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Historic Battles and Warfare

Engravings depict various battles and skirmishes from different historical periods, showcasing knights, soldiers in conflict, and dramatic action scenes.

Napoleon III surveys the battlefield of Palestro, where French troops helped the Piedmontese to defeat the Austrians. Date: May 1859
Napoleon III surveys the battlefield of Palestro, where French troops helped the Piedmontese to defeat the Austrians. Date: May 1859
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Illustration depicting the death of Tewodros II. Tewodros II (1818-1868) Emperor of Ethiopia. Dated 19th century
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The killing of Mr. Charles Huder. Move and we will kill you too. From Travel Diaries, vintage engraving, 1884-85.
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Coal merchant from Istria gets caught in a storm, illustration, woodcut from 1880, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century origina...
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A group of men by a beer barrel. A clip from a Russian magazine unknown
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Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1900), 1880. Artist: Unknown
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Lady Redcliffe visiting wounded in the Hospital at Scutari
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Diligence in Algeria. They pass without any hostile demonstration, vintage engraving. Diligence in Algeria. They pass without any hostile demonstration, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, 1880-81. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10657265
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Roman Army. Engraving. 19th century.
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Soldiers in a position in front of Metz during a break in the fighting playing cards, German-French War, 1872, France, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe
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The siege and relief of Gibraltar, 1782
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The English expedition to free General Gordon, who was trapped in Khartoum, disembarking camels in Dongola, today Sudan, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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geography/travel France revolution 1789 - 1799 festivity of the Conferation Champ de Mars Paris 17.7.1790 History painting engraving 19th century ceremony celebration 18th century French,
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Crew of the frigate Flore pulling down Vahiu statues to transport them to France, Easter island, Chile, illustration by Janet Lange and Smeeton from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1539, Volume LX, August 24, 1872.
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The lighting of the Malvern Monster Beacon, 1856. Illustration of a sketch by Cuthbert Bede. '...it was intended to have been a simple bonfire to commemorate the lighting of Malvern with gas...But the project increased in importance as it became more widely known...The Beacon...towered up like a huge Druid idol. Twelve iron-banded poplar trees...that narrowed to its summit kept together the matériel - 450 faggots, 5 cords of wood, 12 tar-barrels, 2 tons of coals, 3 or 4 loads of hop poles, 2 loads of furze, 2 barrels of tar, and 1 of naphtha...The effect of the torchlight procession as
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Attack on Fort Donelson in Tennessee 1862, USA, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century, Record date not stated..
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Meeting of Barbarossa with his son Frederick after the Battle of Iconium, Frederick I, called Barbarossa, c. 1122 - 1190, historical engraving from 1883, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.
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Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the Anglo-America explorer and journalist, meeting with some forest pygmies, during one of his expeditions to Central Africa. This image shows the pygmies eating snake round a large cooking pot. In October 1869, Stanley was sent by James Gordon Bennett (the owner of the New York Herald) to find Dr. David Livingstone, who had been exploring central Africa for several years without passing any communication to Europe. In 1871 Stanley fo
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Establishment of Mr. Gonsalvez, Central Africa. Journey across Africa, from Zanzibar to Benguela by Verney Lovett Cameron
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The death of General Wolfe lying mortally wounded, surrounded by soldiers and a Native, during the siege of Quebec in 1759
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In this early 1900s illustration, Spanish folk hero El Cid, nobleman in court of Castile, is shown leading troops into battle.
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military Austria infantry Regiment ""Pfalz Neuburg Teutschmeister"" musketeer and officer circa 1710 drawing 19th century,
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Battle of Plassey - The Nawab's Artillery on its Movable Platform. by R Caton Woodville. The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over a much larger force of the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757, under the leadership of Robert Clive. The battle helped the Company seize control of Bengal. Richard Caton Woodville Jr.(1825-1855) was an English artist and illustrator, who is best known for being one of the most prolific and effective painters of battle scenes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Denmark, Posttwag
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The Battle of Ascalon took place on 12 August 1099 shortly after the capture of Jerusalem and is often considered the final action of the First Crusade, Crusades were strategically, religiously and economically motivated wars sanctioned by the Latin Church between 1095-99 and the 13th century, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century master, exact original date not known
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Engraving depicting New Guinea villagers with European visitors. Dated 19th Century
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The pirates' ruse luring a merchantman in the olden days - Print demonstrating Pirates getting a merchant vessel in close
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Crusader army is ambushed by Turks, Crusades were strategically, religiously and economically motivated wars sanctioned by the Latin Church between 10...
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Heimkehr der Bürger von Bernau nach dem Sieg über die Hussiten im Jahre 1432, Bernau bei Berlin, Deutschland / Homecoming of the citizens of Bernau after the victory over the Hussites in 1432, Bernau bei Berlin, Germany, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt,.
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'The Game of Shinty', 18th or 19th century. Artist: Unknown
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Defence of the fort at Futtegurh, Indian Mutiny, 1857-1859 (c1895). Artist: Unknown
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''The Strike of the Sheep Shearers in Australia; A Striker's idea of Argument: Firing the Bush', 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891.
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Historic drawing, allegory on the English Civil War, royalist symbolic image of the abolishment of the monarchy, 17th century
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The Greco-Turkish War of 1897, also called the Thirty Days' War and known in Greece as the Black '97, or the Unfortunate War, was a war fought between the Kingdom of Greece and Ottoman Empire
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War dance of the Bari-Neger of Mozambique : musicians work up the warriors into a frenzy of blood-lust. Date: 1890S
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The Maubonne Corporal painting by Andre Reverchon, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1878.
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CREVAUX, Jules Nicholas (Lorquin, 1847-El Chaco, 1882). French doctor and explorer. Killing members of the Crevaux's expedition. Engraving. Colored.
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Standards of Roman legions (top) and Weapons and armour used by Roman soldiers. From Ancell's Monthly Military Companion, 1801. Copperplate engraving
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Debris from the Grandee Armee in Koenigsberg, vintage engraving. Debris from the Grandee Armee in Koenigsberg, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656334
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This illustration of Jacques Cartier and Indians dates to 1917. In 1534,the French explorer Jacques Cartier arrivedin what is now Quebec. He meta local Native tribe, and after spending a summer with them, realized he hadto prove to the King of France that he had made contact. He then kidnappedthe two teenaged sons of the Chief to take them back to France Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France and was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River. Cartier is considered a Cana
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The Triumph of Death, by Bruegel Pieter the Elder, 16th Century, 1562, oil on board, cm 117 x 162
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Occupation of Rome by the French army, vintage engraving.
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The Surrender of Khiva to the Russian Trupoen on 29 May 1873, Uzbekistan, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Asia
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Single Action of in las Palmas, (1875), 1920s. Artist: Unknown
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The Surrender of Khiva to the Russian Trupoen on 29 May 1873, Uzbekistan, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Asia
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'Punishment of Negroes', Santo Domingo, 1873. Artist: Unknown
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Louis Botha receiving intelligence from a native spy, 2nd Boer War, c1900. Artist: Unknown
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The Death of General Wolfe in the Battle of Quebec 1759, General James Wolfe, 1727-1759, British General, USA, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, North America
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Washington and Fairfax at an Indian war dance 1748. George Washington 1732, 1799 First President of the United States. Thomas Fairfax, 1692, 1781, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated