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Historic Battles of the 19th Century

Dramatic scenes of 19th-century battlefields depicting intense combat during the Franco-Prussian War and American Civil War, rich in color and historical detail.

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Battle of Coulmiers, November 9, 1870. Franco-Prussian War, France, 19th century.

STORMING OF THE GREAT BARRICADE AT THE ENTRANCE OF LE BOURGET BY THE 3RD GARDE-GRENADIER REGIMENT 'QUEEN ELISABETH' ON THE 30TH OF OCTOBER, 1870. The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870. CHRISTIAN GEORG SPEYER, 1855 Vorbachzimmern - 1929 Stuttgart. German Painter and illustrator, a professor at the Stuttgart Academy of Arts (1901-1924).

Battle of Antietam, also called Battle of Sharpsburg, was the decisive battle of the Confederate Maryland Campaign during the American Civil War. It took place on 17 September (1862) along the Antietam River in Maryland, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period, Battle of Antietam, also called Battle of Sharpsburg, was the decisive battle of the Confederate Maryland Campaign during the American Civil War. It took place on 17 September 1862 along the A

Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Batalla del Aisne. El ejército francés cruza el rio Aisne atacando posiciones alemanas. Septiembre de 1914.

Schlacht von Williamsburg, Schlacht von Fort Magruder, war eine Schlacht des Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges, die im Rahmen des Halbinsel-Feldzuges am 5. Mai 1862 bei Williamsburg, Virginia, Amerika, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Capture of Fort Donelson Tennessee 1862. From painting by Alonzo Chappel.

Battle of Nashville - US Civil War

SAN QUINTIN, BATALLA DE. GUERRA ENTRE FRANCIA Y ESPAÑA. AÑO 1557. REINADO DE FELIPE II. LITOGRAFIA DE J. DONON.

The Second War of Independence: The Battle of San Martino, 24 June 1859, by Michele Cammarano (1835-1920).

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The Defence of Rorke's Drift' by Lady Butler. From The Island Race, a 20th century book that covers the history of the British Isles from the pre-Roman times to the Victorian era. Written by Sir Winston Churchill and abridged by Timothy Baker.

American Revolution, Battle of Bunker Hill (aka Breed's Hill), June 17, 1775. British soldiers cross over the bodies of their dead and wounded, into the fire from Americans on top of Breed's Hill. On the British third assault, they captured the American position when the defenders ran out of ammunition. Illustration by Howard Pyle, c. 1897. (BSLOC_2019_3_85)

The Duke of Wellington(1769 -1852) on the field at the battle of Waterloo, 1815. Date: 18th June 1815

In the American Civil War (18611865), there was very heavy fighting near Richmond, Virginia, between June 26 and July 2, 1862. Confederate General Robert E. Lee moved to cut off Union general McClellan from his base at White House Landing. The Union forces fell back to Gaines's Mill and after heavy fighting, the Confederates won the battle there on June 27. The scene in this painting shows the cavalry charge of the 5th regulars in the Union Army at Gaines's Mill.

events Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871 skirmish at Le Bourget 30.10.1870 Prussian guard storming a barricade engraving after Christian Speyer 1894,

King Louis XIV Against the Dutch General States Maurice Leloir (1853-1940 French)

Battle of the Crater, Petersburg, Va. , Historic sites, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

The Annihilation of the Turkish Troops Near Bajatsid, 1877 Artist Unknown Color lithograph

Battle of Antietam.

Photochrom of the painting 'The Dream' by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille (1848-1912) French academic painter and military artist. Dated 19th Century

American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777). The General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces near Princeton, New Jersey. Engraving. 19th century.

Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 8th 1862 in the American Civil War

Battle of Wissembourg, August 4, 1870. Franco-Prussian War, France, 19th century.

Guerra de la independencia. Año 1808. Combate en las cercanías de Zaragoza.

