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Historic Battles of France

Illustrations depicting historic battles in France, featuring knights, armor, and vivid colors that highlight significant military events and figures from the Hundred Years' War.

1300s 1381 DEATH OF WAT TYLER LEADER OF ENGLISH PEASANT REVOLT WHILE TALKING TO RICHARD II STABBED BY LORD MAYOR LONDON

Joan of Arc orders the English to leave France. After an illustration by Antoine Louis François Sergent in Portraits Des Grands Hommes, Femmes Illustres, Et Sujets Mémorables de France, gravés et imp

Battle of Poitiers (Hundred Years' War) ca. 1890 Frederic Theodore Lix (1830-1897 French) Color lithograph Private collection, Paris, France

Francois I (1494-1547) King of France from 1515. Francois at the Battle of Pavia, 24 February 1525, where he was captured by the Spanish troops and imprisoned by Charles V.

William the Silent (1533-1584). Leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsbrugs. Eighty Years' War. (Photo by: PHAS/UIG)

War of the League of Cognac (1526-1530). Sack of Rome on 6 May, 1527. Military event carried out by the troops of Holy Roman emperor Charles V (1500-1558). Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (1490-1527) and Constable of France, was in command of the imperial soldiers. His troops took the city and sacked it. Death of the Constable in the assault to Rome. Engraving. Colored.

1300s 1381 DEATH OF WAT TYLER LEADER OF ENGLISH PEASANT REVOLT WHILE TALKING TO RICHARD II STABBED BY LORD MAYOR LONDON

Germany. Middle Ages. Target shooting. Annual celebration. Engravin by Germania, 1882.

History of Germany. 1300-1350. From left to right, 3-4: noblemen, 5: armed citizen, 6-7: menestrals, 8: knight, 9: Landgrave of Thuringia. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal", by Cesar Cantu. Volume VI, 1885.

Hundred Years War between France and England. English troops attacking the walls of a French town with early cannon and both longbows and crossbows (1375-1425) Hand-coloured lithograph c1830.

Angel, P., Strasbourg, Heyden, Jacob van der, Pugillus facetiarum iconographicarum in studiosorum, Fight between students and soldiers, Numbered lower right: 5. With caption in Latin and German., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 98 mm, width 135 mm, South Netherlands (before 1775), 1573 - 1645, print maker, printmaker, 1608 - 1608, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), hand colouring, writer

Berenguer Ramon II the Fratricide (c.1053-c.1099). Count of Barcelona. Ramon Berenguer II taking the city of Tarragona, Catalonia. Engraving in Spain Illustrated History, 19th century. Colored.

King Henry V engages in hand-to- hand fighting on foot against the French infantry during the hundred years war Date: 25 October 1415

Joan of Arc liberating Orleans, 1429, coloured engraving, 19th century.

The Conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortés, González, Miguel and Juan (active End of 17th cen.)

Louis XIV leads the assault of Valenciennes, 17th century.

CONQUISTA MEXICO-CACIQUES OFRECEN FLORES E HIJAS A CORTES QUE LAS RECHAZA- ENCONCHADO - 1698. Author: JUAN y MIGUEL GONZALEZ PINTORES siglo XVII. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Berenguer Ramon II the Fratricide (c.1053-c.1099). Count of Barcelona. Ramon Berenguer II taking the city of Tarragona, Catalonia. Engraving in Spain Illustrated History, 19th century. Colored.

DASSY, Jean Joseph (1796-1865). Robert Curthouse fighting a Muslim warrior at the siege of Antioch. ca. 1838. First Crusade. Scene of the siege of Antioch led by Bohemund, Prince of Tarento, between 20th October 1097 and 3rd June 1908. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. YVELINES. Versailles. Palace of Versailles.

Alfonso VIII, king of Castile (1155-1214), celebrating the victory at the Batte of Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212, against the Almohad Muslim. Spain. Lithography. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration.

Battle of Zama. 16th c. SPAIN. Madrid. Royal Palace. Flemish art. Tapestry.

Death of King Harold, Battle of Hastings, 1066 (1864). Artist: James William Edmund Doyle

Battle of Najera or the Battle of Navarette with John of Gaunt, the Black Prince, and Pedro the Cruel allied (to the left of the image) against Henry II of Castile and the French.

Quintus Sertorius (c. 123-72 BC). Roman statesman and general. Quintus Sertorius besieges the Lusones in Contrebia Belaisca Colored engraving.

EDWARD VI rides to his coronation through the snow- covered streets of London. Date: 20 February 1547

Aniello Falcone (1607-1656). Baroque italian painter. Battle against amaleks and jews, 1640-45. Detail. National Museum of Capodimonte. Naples. Italy.

