Historic Military Battles and Charges

Depictions of significant historical military engagements, featuring cavalry charges and infantry confrontations from various wars, rendered in detailed art.

Crimean War 1853-1856: Siege of Sebastopol - Taking the Malakoff Redoubt 8 September 1855.

Historical postcard with a war motif, attacking Prussian troops, Germany, 1890 / Historische Postkarte mit Kriegsmotiv, Angriff auf preussische Truppen, Deutschland, 1890, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814). Napoleonic wars. Siege of Girona, 1809. "Defense of the Gironella tower", by Spanish painter Cristobal Montserrat i Jorba (1869-1935). This tower was part of the fortification. Museum of the Army. Madrid. Spain.

Crimean War 1853-1856: Siege of Sebastopol - Taking the Malakoff Redoubt 8 September 1855.

World War I (1914-1918). Three German soldiers (Central Powers) hiding to attack Russian cavalry scouts (Allies). Kutno, Poland. Engraving. La Esfera, 1915.

The defeat of the tsarist army in Galicia. Attempts by officers to delay the stampede of soldiers. Drawing. I. Vladimirova

French soldiers during world war one

GUERRA RUSO JAPONESA-JAPONESES ATACAN LAS TRINCHERAS RUSAS. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE.

Serbian artillery withdraw and re-position during a campaign in World war One 1915

India. Sepoy Rebellion (1857). India revolution that erupted as a reaction against British colonial policy. In 1857 the sepoys revolted and deprived of all authority to the East India Company (1858). Charging the British Cavalry in Lucknow, 1857. Drawing by Stanley L. Wood. Ilustracio_n Ibe_rica, 1898.

GUERRA RUSO JAPONESA-EN LAS TRINCHERAS DE PORT ARTHUR,MUERTE HEROICA DEL TENIENTE RUSO ALEXANDER. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

1st World War, village near Lviv defended by Russians is stormed by German troops (original text from 1915, original colouring), illustration, reproduction of a 19th century original. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, Historical, Soldiers are engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand combat, surrounded by smoke and chaos. Violence and despair characterise the scene

British Artillery in Kimberley. Second Anglo-Boer, South African, 20th century.

The Cambridge Dragoons of Hanover fighting a Prussian force at the Battle of Langensalza, 27 June 1866, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reprod...

'French Artillery Crossing the River Aisne, September, 1914', 1915 (1928). Artist: John Charlton.

German world War Two postcard showing an attack by German forces on a town in Russia

Closeup of Crédit Commercial de France - 1918 Poster for War Loan - Fighting in the trenches

GRABADOS. AUTOR: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. SERIE: LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA.

War of Libya or Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912). Conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Italy. Occupation of Misurata. July 8, 1912. Engraving of La Domenica del Corriere, Italy.

La invasion de los bárbaros 1887. By Ulpiano Checa April 3; 1860 January 5; 1916) was a Spanish painter. Invasion of the Barbarians or The Huns approaching Rome

Fighting in the open country in the early months of World War One, before trench warfare turned the Western front into a stalemate. 1919

Russia, 1897. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Russia

Italian soldiers crossing the Austrian border. By Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), illustration from La Domenica del Corriere, June 1915.

Third day of the siege of Monterrey during Mexican War

World War Two: Patriotic Russian war postcard depicting Russian soldier fighting several Germans as he falls to the ground

The bullets of the skirmishers rained upon the advance during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War

Battle of Slivnitsa, November 19, 1885. Serbian-Bulgarian War, Bulgaria, 19th century.

German cuirassiers at Poupry, 2 December 1870, (1936). Creator: Unknown.

Earthquake in Calabria, by Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), from La Domenica del Corriere, 1907.

Illustration of a large scale German infantry attack on British positions in World War One. Dated 1914

General Marchand wounded and being carried to the rear while Colonel Tinan and the II Spahis regiment give him military honors. World War I, France, 20th century.

World War 1, Battles continue between the Rawka and Sucha rivers, all of which are decided in favour of the German troops. Picture shows the battle for a Russian battery, which is helped by a Cossack detachment (original text from 1915, original colouring), illustration, reproduction from a 19th century original. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, historical, horsemen and soldiers fighting in the snow next to a cannon

The heroism of our own: an officer saves a soldier during the Italian Turkish War, circa 1912

World War I (1914-1918). Attack of the allied troops in the area of Verdun. The British infantry in attack in La Baisselle to remove a German infiltration. Drawing Color in 'La Domenica del Corriere'.

