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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.

1860s UNION SOLDIERS TAKING CONFEDERATE RAMPARTS BATTLE SCENE PAINTING AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - q60368 CPC001 HARS MALES RISK B&W NORTH AMERICA WARS DISASTER ADVENTURE DEATH STRATEGY COURAGE EXCITEMENT LEADERSHIP UNIFORMS CHARGING 1860s WOUNDS LOSING ATTACKING DEFENSE FIREARM FIREARMS MID-ADULT MID-ADULT MAN YOUNG ADULT MAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ASSAULT BATTLES BLACK AND WHITE CAUCASIAN ETHNICITY CIVIL WAR CONFLICTS OLD FASHIONED RAMPARTS
1860s UNION SOLDIERS TAKING CONFEDERATE RAMPARTS BATTLE SCENE PAINTING AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - q60368 CPC001 HARS MALES RISK B&W NORTH AMERICA WARS DISASTER ADVENTURE DEATH STRATEGY COURAGE EXCITEMENT LEADERSHIP UNIFORMS CHARGING 1860s WOUNDS LOSING ATTACKING DEFENSE FIREARM FIREARMS MID-ADULT MID-ADULT MAN YOUNG ADULT MAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ASSAULT BATTLES BLACK AND WHITE CAUCASIAN ETHNICITY CIVIL WAR CONFLICTS OLD FASHIONED RAMPARTS
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General Greggs troops getting into action. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Gregg, David McMurtrie, 1833-1916, Military service, Soldiers, 1860-1870, Artillery (Weaponry), 1860-1870, Military officers, Union, 1860-1870, Cavalry, Union, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns & battles, United States, Virginia, Culpeper , Cavalry Division, 2ndThe First Troops in Homestead on July 12, 1892. The town had been in the control of the strikers until the Pennsylvania state militia of 4,000 soldiers displaced the strikers in 20 minutes. Company officials were allowed back into the mills and another 2,000 troops reserve troops camped nearby.BATALLA DE VALLS O BATALLA DEL PUENTE DEL GOI EL 25 DE FEBRERO DE 1809 - GUERRA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA ESPAÑOLA - GRABADO SIGLO XIX. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.The Taking of the Dogubeyazit Fortress, Anonymous Boer War: Siege of Mafeking by Boers 12 October 1899 - 17 May 1900: defending British troops making a night sortie.Juan de la Corte (ca.1585-1662). Baroque painter. Festivities in the Plaza Mayor, ca.1630. Detail. History Museum. Madrid. Spain.Irish soldiers are depicted fighting on the Western front during the First World War, leaving their trenches and charging the enemy. The illustration was published shortly after the Easter Rising of April 1916, where Irish nationalist rebels rose in Dublin and were forcibly put down by British troops. The heroism of those Irish loyal to the Empire during the war and their disgust for the 'traitors,' back home is emphasised here by the Illustrated London News. 1916Couch's Corps forming line of battle in the fields at Chancellorsville to cover the retreat of the Eleventh Corps disgracefully running away, drawing, 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, USBattle of Harlem Heights, Manhattan Island New York USA 1776, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated'Death of General Wolfe', 1759 (c1850s). Artist: UnknownCándido López, marcha del ejercito Argentino a tomar posiciones para el ataque a Curupayatí el 22 de septiembre de 1866, 1902, óleo sobre tela, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) ,Buenos Aires, republica Argentina, cono sur, South America.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.Confederate General Robert E. Lee standing on a ridge with other commanders, monitoring the US Civil War Battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, 11-15 December 1862. J. E.B. Stuart is the Cavalry General on horseback. Stonewall Jackson is second from right, uncommonly neat in a new uniform. James Longstreet is at far right (BSLOC_2018_7_60)Heroic defense of Belfort by Colonel Denfert, Epinal print. Franco-Prussian War, France, 19th century.France, 1870 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France Battle of Gettysburg took place from 1 to 3 July 1863 near Gettysburg in Pennsylvania a few kilometres north of the Maryland border during the War of Secession, Pennsylvania 1863, USA, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, North AmericaPot hunters disdaining the rustics - Upper class hunters looking down on the locals, circa 1883France, 1880-1896 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, FranceFirst Sino-Japanese War, 1894: Battle at the mouth of the Yalu Rover, 17 September 1894, between the Japanese and Chinese navies. The Chinese fleet was overwhelmed by that of the Japanese. Chromolithograph c1900.The Battle of Vim Ridge, during world war one. Colour print on light card, after a painting by Richard Jack, 1918Andersonville Prison. Prisoners work on a burial detail in the Andersonville cemetery. Some men are digging a long trench, as others unload and line up the dead for burial. Grave markers were assigned numbers, which were recorded with their names. After the war, Clara Barton would use this information to account for the unknown dead of the US Civil War. In upper left, the graves of the executed 'Raiders' are kept separate from the others (BSLOC_2019_2_31)The Battle of Shipka-Sheinovo, where Bulgarian troops held back the advance of the Ottoman Central army for two days, 1877. Detail. Russo-Turkish War, Bulgaria, 19th century.Charging Insurgent Earthworks beyond the Bagbag River during the Philippine-American War - April 25, 1899JAPANESE RUSSIAN WAR-BATTLE OF MUKDEN (SHENYANG) 1905-JAPANESE VICTORY. GENERAL KOUROPATKINE CALLS FOR RETREAT. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.Europa. Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Cañón mortero del calibre 18 durante una acción militar. Dibujo de 1919. Author: HARRY PAYNE.The Great fire at Chicago October 9th 1871. View from the west sideP.A. Krivonogov. Defenders of Brest Fortress. 1954. The defense of Brest Fortress was the first major battle of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union launched on 22 June 1941, lasting from 22 to 29 June. The defenders had received no warning of the attack, and the German Heer (army) expected to take Brest on the first day using only infantry and artillery. The defense of the fortress by the Red Army lasted for several days; the defenders lost many men killed and captured and German ground forces took the fortress only after two bombardments by the Luftwaffe.Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge. Painting by John Ward Dunsmore. George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette on horseback at winter quarters in Valley Forge, Pa.; soldiers huddled around campfire in background.Italian brigade in action against Spanish republican forces during the Spanish Civil WarBattle of the Yalu River, Sino-Japanese War, 25 October 1894. The First Sino-Japanese War was fought in 1894-1895 between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan over the control of Korea. The victory for Japan emphasised the decline of Chinese power and the rise of Japan since it opened up to the West in the 1850s. Part of a Private Collection and the artist is unknown.events Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871 Battle of Woerth 6.8.1870 charge of French cuirassiers wood engraving after painting by Aimee Morot 1887,Disembarking of the Argentinean Army by Lopez, 1866''La bataille de Champagne; Sur la route de Souain a Somme-Py: un marmite', 1915 (1924). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.The Victorious Battle of PatayThe Spanish American War. The Battle of Las Guasimas. The 9th and 10th colored cavalry in support of rough riders near a Spanish position in the jungles surrounding Santiago, Cuba. June 24, 1898Algerian and Tunisian troops, known as Turcos, in a bayonet charge against German soldiers at the Battle of Charleroi, Belgium during the First World War. From The Illustrated War News published 1914Attack on Little Round Top held by the 5th Corps commanded by General Sykes, Battle of Gettysburg, USA Civil War, July 1863Estados Unidos. Reconocimiento aéreo desde un aeroplano de la villa de Juárez, Méjico. Dibujo publicado en Le Petit Journal. Año 1911.Napoleon's invasion of Russia by Igor Ivanovich Gorokhov, oil on canvas, 1974, - 1931, Russia, Moscow, State Borodino War and History Museum, 91x161Skirmish between the Brooklyn 14th and 300 Rebel Cavalry sic. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings, Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 84th (1861-1864) , Antietam, Battle of, Md, 1862, Cavalry, Confederate, 1860-1870, Zouaves, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns & battles, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Casualties, United States, Maryland, SharpsburgUS Civil War. Confederate Tennessee Campaign, Oct. 1 Nov. 30, 1864. Battle of Allatoona Pass was fought on Oct. 5, 1864. After giving up the defense of Atlanta, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood, moved northwest to threaten the Union railroad supply line from Chattanooga to Atlanta. Hood's 3,200 troops attacked a Union supply depot garrisoned by 2,000 soldiers and was repulsed (BSLOC_2018_9_81)German world War Two postcard showing the German army in action in France 1940Irish Brigade Charge. American 19th Century, Civil War Battle, 1861 or after Civil War BattleThe battle of Pittsburgh, Tenn. April 7th, 1862. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0476. Grant, Ulysses S, (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885, Military service, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns & battles, Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn, 1862.General Benjamin Harrison, "Come On Boys", Battle of Resaca, May 13th to 16th 1864, Illustration Published by Kurz and Allison, 1888Napoleon Bonaparte, Retreat from Russia in Winter, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century originalExecution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota. USA. December 25, 1862. Engraving, Frank's Leslie's.Washington Raising 1st American Flag in Boston by Hy Hintermeister, 1776, 1897-1972In July 1936, Nationalist forces advance on Leon, during the Spanish Civil War. León joined the war against the Republicans.In the front parallel before Port Arthur , Trench warfare, Soldiers, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905Yermak's Conquest of Siberia 1899 by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov 1848-1916. The conquest of Siberia began in July 1580 when some 540 Cossacks under Yermak Timofeyevich invaded the territory of the Voguls, subjects to Küçüm, the Khan of Siberia.Battle of Veracruz, General Scott's troops attacking and capturing the city, 1847, by Carl Nebel (1805-1855), engraving by Jean Baptiste Bayot Adolphe (1810-1866). Detail. Mexican-American War, Mexico, 19th century. .In the front parallel before Port Arthur , Trench warfare, Soldiers, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905Foxhunting: Road Riders or Funkers, Richard Barrett Davis, 1782-1854, British, 1840, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 11 x 30 inches (27.9 x 76.2 cm), animals, costume, hills, horses (animals), hunters, landscape, recreation, riders, horseback, riding, sporting artAn incident at the Battle of Isandlwana (Isanhlwana). Lieutenants Melvill and Coghill (24th Regiment) dying to save the Queens colours. 