Engraving depicting the Battle of Luchana. The battle occurred at Bilbao and its vicinities during the night of December 23, 1836 and went on until December 24, 1836

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

Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand 1863 to 1934 pipe in mouth cane in hand leads Zouave and Moroccan units against German enemy Western Front 1915 From The War Illustrated Album deLuxe published London 1916

Battle of Champigny, Franco-Prussian war, 30th November-2nd December 1870. Artist: Unknown

Field Marshal Sir John Forster FitzGerald, siege of San Sebastián, Peninsular War

Second Carlist War (1846-1849). Civil war by the Carlists under General Ramon Cabrera against the forces of the government of Isabel I.

events Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1870 Battle of Noisseville 31.8.1870 charge of Prussian Landwehr chromolithograph after Georg Koch circa 1895,

Napoleon at Friedland Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891 French)

Siege of Danzig (1807) old Prussia (today Poland). War of the Fourth Coalition. Napoleonic Wars. Engraving, 19th century.

events Austro - Prussian War 1866 battle at K_niggr_tz 3.7.1866 engraving 19th century Prussia Austria Moravia Sadova prussian austrian infantry cavalry warfare,

The Defense of Pantin according to Schommer. Second fragment.

Patrice de Mac-Mahon on horseback in the Battle of Woerth, Franco-German War 1870/71 / Patrice de Mac-Mahon zu Pferd in der Schlacht von Wörth, Deutsch-Französischer Krieg 1870/71, historisch, C:CC5historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815. Wellington with his Staff doffing his hat (to Blucher). This battle brought to an end the Napoleonic Wars. Watercolour sketch by John Atkinson.

Last Charge of the Red Lancers at Waterloo, 1815, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Spain. First Carlist War. Storming of Solsona. Litography. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

Charge of the Palmettos at the Battle of Churubusco, August 20, 1847. From An Illuminated History of North America, from the earliest period to the present time, published 1860.

Guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). Catalunya. Batalla del Bruc que supuso la primera victoria sobre el ejército francés. Grabado de 1861. Author: Eusebi Planas Franquesa.

Guerras Napoleónicas. Batalla de Waterloo. Combate que tuvo lugar el 18 de junio de 1815 en la actual Bélgica, con victoria de la Septima Coalición. Ilustración a color de la "Armeé Française, Nos Soldats" (Ejército Francés, Nuestros Soldados). Autor, Eugene Hennebert (1826-1896). París, h. 1890. Ilustraciones firmadas por Hussenot y Pallandre. Biblioteca Histórico Militar de Barcelona, Cataluña, España.

Mexican American War. Battle of Churubusco, August 20, 1847. After the Battle of Contreras, the Mexican Army retreated to Churubusco, where the fighting continued on August 21. In the distance is the town and convent where the battle ended with a Mexican surrender, leaving only 5 miles distance between the US Army and Mexico City (BSLOC_2019_8_48)

Germany, Bavaria, 1857-1869 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Germany

Italian unification (1859-1924). Castelfidardo battle. Papal troops were defeated. Engraving. "L'Illustration" (1860). Colored.

The Battle of Loos was the largest British offensive mounted in September 1915 on the Western Front during World War one. The first British use of poison gas occurred and the battle was the first mass engagement of New Army units

A ray of sunshine in the midst of dark days, 26 October 1806, (1936). Creator: Unknown.

Colonels and Privates of Infantry Volunteers, 1864, U.S. Army

Battle of Gravelotte (August 18, 1870). (IT)

General Andrew Jackson - At the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815 during the War of 1812

American Revolution. 12 different uniforms of American soldiers in the infantry, cavalry and artillery, during the Revolutionary War. Watercolor by Charles Lefferts, c. 1910-20 (BSLOC_2019_3_197)

War of 1870. / Take of Orleans. / 10 Dec. 1870. (IT)

Barascudts, Max (1869-1927) Private Collection 1914 Lithograph German of 20th cen. Germany History

To the British Nation, Print made by Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785-1838, British, after William Heath, 1795-1840, British, 1836, Colored aquatint on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 26 1/16 x 39 1/4 inches (66.2 x 99.7 cm), animal art, armies, historical subject, horse (animal), nation, soldiers

Guerra de la independencia. Año 1808. Asalto de Zaragoza por las tropas francesas en febrero de 1810.