JOAN OF ARC captured at Compiegne Date: 1430

Hundred Years' War. Conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453, pitted the Kingdom of England against the Valois Capetians for control of the French throne. Battle. Miniature. 15th century. Chateau of Chantilly. France.

The figures shown here represent Germans around A.D. 1100. They are from left to right: five warriors and two princesses. The illustration dates to 1882.

Germany, Bremen, 1813-1866; Cologne, 1275-1774. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Germany

The Gugler entering Alsace, 1485, engraving from Spiezer Bilder Cronik. France, 15th century.

The figures represented here are Germans between 1500 and 1550. They are, from left to right: a bishop, a knight, a fool (seated), Georg Frundsberg (commander in chief to George V), man of rank, huntsman. The illustration dates to 1882.

Pirates. British pirates boarding an Algerine Corsair, 19th cent. engraving. ENGLAND.

Migration Period (Germanic Tribes and the Huns). 4th-6th century. Engraving, 1882. Color.

Crusaders besiege Damascus in 12th cent. from 15th cent. Book, France.

Tournament in Wittenberg of the Keurvangel Court of Saxony. Tournament in Wittenberg organized by the court of Saxony. Knights on horseback ride in each other while they try to work with lanning their opponent from the saddle. At the left is a group of musicians, seated on horses, blowing on trumpets and store on drums. On a balcony the nobility is like a spectator. Two shields against the wall show the ducal and judicial weapon of Saxony.

King LOUIS XII, also Duke of Orleans, 1462-1515, leaving Alexandria to subdue rebels at Genoa in April 1507, from Voyage to Genoa, by Jean Marot, Tours, c. 1508

TORNEO-REVISION DE LAS ARMAS. Author: ANJOU RENE DE.

Landsknecht advance to the attack, 16th century, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from the 19th century, exact date unknown

Conrad V of Germany. King of the Germans, Sicily and Jerusalem. Scene of his Execution. Engraving by Germania, 1882.

Lord fauconbridge at the Battle of Towton 1461. The Battle of Towton was fought during the English Wars of the Roses on 29 March 1461, near the village of Towton in Yorkshire. It brought about a change of monarchs in England, with the victor, the Yorkist Edward, Duke of Yorkwho became King Edward IV (14611483) having displaced the Lancastrian King Henry VI (14221461) as king, and thus drove the head of the Lancastrians and his key supporters out of the country.

Guerra en el Riff. Año 1909. Toma por las fuerzas españolas de la alcazaba de Zeluán.

Battle of Auray (29 September 1364). War of the Breton Succession (1341-1364). Confrontation between two Breton factions. One of them was supported by France, led by Charles de Blois and Bernard du Gueslin. The other faction was supported by England, under John de Montfort and Sir John Chandos. The Anglo-Breton side won the victory. Facsimile after an illustration from the Chronicles of Brittany, 1514. "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et à l'Epoque de la Renaissance." Paris, 1877.

Utrecht masquerade of 1881 (first album); Triumphelijcke Incomst Vanden Speeligheghen and the Hooghgheboren Aerts-Hertoge Matthias, inside that Princelijcke Stadt van Brussele in T'iaer us Heeren M.D.LxXVIII. Den Xviij Dach January. Held by Lord members of the Utrecht student corps on 28 June 1881 on the occasion of the 245th anniversary of the Hoogeschool.First album with a part of the procession. Part of the Series of Seven Plates Plus Title Process and Explanation of the Costumed Procession by the Students of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences on 28 June 1881 in The Celebration of the 245th Anniversary of the University. Proposed is The Arrival of Archduke Matthias in Brussels on January 18, 1578.

German Military in 1600

Bernat o Berenguer de Rocafort (1271-1309). Militar y caudillo de los almogávares. Detención y prisión de Berenguer de Rocafort. Ilustración por Urrabieta. Grabado por A. Roca. Historia de Cataluña y de la Corona de Aragón, por Victor Balaguer. Barcelona,1862.

Assassination of King Albert of Austria by John of Swabia, Duke of Austria and Steyer, called Parricida, Latin for father- or kinsman-killer, near Koenigsfeld, 1290-1313, historical engraving from 1883, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a model from the 19th century.

Edad Media. Tabalero, Espatharios y Montero de Espinosa de la Guardia del Rey. Dibujo de Villegas. Lámina número 10 del ALBUM DE LA INFANTERIA ESPAÑOLA del Teniente General Conde de Clonard. Litografía Militar, Madrid, año 1861.

Barbarian invasion. Illustration by J. Alaminos. Chromolithography. Historia General de España (General History of Spain), by Miguel Morayta. Volume I. Madrid, 1888. Author: Juan Alaminos. Spanish artist of the second half of the 19th century.

Pedro the Cruel of Castile is defeated at Montiel by his half-brother, Enrico of Trastamara, with the aid of the French under Bertrand du Guesclin Date: 14 March 1369

Knight Tournament, Schäufelin, Hans (c. 1480/85-1540)

fine arts, Teniers the Elder, David (1582 - 1649), pen drawing ""Group of Soldiers"", washed, heightened with white chalk, 23.8 cm x 18.0 cm, Stuttgart State Galery, Graphic Collection,

Hernandez Cortes (Cortez - 1485-1547) Spanish conquistador (Mexico). Cortes arriving in Mexico followed by his black servant and preceded by La Malinche, his interpreter and mistress. 16th century, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

The figures here represent military and nobles from the lands that today comprise Germany. The costumes date to A.D. 1600. From left to right, they are: two musketeers, two cuirassiers (mounted cavalry soldiers equipped with armor and firearms), Generalissmo Wallenstein (Bohemian soldier and politician), and Octavius Piccolomini. This illustration dates to 1882.

The Great Battle, miniature from the Life of Alexander The Great, France 15th Century.

The Cathar Heresy: death of Simon de Montfort during the Battle of Toulouse, June 25, 1218, miniature from the History of the Crusades against the Albigensians (Historie de la croisade contre les albigeois), France 13th Century.

Italy. Genoa, 878-1684 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Italy

History of Spain. Reconquista. Battle between Christian troops and saracens in lands of Zamora. 11th century. Translation of Our Lady of Saint Antolin to Zamora by the Palentines. 17th-18th centuries. Church of Saint Antolin. Zamora. Castile and Leon.

Polish siege of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in 1608.. Zakład Lit.Troicko-Siergiejewej Ławry, lithography atelier, unknown, graphic artist

GUERRA CARLISTA. TERCERA GUERRA CARLISTA. ( 1872 - 1876 ). REINADO DE ALFONSO XII. " SAQUEO DE CUENCA POR LAS TROPAS DE ALFONSO CARLOS , AÑO 1874 ". GRABADO DE LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

NICOLAS II OF RUSSIA Russian Tsar riding out of the Kremlin via the Spassky Gate

RICHARD I, THE LIONHEART (1157 - 1199) English King on horseback in crusading garb.

Mounted Medieval Knights In Battle In The Interior Of Museum Of The Battle Of Navas De Tolosa 1212, Santa Elena Jaen Province Spain

The Battle of Badr (Arabic: غزوة بدر‎), fought Saturday, March 13, 624 AD (17 Ramadan, 2 AH in the Islamic calendar) in the Hejaz region of western Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia), was a key battle in the early days of Islam and a turning point in Muhammad's struggle with his opponents among the Quraish in Mecca. The battle has been passed down in Islamic history as a decisive victory attributable to divine intervention, or by secular sources to the strategic genius of Muhammad. It is one of the few battles specifically mentioned in the Qur'an. Most contemporary knowledge of the battle at Badr comes from traditional Islamic accounts, both hadiths and biographies of Muhammad, recorded in written form some time after the battle. Prior to the battle, the Muslims and Meccans had fought several smaller skirmishes in late 623 and early 624, as the Muslim ghazawāt (prophet-led battles) had become more frequent. Badr, however, was the first large-scale engagement between the two forces. Adva

German Peasants' War, 1524-1526, Storming of Weinsberg/German Peasants' War, storming of Weinsberg, historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original model from the 19th century, exact original date not known, subsequently colored

Death'. Allegorical print of War after German painter and engraver Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550). In background, baggage wagon with sappers' tools, including barrels of explosive. In front, soldiers carry booty including pig they have commandeered. Beh

Departure of Spanish troops from Paris, 22 March 1594

William the Conqueror with his ragtag army of Normans in 1066. William in chain mail suit of armor with mace and helmet on horseback, ragtag army of knights in armor in front of a pub called the Dukes Head. William inspecting the volunteers previous to the Invasion of England. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Gilbert Abbott ABecketts Comic History of England, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, 1880.

The Assassination of Louis I, Duke of Orléans, Maître de la Chronique d'Angleterre (active ca 1470-1480)

Historia de Catalunya. Batalla contra los turcos cerca de las puertas Cilicias con la victoria de Roger de Flor (1267-1305) y los almogávares. Cromo de Xacolata Juncosa. Año 1932. Author: Albert Mestre Moragas.

The French entering Warsaw, November 28, 1806. Napoleonic Wars, Poland, 19th century.

Charles V's army against Tunis, 1535, by Franz Hogenberg (ca.1540-ca.1590), engraving. Tunisia, 16th century.

Battle of Majuba Hill, General George Colley and his troops, February 27, 1891, engraving. First Boer War, South Africa, 19th century.

The Truthful History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo. The Council of the Villa Rica of the Vera Cruz proposed to appoint of Hernan Cortes as General. Engraving, 1807. Colored.

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, Paris, French Wars of Religion, 1572

Battle scene from the time of the Battle of MUehldorf, medieval miniature painting from 1334, Germany, Europe

Kazimierz Alchimowicz (1840-1916), defense of Olsztyn; Kulikowski, Stefan (Warsaw; Publisher); around 1910 (1905-00-00-1915-00-00);

Sultan Selim I, nicknamed Yavuz "the Stern", "the Steadfast" or "the Grim" (1465-1520) - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Expanded the Empire, particularly through his conquest between 1516-1517 of the entire Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. Date: 1516

Bayeux Tapestry. Battle of Hastings. 1066. Norman cavalry meets the Wall of Shields.

Frederick the Great, Frederick II in 1712, 1786 and Zieten after the Battle of Torgau on 3 November 1760, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century master

Alterations of Aragon. Mutiny of Zaragoza, 1591. Engraving by Historia de Espana. 19th century. Colored.

An impression of part of the Coronation procession at the time of King Henry IV (1366 - 1413), showing knightly attendants in procession up the nave bearing the mace, the helmet, the shield and the Sword of State. Standing on the extreme left is a man of the law, the scarlet cap slung over his shoulder a distinguishing badge of office. Date: 1937

Romania, Bucharest, National Military Museum, medieval battlefield mural

Kiev Arsenal factory workers revolting against the Ukrainian Central Rada in January of 1918. (Painting by A.M. Ermolayev)

War scene by Alexei Danilovich Kivshenko, Watercolour on paper, 1880, 1851-1895, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Central Navy Museum, 33x44

General Joseph Vladimirovich Gurko entering the city of Sofia, 1878. Detail. Russo-Turkish War, Bulgaria, 19th century.

Emperor CHARLES V, 1500-58, King of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor, archduke of Austria, entering Bologna, Italy for his coronation, 1530

Painting of Joan of Arc in battle. Joan of Arc (c. 1412 - 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orleans" (French: La Pucelle d'Orleans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a saint.

Swiss Habsburg Wars, Battle of Sempach, Knights in the Fray, Miniature from 1385, Germany, Europe

Edad Media. Lancero, Atambor, Alférez abanderado y Espingardero. Dibujo de Villegas. Lámina número 23 del ALBUM DE LA INFANTERIA ESPAÑOLA del Teniente General Conde de Clonard. Litografía Militar, Madrid, año 1861.

Illustration of a 15th Century French tournament depicted in the Livre des Tournois di Roi Renè, the knights' banners and helms were exhibited before the fight. The knights on the left with their squires holding up the pennants inside the counter; the four men in the foreground are constables, and ladies of the court are to the right. Dated 15th Century

France, 1896 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

The storming of the ST, Marxer line, on October , Johann Kratschmer, publisher

Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War (1409-1411). Conflict between Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania against the Teutonic Knights. Painting depicting the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) (15 July, 1410), 1878, by Jan Matejko (1838-1893). Detail. National Museum. Warsaw. Poland.

Peninsular War (1808-1814). Catalonia. Battles of El Bruch. Engagements fought successively, that took place on 6 June and 14 June 1808. Catalan volunteers and Somatent surprised the Napoleonic troops in the Bruch Gorge, defeating the French. The Heroes of El Bruch. Chromolithography. "Glorias Españolas" (Glories of Spain). Volume IV. Published in Barcelona, 1890.

Vereenigde Provincien der Nederlanden. s.n. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Netherlands, Military uniforms , Netherlands, Soldiers , Netherlands

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, written in 1356/7, became a very popular text, surpassing even the exploits of Marco Polo. The Travels described a journey to Constantinople, Palestine, and Egypt and further routes to Asia Minor, ending at the Great Khan of China. Pictured here is a knightly tournament held in Constantinople. Tournaments were chivalrous competitions based on the mêlée, a general combat where knights formed two competing sides and charged at each other. In the foreground we see a joust, a single contest between two knights. They are clothed in full armor and bearing weapons and shields. The competitor on the left is trying to unseat his opponent with his lance.

Polish army in Moscow by Ernest Ernestovich Lissner, oil on canvas, 1874-1941, Russia, Moscow, State History Museum

The capture of La Goulette and Tunis by Charles V, 1535, by Franz Hogenberg (ca.1540-ca.1590), engraving. Tunisia, 16th century.

1. / Battle of Wissembourg. - August 4, 1870. (IT)

Colour Illustration; The Death of General Gordon, 26 January 1885 from the painting by George W. Joy

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