22 January, 1879. Zulu War. After painting by C.E. FrippMajor General George McClellan on horseback, during the USA Civil War - Union ArmyThis 1899 image shows Captain Wilkes discovering the Antarctic continent. From 1838 to 1842, Wilkes commanded an exploring and surveying expedition that took him ultimately into theAntarcticOcean and along theAntarcticbarrier, where he reported land at a number of points in the region subsequently known asWilkesLand.COLOCACION DE CORBATAS DE LA REAL ORDEN DE SAN FERNANDO - GRABADO SIGLO XIX. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA-GRABADOS BLANCO Y NEGRO. MADRID. SPAIN.Vintage Photograph. The first gentleman of Virginia from paintingNorway and Sweden, 1865. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Norway, SwedenThe Battle of Mobile Bay, Admiral Farragut aboard the Hartford ordering 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!,' August 5, 1864, from The New York TimesAmerican Civil War 1861-1865. Chattanooga Campaign: Battle of Missionary Ridge, 25 November 1863. Union forces under Grant defeated Confederate army under Bragg. Print sponsored by McCormick Harvesting Co., 1886.The 1917 caption reads: Robinson ran to the white prisoner and cut his bonds. Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English novelist Daniel Defoe and published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, it tells the tale of an English castaway named Robinson Crusoe (here seen saving a man from a group of cannibals) who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela before he was rescued.British victories at Inkerman 1854, Sebastopol 1855 and Tel-el-Kebir (Sudan) 1882 Date: 1854 - 1882Irish troops attacking German positions at Guillemont, September 1916. The image depicts Irish soldiers engaging in fierce hand-to-hand combat at a machine-gun post which survived the Allied artillery bombardment prior to the attack. The Battle of Guillemont began on 3rd of September 1916 as part of the greater British offensive which began with the Battle of the Somme in July of that year. Date: 1916''The Rebellion of Dinizulu, son of Cetewayo, in Zululand-The relief of N'Dwandwe(after Usibpu's defeat by Dinizulu)--Novel duties for the 6th Dragoons: carrying babies across the black Umvoloost', From, 'The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888'.Washington with Troops. This 1899 image shows Captain Wilkes discovering the Antarctic continent. From 1838 to 1842, Wilkes commanded an exploring and surveying expedition that took him ultimately into theAntarcticOcean and along theAntarcticbarrier, where he reported land at a number of points in the region subsequently known asWilkesLand.World War I (1914-1918). Italian troops defending their positions against the enemy using stones. 1917.Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) (centre with walking stick), the Anglo-American journalist and explorer, and his companions leaving a dense forest, Central Africa. The original caption read: ''After one hundred and sixty days' continuous gloom, we saw the light of broad day shining all around us, and making all things beautiful...The men literally yelled and leaped for joy, and raced over the ground with their burdens.' - Extract from one of Mr. Stanley's letters'. Painting titled 'The retreat of the French in 1812' by Illarion Pryanishnikov. Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov (1840-1894) a Russian painter.Woodcut illustration showing Japanese and Russian cavalry troops on horseback fighting each other. The battle took place near Chonju, North Pyongan Province, Korea. Dated 1904.True sons of freedom - digital file from original item | Library of CongressThe Siege of Tsingtao was the attack on the German-controlled port of Tsingtao (now Qingdao) in China during World War I by Imperial Japan and the United Kingdom. It took place between 31 October and 7 November 1914 and was fought by Imperial Japan and the United Kingdom against Germany. It was the first encounter between Japanese and German forces, and also the first Anglo-Japanese operation during the war.Camp, 1873, by Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908), oil on wood, 24x37cm.Passing in review , Military parades & ceremonies, Military personnel, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United StatesUsa, Tn, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Point Park. Man looking at large scale painting of battle by James Walker (MR)ATTACK ON NEW ULM, 1904, by Anton Gag, painting, oil on canvas. New Ulm was attacked twice during the Dakota War of 1862, on August 19-22, 1862. The town had enough warning to establish simple defenses against the unorganized attack of about 100 insurgent Native Americans (BSLOC_2018_8_8)The Lexington of 1861. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3754. Campaigns & battles, Maryland, Baltimore, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns & battles.