Crimean War 1853-1856: 'French assault on the Malakoff, Russian fortification before Sevastopol', French advancing from left, in foreground are Zouaves, French North African troops. Siege Russia France Turkey Britain Ottoman

Seven Years' War, global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763, Musketeers and grenadiers on the march from Moravia to Kuestrin, historical illustration, 1880, Germany, Europe

French invasion - or - Bonaparte landing in Great-Britain. Cartoon showing Napoleon and his army, on seashore, fleeing from English soldiers with a British flag and two cannons on a low sandy cliff.

'The Battle of Almansa', 1862, Oil on canvas, 142 cm x 229 cm, P04189. Author: RICARDO BALACA Y CANSECO (1844-1880). Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

The battle of Erzerum, 1877, Epinal print. Russo-Turkish War, Turkey, 19th century.

Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, Civil War - USA

The First Battle of Bull Run; also known as First Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces); was fought on July 21; 1861; in Prince William County; Virginia; near the city of Manassas; not far from Washington; D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War.

American Civil War 1861-1865: Battle of Gettysburg 1-3 July 1863, ending Lee's invasion of the North. Union infantry advancing from the right. Print of 1867. Fighting Action Soldier Flag Weapon Rifle Bayonet Field Gun Fire Smoke

Italy. Sardinia, 1859 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Italy

The Prince of Wales Albert Edward

Siege of Vicksburg Mississippi 1863. Fight in crater made by mine explosion under Confederate works.

Digitally restored Civil War print depicting the Union Army's capture of Fort Fisher. The capture of Fort Fisher was a joint assault of Union Army and Naval forces. Fort Fisher was referred to as the Gibraltar of the South and was the last major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy. The battle took place January 13 - 15, 1865 outside of Wilmington, North Carolina.

Battle of Pleven, 1877. Detail. Russo-Turkish War, Bulgaria, 19th century.

Champigny fight. / (Defense of Paris 1870-71.) (IT)

War of 1870. / Battle of Froeschwiller. / August 6, 1870. (IT)

Prussian soldiers shoot at French riders, Prussian rapid fire on French cavalry at the Battle of Sedan around noon on 1 September, Franco-German War 1870/71 / Preußische Soldaten schießen auf französische Reiter, preußisches Schnellfeuer auf französische Kavallerie bei der Schlacht von Sedan um die Mittagszeit am 1. September, Deutsch-Französischer Krieg 1870/71, historisch, C:CC5historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

Buena Vista, Mexico, February 23, 1847Fighting in the open on a dusty mountainside in a foreign land a thousand miles from home, facing an enemy many times its own strength, the Mississippi Rifles, commanded by Colonel Jefferson Davis, displayed a rock-like defense against a Mexican attack in response to the command, "Stand Fast, Mississippians!" Earlier, the battle had reached a critical stage when the Rifles (in the action depicted) were ordered to attack Mexican cavalry and infantry advancing on the Americans. The "hard-fighting Mississippi gentlemen" moved up, fired, then drew Bowie knives and closed in. The Rifles -- the 155th Infantry of the modern Mississippi Army National Guard - thus wrote another chapter in the proud National Guard tradition.

Capture of the Tuileries, 10 August 1792: After picture by Henri Motte commemorating the storming of the royal palace and the attempted flight of the royal family. From Le Petit Journal, 13 August 1892. France, Revolution

American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The Battle of Long Island or Battle of Brooklyn(August 27, 1776). Withdrawal of Continental Army of George Washington. Engraving.