Swedish soldiers carrying the corpse of Charles XII, who died at Fredrichshall in Norway according to G. O. Cederström. A clipping of ears 1880 (1) 24 25 Thiriat, Henry, Cederström, Gustaw Olaf (1845 1933)

1st World War, from the battles around Reims, there is no obstacle for the brave field grey (original picture text from 1915, original colouring), illustration, reproduction from a 19th century original. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, Historical, Soldiers crossing a river with rifles at the ready in a warlike scene

Switzerland, 1875-1909 part 1. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Switzerland

Battle of Port Arthur by Pyotr Pavlovich Karyagin, oil on canvas, 1910, 1875-after 1928, Russia, St Petersburg, State Central Artillery Museum, 194x335

The battle for the town of Eparges April 1914. after the initial advance into France had been halted, the Germans once again went on the offensive, capturing land south of Verdun, an area that would be known as the St. Miheil Salient. The Germans strongly fortified the Butte des Eparges to the east of the town of Eparges.

Boer War, British soldiers tend to the wounded Boers after a battle, South African War (1899-1902), Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period, Boer War, British soldiers tend to the wounded Boers after a battle, South African War (1899-1902), Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period

The Somme front, 1916, by Jean-Louis Lefort (1875-1954), watercolour. World War I, France, 20th century.

BOER AMBUSH Boer guerillas attack a British supply column

The Battle of Volochaevka was an important battle of the Far Eastern Front in the latter part of the Russian Civil War. It occurred on February 10 through 12, 1922, near Volochaevka station on the Amur Railway, on the outskirts of the city of Khabarovsk. (A painting by E.O.Mashkevich)

Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905: Russian attack on the Japanese trenches outside Port Arthur. From 'Le Petit Journal', Paris.

German field guns in action during World War One. A masked battery, screened by foliage, opening fire. From The Illustrated War News published 1914

Scotland Forever C. 1888 World History/Great Britian

Before the attack. Near Plevna. Artist V. Vereshchagin. The siege of Plevna, or siege of Pleven, was a major battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, fought by the joint army of Russia and Romania against the Ottoman Empire.

Guerra Ruso-Japonesa (1904-1905). Derrota del ejército ruso en la batalla de Wa-Fang-Kan ante los japoneses. Cromo de Chocolates Amatller. Año 1905. Author: Apel·les Mestres Oñós.

Near the cemetery, Gettysburg retiring disabled artillery, 1863 July 1-3, drawing on tan paper pencil and watercolor, 23.6 x 36.3 cm. (sheet), 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, US

Russia, 1897. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Russia

Painting depicting British soldiers shouting their war-cry as they charged the beach by Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton (1865-1888) British artist. Dated 1880

General Stonewall Jackson at the First Battle of Bull Run August 17 1861 Artist H.A. Ogden

Hauling the Guns up Coles Kop - The men of "B" Company, Essex Regiment, Thirty men to each rope, ninety in all, dragging the guns to the top of Koles Kop, 1400 feet above the plain. Second Boer War

Hand to hand fighting as British troops attack German defenders of Chateau d'Hooge near Ypres Belgium 1915 From The War Illustrated Album deLuxe published London 1916

Colonial expedition in Tonkin, illustration taking from Journal des Voyages, 1906. China, 20th century.

Le Triomphateur 28th September 1915. French soldiers carry a wounded comrade through a trench.

Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Rendición de tropas alemanas ante soldados escoceses tras la batalla de Langemark, Flandes, en ocubre de 1914.

Argentina. Peasants with their tumbrils. 1849. Colored engraving.

Battle of Nanking 1937

The Great Advance. Royal Horse Artillery, Cavalry Division, crossing the Vaal during the second Boer War. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke, published 1900.

Primera guerra europea (1914-1918). Ataque alemán de un reducto en Suabia. Años 1920.

The Enemy Routed by the Highlanders in the Offensive near Ypres, World War I

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916). British officer. Engraving by P. Meaulle. Withdrawal of the British forces in the Sudan. Anglo-Sudan War. The Illustration, 1885. Colored.

Third War of Independence - Prince Amedeo of Savoy wounded at the Battle of Custoza, 24 June 1866, painted by Giovanni Fattori, 1825-1908, oil on canvas, 1868-1870, detail

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Landing of Japanese troops in Chemulpo. Engraving. Colored.

Bavaria, Bavarian Army, Riding Artillery in Action, Germany, ca 1900, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, exact ...

1st World War, Overcoming terrain difficulties during ammunition transport and horse transport in Tyrol (original picture text from 1915, original colouring), illustration, reproduction from a 19th century original. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, Historical, Soldiers transporting a horse over a snow-covered precipice with ropes. The scene shows exertion and danger

In Training. Karl Hagedorn (1889-1969). Oil on panel. Dated 1940. 30.5 x 76cm

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916). British officer. Engraving by P. Meaulle. Withdrawal of the British forces in the Sudan. Anglo-Sudan War. The Illustration, 1885. Colored.

