Historic Battles Depictions

Artistic representations of famous historical battles with dramatic scenes of conflict, showcasing historical military uniforms and tactics.

BATTLE OF WATERLOO 1815 - the action around Quatre Bras

The Battle of Gettysburg - Union troops advancing from the right during fighting at the battle of Gettysburg, July 1863

Battle of Princeton, New Jersey USA 1775, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century, Record date not stated..

Paris Commune 26 March-28 May 1871. The Bloody Week: Burning and destruction of the Hotel de Ville by the Commune. In foreground the Versailles, Government forces, in front of a barricade. Coloured woodcut.

Kettle Hill, Santiago, Cuba, July 1, 1898With the declaration of war with Spain in April 1898, 164,932 National Guardsmen entered Federal service. The 1st New Mexico Cavalry entered Federal service as the 2nd Squadron, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, better known as the "Rough Riders." Theodore Roosevelt conceived the idea of raising a cavalry regiment recruited from businessmen, cowboys and outdoorsmen. Roosevelt, a former New York National Guardsman, helped to organize the regiment and was appointed its lieutenant colonel. After training in Texas and Florida, the Rough Riders landed in Cuba, without their horses, on June 22, 1898. It was during the Battle of San Juan Hill, on July 1, that the Rough Riders, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt, made their mark in American military history. Ordered to seize Kettle Hill in support of the main attack, the Rough Riders fought their way to the top despite heavy enemy fire. New Mexico's E and G Troops were among the first

Indian (Sepoy) Mutiny 1857-1859: Robert Cornelis Napier (1810-90) British military commander, making triumphant entry into Delhi. Cover of sheet music of The Battle March of Delhi. Tinted lithograph c1860

A watercolor by Rudolf von Alt depicting the Battle of Aspern and Napoleon's withdrawal to Lobau, showing troops, terrain, and battlefield structures.

Cisalpine Republic (1792-18029. Napoleon inspects the militia of the Cisalpine Republic. (June 1797). Lithography. R. Rocosi, 1845.

Aftermath of a battle with wounded soldiers. Watercolour after Sir J. Gilbert ().

The Battle of Colenso, Natal, South Africa during the Second Boear War. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment leading the central attack. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke, published 1900

Sheridan's final charge at Winchester in 1864 , Soldiers, Campaigns & battles, Cavalry, Horses, Horseback riding, Cannons, Winchester, 3rd Battle of, Winchester, Va., 1864, Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888. Louis Prang & Company Collection

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.

Guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). Batalla del Bruch en 1808. Grabado de 1895.

China Boxer Rebellion 1900 Chinese people escaping after battle by Hoku So coloured Japanese illustration,

Germany, Prussia, 1740-1745 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Germany

Attack by the French at Solferino, Lombardy, 1859, Second War of Independence, lithograph by Carlo Perrin from the drawing by Carlo Bossoli (1815-1884), 22x15 cm, from Album Storico-Artistico della Guerra d'Italia (Historic-Artistic Album of the Italian War), Turin.

Pickett's Charge at the Bloody Angle in Gettysburg, USA Civil War

The battle of Taborbrucke at Leopoldstadt, Austria, October 1848

Battle of I Worl War by unknown painter, Russia, St Petersburg, State Central Artillery Museum, 89x125

The Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, Germany, 18 October 1813 (1900). Artist: Unknown

Demonstration in Berlin at the departure of troops to south-west Africa in April 1904. Germany, 20th century.

Boer War: 180 English soldiers surrendering to Boer forces at Doornbosch, Transvaal. From 'Le Petit Journal' Paris 8 December 1901.

War of 1870. / Battle of Beaumont. / 29 August 1870. (IT)

Battle of Buena Vista, Fought February 23, 1847 - in which the American Army under General Taylor were Completely Victorious, Lithograph, Nathaniel Currier, 1847

American Civil War 1861-1865: Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, 11-15 December 1862. Confederate General Robert E Lee with his staff officers viewing progress of the battle. Lee defeated Union forces under General Burnside. Print c1900.

unknown artist, The Battle of Newmark in Silesia;... Hand-colored engraving.

The Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 7-9, 1862

Roubaud, Franz (1856-1928) State Borodino War and History Museum, Moscow 1893 Oil on canvas Realism Germany History

The French General Joseph-Simon Gallieni, 1916, by Ferdinand Roybet (1840-1920). World War I, France, 20th century.

With the Die Hards at Neuve Chapelle. The storming of a blockhouse by the 2nd Middlesex. Drawn by D. Macpherson. From The Great World War A History Volume III, published 1916.

The Battle of Custoza, 1880, by Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908), oil on canvas, 297x546 cm.

Spanish patriots attacking the French banditti, loyal Britons lending a lift, 1808, England, by James Gillray.