First Battle of Bull Run, (First Manassas), July 21, 1861. General Stonewall Jackson standing with soldiers, monitoring the action of the battle at Henry House Hill. Jackson was with General Joseph Johnson's army brought in by railroad from the Shenandoah Valley. The fresh troops turned the tide against the Union forces in the 10 hour struggle (BSLOC_2018_6_133)

Defense of Le Bourget against the battle of the French marines in battle on December 21st, France , Franco-German War 1870/71 / Verteidigung von Le Bourget gegen den Kampf der französischen Marineinfanterie in der Schlacht am 21. Dezember, Frankreich , Deutsch-Französischer Krieg 1870/71, historisch, C:CC5historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

GUERRA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA. "TOMA DE ZARAGOZA POR EL EJERCITO FRANCES EL 27 DE FEBRERO DE 1809". Hechos acaecidos tras el largo sitio vivido por la ciudad (1808-1809). 262x353 mm. Cobre, talla dulce: aguafuerte y buril. Colección Arteclio. Pamplona. Museo Municipal. Madrid. España.

Battle of Talavera, Peninsular War, 27-28 July 1809. Artist: Unknown

Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1807 - 1882, leads his men at the Battle of Varese, 26 May, 1859 during the Second Italian War of Independence. After a contemporary work by Adolphe Jean Baptiste Bayot.

Sheridan's ride.. Thulstrup, Thure de (1848-1930). Proofs, Cards. 1865 - 1899. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Campaigns & battles, United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865

The Battle of Resaca, May 14-15, 1864

Historical drawing, Albert of Saxony, 1828-1902, King of Saxony in the Battle of Gravelotte, 16 August 1870, scene from the Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War 1870-1871, between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia

Historia de España. Batalla de Roncesvalles el 15 de agosto de 778, en la que la retaguardia del ejército de Carlomagno, rey de los francos, mandada por Roldán fue diezmada en una emboscada efectuada por vascones.

'Battle of Lookout Mountain', (1878). Creator: Unknown.

Battle of Chattanooga, November 1863 1864 Currier & Ives (1834-1907 American) Color lithograph

GUERRA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA. ESPAÑA 1808-1814. REINADO DE FERNANDO VII. " BATALLA DE MORALES " ( 2 DE JUNI DE 1813 ). GRABADO COLOREADO DEL SIGLO XIX.

France, 1791-1792 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

Rudolph Otto von Budritzki and the 2nd Battalion of the Guards Grenadier Regiment, Queen Elizabeth, at the entrance of Le Bourget in the fight on 30 October, France , Franco-German War 1870/71 / Rudolph Otto von Budritzki und das 2. Bataillon des Garde-Grenadier-Regiments, Königin Elisabeth, am Eingang von Le Bourget im Kampf am 30. Oktober, Frankreich, Deutsch-Französischer Krieg 1870/71, historisch, C:CC5historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

''Le General Gallieni', 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Clive fired one of the guns himself

Painting titled 'Saving the Colours: The Guards at the Battle of Inkerman' by Robert Gibb (1845-1932) Scottish painter. Dated 19th Century

'Death of Sir John Moore, 1809', (c1850s). Artist: Unknown

Battle of Fredericksburg.

BATTLE BEFORE LE MANS-CHAMPAGNE ON THE 11TH OF JANUARY 1871. The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870. Georg Koch (1857-1936) was a very well-known German painter, woodcut and lithograph artist of the late 19th - early 20th century. Pupil of his father Carl Koch, he also studied at the Berlin Academy.

1st World War, French reserve artillery is prevented by German barrage from bringing help to the front lines (original pictorial text from 1915, original colouring), Illustration, Reproduction from a 19th century original. Authentic, File restored for optimal use, Exact date of original unknown, Historical, Dramatic scene with soldiers and horses in battle

Capture of the Forts at Taku Dagu, by Fritz Neumann during the Boxer Rebellion

Detail of the Scots Fusilier Guards (Scots Guards) Richard Simkin (1840-1926, British)

España. Primera guerra carlista (1833-1840). Asalto a un reducto de Ager el 11 de febrero de 1839. Grabado de 1870.

Vive L'Empereur. Date/Period: 1891. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 4,450 mm (14.59 ft); Width: 5,125 mm (16.81 ft). Author: Edouard Detaille.

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