttemberg artillery on the heights of Villiers in the fight on 2 December, Franco-German War 1870/71, woodcut, France, Europe

Engraving showing the 'swearing in' of an Indian recruit to the British Army, on a parade ground in the sub-continent, 1878. Date: 22 June 1878

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). Distribution of slivovitz (plum spirit) to Romanian infantry hunters. Engraving by Charles Baude. "La Guerra de Oriente" (The Russo-Turkish War). Volume I. 1877. Author: Charles Baude (1853-1935). French engraver.

The 1906 caption reads: COUNT HENRI RALLYING THE PEASANTS OF THE VENDEE.During the Resolution of 1789 the peasants of La Vendee in northwestern France remained loyal to their King, and refused to join the rebels and assist in the formation of the Republic. Henri, the Count of Larochejaquelin, was the leader who first organized them, and who led them in several victorious battles against the invaders. You see him calling his men to resist a sudden attack. His short speech is famous: "if I retreat, kill me; if I advance, follow me; if I fall, avenge me. Henri du Vergier, comte de la Rochejaqu

The First Maine Cavalry Skirmishing 1845-91 Alfred Rudolf Waud American, born England. The First Maine Cavalry Skirmishing 349301

events Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 Prussian field post office in France 1870 contemporary wood engraving,

Sudáfrica. Tropas inglesas abandonando el campo de batalla de Ghinghilovo. Grabado de 1879.

The Ball Players by Carle Vernet, vintage engraving. The Ball Players by Carle Vernet, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1867. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 1042870408st

Italian soldiers during a battle in the Italian uprising of 1860

Italia. Batalla de Montebello el 20 de mayo de 1859 durante la Segunda Guerra de la independencia italiana; la infantería francesa y la caballería sardo-piamontesa derrotaron las tropas austríacas tras su invasión del Piamonte. Grabado de época.

Convoy with silver ingots from the silver mines on the way to Mexico City, 1869, Mexico, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Central America

Escape of the Missionaries during the Dakota War of 1862

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