Place de la Concorde 24 February 1848--Courageous Conduct of a Young Girl, Currier and Ives, color lithograph, (1857-1907), Washington, D.C., Library of Congress

Turkish wars battle at a sieged city in Croatia miniature watercolour on paper circa 1750 Miniatures Cabinet residence Munich,

Austrian forces, opposing the unification of Italy, are defeated in a decisive battle at Solferino, near Verona, Italy, by French and Piedmontese forces.

Mob frenzy' Spanish Civil war, anti-republican propaganda illustration by C. Sáenz de Tejada

The Taking of Lvov, Anonymous

Germany. Attack against the emperor William II. Picture of 'Le Petit Journal' (24th March 1901). Engraving.

The Saxon artillery at Saint Privat in the Battle of Gravelotte, France on 18 August in the German-French War 1870/1871, France, The Battle of Gravelotte, or GravelotteSt. Privat, was the largest battle during the Franco-Prussian War / Die sächsische Artillerie bei Saint Privat in der Schlacht von Gravelotte, Frankreich am 18. August im Deutsch-Französischen Krieg 1870/1871, Frankreich, Die Schlacht von Gravelotte, oder GravelotteSt. Privat, war die größte Schlacht im Deutsch-Französischen Krieg, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt, Kolorierung, koloriert, handkoloriert, Hand-colouring, hand coloured, colored.

France, 1724-1740. Louis XV. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

Death of General Isaac Stevens during the attack on Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 1862. From a painting by Alonzo Chappel, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century, Record date not stated..

Forces of Muhammed IX, Nasrid Sultan of Granada, at the Battle of Higueruela 1431, as depicted in a series of fresco paintings by Fabrizio Castello, Orazio Cambiaso and Lazzaro Tavarone in the Gallery of Battles at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain.

Guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). Catalunya. El general francés Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766-1815) en retirada ordena la quema de carros de heridos en Calella. Grabado de 1861. Author: Eusebi Planas Franquesa.

General Rayevski leading his men into combat at the battle of Saltanovka, also known as the Battle of Mogilev. 23 July 1812. during the early stages of the 1812 French invasion of Russia.

US Civil War, Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, Feb. 14-16, 1862. The Union flag waves over Fort Donaldson after 2nd and 4th Iowa, and 11th and 25th Indiana regiments, captured a Confederate battery on the Feb. 15th. Hand colored wood engraving after a drawing by Thomas Nast (BSLOC_2018_7_27)

Russia, 1806 part 2. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Russia

NEWS. PL. 6. / Battle of Vissembourg. (IT)

CARLOS IV. REY DE ESPAÑA.1748 - 1819. " TOMA DE FUIGUERAS " POR LAS TROPAS FRANCESAS EL 17 - 11 - 1794. GRABADO. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL. MADRID.

British imperialism. Sudan. Africa. English army attacking. Colored engraving, 1898.

Battle of Belmont in the Boer War

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Column of Japanese soldiers marching under the cold and tiredness of fighting. Engraving. Colored.

Europe, Stuttgart, Schulz, Friedrich Gustav, Manoeuvre of a Dutchman, Infantry Regiments on the Ice, near Dortrecht, Exercise of a Dutch regiment on the ice near Dordrecht, verso - stamped, A regiment of Dutch infantry skating on the ice. Around the soldiers people playing on the ice. In the background the city of Dordrecht. Below the image the title in five languages. Numbered lower right: No. 53., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 335 mm, width 425 mm, Publication (Event), Publication, German, publisher, 1820 - 1865, paper, papier, lithografie (technique), kleuren, print maker, prentmaker

Custer's Last Stand Edgar Samuel Paxson (1852-1919 American)

Fight for the Ebelsberg bridge on May , Trentsensky publisher, publishing house

La batalla de Tetuán. Museum: MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO BARCELONA ESPAÑA. Author: MARIA FORTUNY.

'Attack by Langeron at Schönefeld in October 1813'. late 1810s. Dimensions: 16,4x23 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Friedrich-Anton-Ulrich-Carl-Leopold Kleist ( ).

The Zulu War - Sir Garnet Wolseley presenting the Victoria Cross to Major Chard, Royal Engineers, at Inkwenke Camp, 1879. The Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879), also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead, 24th Regiment of Foot began when a large contingent of Zulu warriors broke off from their main force during the final hour of the British defeat at the day-long Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, diverting 6 miles (9.7 km) to attack Rorke's Drift later that day and continuing into the following day

Mexican American War. Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23-24, 1847. 'Mississippi Rifles' by Ken Riley. Commanded by Colonel Jefferson Davis, US forces attack Mexican cavalry and infantry advancing on the Americans. At both the battle at Monterey and Buena Vista, the effective field officers of the outnumbered US Army made good use of their inexperienced volunteers (BSLOC_2019_8_23)

Engraving depicting the Boston Massacre, issued in 1881. The event, which occurred in 1770, involved British soldiers and took place in Boston, Massachusetts during the colonial period (ca. 1600-1775)

San Isidro, Luzon, Philippine Islands, May 6, 1899One month after the Spanish-American War began, an expeditionary force sailed from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands. Because most of the Regular Army was in Cuba and Puerto Rico, three-quarters of the first 10,000 U.S. Army troops to arrive in the Philippines were National Guardsmen, most of them from the West and Midwest. The Spanish surrendered quickly, but the Guardsmen soon had another enemy; Filipinos fighting for their independence. These Filipino insurgents attacked the American lines around Manila in February 1899, beginning a ten-year guerrilla war.In the spring of 1899 the 1st North Dakota Infantry was part of an expedition to clean out Insurgent strongholds north of Manila. When a civilian named Henry Young organized an elite scouting and reconnaissance force, 16 North Dakotans were selected for this detail, which also included four men from the 2d Oregon. Of Young and his 25 Scouts one historian wrote "Alway

España. Guerra de África (1860). El general Juan Prim Prats (1814-1870) arengando a los voluntarios catalanes.

The Colonel of France, Duke of Aumale and his army during the colonial wars. Algeria, 19th century.

First Barbary War between the US and Tripoli, May 1801-June 1805. Stephen Decatur's sailors fight corsairs on deck of an Tripolitan gunboat, August 3, 1804. This was one of the three gunboats captured during the Battle of Tripoli (BSLOC_2019_6_178)

French military manoeuvres: Engineers defending a trench. At top left is and observation balloon. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 1 October 1894. Army, Soldier, Weapon, Rifle

British cavalry charge through the waters of the Boyne, ensuring William III's accession in place of the deposed James II Date: 1 July 1690

Historical drawing, German soldiers with General August von Werder, Battle at the Lisaine or Bataille d'Héricourt at Belfort, Battle of Héricourt or Battle of Montbéliard, 15-17 January 1871, Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, 1870-1871, between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia

Independence of Bosnia Herzegovina, 1875. Uprising Herzegovina. Fight near Trebigne, who won the insurgents. Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1875. Colored.

The war of Germany against France./no.34/schlacht near Amiens on November 28, 1870. (TI)

Street struggles at Zamkowy Square in Warsaw on April 8, 1861; G Bocki, Adrian (1833-1905); around 1861 (1861-00-00-1865-00-00);The Library of the Krasiński Ordinance (Warsaw-1844-1944)-collection, Russians, Warsaw (Masovian Voivodeship), manifestations, manifestations in the Kingdom of Poland (1860-1863), Zamkowa Square (Warsaw), January Uprising (1863-1864), Repressions, repressions, Collective scenes, martial law in the Kingdom of Poland (1861-1863), murder

German troops marching across the Loire in Orleans on 5 December, France, German-French campaign of 1870/1871 / Deutsche Truppen beim Marsch über die Loire in Orleans am 5. Dezember, Frankreich, deutsch-französischer Feldzug 1870/1871, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt, Kolorierung, koloriert, handkoloriert, Hand-colouring, hand coloured, colored.

Wassilij Iwanowitsch Surikow (1848 1916) Russian Troops under Suvorov Crossing the Alps in 1799. Date 1899. The Italian and Swiss expeditions of 1799 and 1800 were undertaken by the Russian commander Alexander Suvorov against French force in the French Revolutionary Wars

Italy, 18th century. The Light-armed Troops Legion of the Kingdom of Sardinia fighting against the French, 1796. Illustration by Alessandro Biffignandi.

(News.) Battle of Reischoffen. - August 6, 1870. War of 1870-1871. / Expense of the 8th and 9th cuirassiers. (IT)

Second Boer War. Capitulation of the English garrison of Jamestown, in Transvaal. 'Le Petit Journal'. On June 23, 1901. Engraving.

Battle of Cerro Gordo, Mexican American War April 18th 1847

Andrew Jackson Standing in front of American Flag with Sword Raised during Battle of New Orleans, 1815, Reproduction of Painting by E. Percy Moran, 1910

The Battle of Lookout Mountain, November 24, 1863

'Robin Hood Rescues Little John', 1932. Little John '...had ventured into Nottingham some days previously, and, as he had not returned, grave fears were entertained for his safety. Robin Hood decided to return at once,...and rode off at a gallop...Robin pulled his horse close to Little John and approached him with his sword upraised as though to slay him. Then, quickly bending down, he cut the bonds and whispered, "Jump up behind me". Without a moment's hesitation, Little John leapt behind his master, who dug his spurs into his mettlesome horse and galloped away, before the onlooke

The cavalry engage at the battle of Waterloo. Date: 18 June 1815

Russian troops under Generalissimo Suvorov crossing the Alps in 1799. Vasily Surikov.

American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). William Jasper (c.1750-1779), sergeant in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment, raises the Fort Moultrie Flag on a temporary staff during the Battle of Sullivan's Island and held it under fire until a new staff was installed. Juny 28th, 1776. Engraving by Howard Pyle. Harper's Magazine, 1883. Later colouration.

Make way for liberty! by Henry Louis Stephens, 1824-1882, artist 1863. lithograph, showing African American Union soldier, bayoneting Confederate soldier during a battle in the American civil war.

The Battle of Gettysburg 1894. View of the Union lines on the morning of July 3. Edwin Forbes.

Zoeagen shoot guns in Saint-Maur-des-fosses; Camp de St Maur; Armee d'Italie ..

Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Francia. Combate en un bosque de Coucy, en las Ardenas. Grabado de 1916.

The Franco-Siamese War of 1893 started when French Indochina's Governor-General Jean de Lanessan sent Auguste Pavie as consul to Bangkok to bring Laos under French rule. The government in Bangkok, mistakenly believing that they would be supported by the British government, refused to concede territory east of the Mekong and instead reinforced their military and administrative presence. In July, the French sent two of their gunships up the Chao Phraya River into Bangkok. They came under fire but forced their way through. With guns trained on the Grand Palace in Bangkok, the French delivered an ultimatum to the Siamese on July 20 which included handing over Laos. When Siam, which was ruled by King Chulalongkorn, did not immediately comply unconditionally to the ultimatum, the French blockaded the Siamese coast. In the end the Siamese submitted fully to the French conditions, finding no support from the British. In addition, the French demanded as guarantees the temporary occupation of Ch

Image reproduction: Wojciech Kossak (1856-1942), fragment of "Battle of Pyramids" ("Four Grenadiers General Desaix refutes Mameluk's attack"); Z: "Biesiada Literacka" 1901, No. 15, pp. 290-291; Literary Biesiada (Warsaw; magazine; 1876-1917); 1901 (1901-00-00-1901-00-00);

The Guards saving the colours

Battle of Cold Harbor, Civil War - USA

The Siege of Vicksburg, May18-July 4, 1863

Spain. Third Carlist War.1872-1876. Battle of Oroquieta, Navarre. May 4, 1872. Engraving. Later colouration.

Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz (Bitva u Slavkova) also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, l December 1805. Decisive French victory over the Russian and Austrian empires, one of Napoleon's greatest victories. Popular French hand-coloured woodcut.

Pictures from the wars of Germany against France./The Battle of Sedan. (Ti)

The fall of the Pekin castle, the hostile army being beaten away from the imperial castle by the allied armies by Torajiro Kasai, artist 1900. Print shows the allied armies advancing toward the Boxer forces outside the imperial castle in Beijing, China.

Bombardment of Vera Cruz, March 1847 during Mexican American War

BALLERINI, Augusto (1857-1897). The Andes Pass. 1890. The army of San Martn crossing the los Andes to fight for the independence of Chile and Peru (1817). Oil on canvas. ARGENTINA. BUENOS AIRES. Buenos Aires. National Historical Museum of the Town Council.

DET- BATALLA DE HIGUERUELA (1431) - PINTURA AL FRESCO 1585 - SALA DE BATALLAS - DESPUES DE RESTAURAR. Author: GRANELLO-TAVARON-CASTELLO Y CAMBIASSO. Location: MONASTERIO-PINTURA. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Eugène Chaperon (born in 1857). "War trophies in the Court of Invalides, 1917". Oil on canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 27110-6 Arrondissement, Weapon, Canon, Hotel des Invalides, First World War, VIIEM VII 7th 7th

Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832-1914) English soldier. Fields Marshal 1895Commander-in-Chief in field in 2nd Boer War. Roberts entering Kimberley 1900, having relieved siege.

Paul Revere, after Henry Pelham, The Boston Massacre, 1770 The Boston Massacre

The Ottoman Empire's power and prestige peaked in the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. The empire was often at odds with the Holy Roman Empire in its steady advance towards Central Europe through the Balkans and the southern part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At sea, the empire contended with the Holy Leagues, composed of Habsburg Spain, the Republic of Venice and the Knights of St. John, for control of the Mediterranean. In the Indian Ocean, the Ottoman navy frequently confronted Portuguese fleets in order to defend its traditional monopoly over the maritime trade routes between East Asia and Western Europe; these routes faced new competition with the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. In addition, the Ottomans were occasionally at war with Persia over territorial disputes or caused by religious differences between 16th and 18th centuries. During nearly two centuries of decline, the Ottoman Empire graduall

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