Maltsev, Pyotr Tarasovich (1907-) State Central Military Museum, Moscow 1958 Oil on canvas Soviet Art Russia History

Prussia Expels Austria from Germany - King William I, victorious at Koeniggratz, leads his soldiers on to Vienna

1st World War, Russian wounded transport over the snow-covered heights of Bessarabia, 1915 (original picture text from 1915, original colouring), Illustration, Reproduction from a 19th century original. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, Historical, Russian cavalry riding through snowy mountains in a dramatic historical war scene with movement and intensity

Italo-Turkish War: Battery fire from Cannon No. 149 routing an enemy caravan at Bu-Kamek towards the Tunisian border. Illustrator Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), from La Domenica del Corriere, 7th July 1912.

August 13, 1898, Manila, Philippine IslandsOn April 6, 1898, Congress declared war on Spain and President William McKinley organized United States forces for the "Splended Little War." Of the tens of thousands of regular, volunteer and National Guard (Militia) troops who served, 343 Utah Guardsmen saw service in the Philippine Islands. On May 1st, after the Navy's stunning victory at Manila Bay, McKinley authorized an invasion force to capture the Philippine archipelago from Spain. Organized into two batteries, the Utah "Light" Artillery mustered into federal service on May 9, 1898 at Fort Douglas, Utah. Shortly thereafter, at Camp Merritt near San Francisco, the Utah Artillery became part of Brigadier General Francis V. Greene's brigade of the U.S. VIII Corps under the command of Major General Wesley Merritt.Leaving San Francisco, Greene's brigade first raised the U.S. flag in Guam and then arrived on the island of Luzon on July 17, 1898. In the Philippines, 15,000 Americans

Indian Trading Post Charles Marion Russell (1865-1926 American)

Infantry Attacked by Indians, 1876 Werner Copyright 1899

Sudáfrica. Guerra anglo-boer. Batalla de Spionskop entre tropas inglesas y boers, el 24 de enero de 1900.

Marià Fortuny i Marsal / 'La batalla de Tetuán', 1863-1865, Óleo sobre lienzo, 300 x 972 cm.

Capture of rome

desembarco de los romanos en cala Mesquita, defendida por honderos balearicos, Ana Carreras Capó, Museo Militar de Menorca, antiguo cuartel de Cala Corb, plaza central de Es Castell, construido por los británicos en 1771, Menorca, balearic islands, Spain.

Illustration showing a rain drenched battle scene from the First World War. Circa 1914-1918.

Infantry 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Austria, Rifles, Arms & armament , Austrian, Bicycles & tricycles , Austrian

Patriotic propaganda postcard commemorating the brave Italian attack into Austria Hungary, after agreeing to join the First World War on the Allied side in June 1915. 1916

The Defense of Champigny 1879 Edouard Detaille French In this battle picture, shown in the Salon of 1879, Détaille depicts an incident that he had observed on December 2, 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. General Faron's soldiers are shown fortifying their new position at the town of Champigny-sur-Marne, near Paris, and breaking openings in the wall for cannons. General Faron is at the left, talking to an old gardener. The artist painted a replica of the picture in 1879 (private collection) and returned to the subject for a huge panorama of the battle (now destroyed) that he executed with de Neuville in 1882.. The Defense of Champigny. Edouard Detaille (French, Paris 1848-1912 Paris). 1879. Oil on canvas. Paintings

Shelling of Mont Avron on 27 December 1870 (Franco-Prussian War) 1871 Artist Unknown Chalk lithography Collection of Archiv for Kunst & Geschichte, Berlin, Germany

Napoleon on the Battlefield at Eylau on 9 February 1807, Gros, Baron Antoine-Jean, 1807.

The Second Imperial Prussian Footguard Entering Paris. Hermanus Willem Koekkoek (1867-1929). Oil on canvas. 86.3 x 125.7cm.

Switzerland, 1875-1909 part 1. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Switzerland

First World War (1914-1918). Italian troops defending their positions using hand grenades and bayonets. 1917.

World War One, French cavalry attacked in the Somme, Western Front 1915

Norway, World War 1 - The Battle of Hafrsfjord by Hjalmar Johansen - has traditionally been regarded as the battle in which western Norway, for the first time, was unified under one monarch.

Europa. Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Carga a la bayoneta de un regiminerto escocés. Author: HARRY PAYNE.

Guerra de Marruecos (1911-1927). Legionarios preparando el avance. Dibujo de A. Mestres.

Horse artillery. Delaunay, Jules (1815-1906), painter

Searchlights outline and highlight the shapes of British soldiers during a battle in 1914. world war I

World War 1 - 25th February 1916, French troops prepare to advance north-west of Douaumont towards German positions during the Battle of the Somme, 1916.

Straggling soldiers crossing the Rappahannock above the burnt bridge, 1863 October, drawing on tan paper pencil and Chinese white, 15.4 x 25.7 cm. (sheet), 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, US

The formal surrender of Bloefontein to Lord Roberts by Mr. Pappenfus, Mr. Kellner and Mr. Collins on March 14th, 1900. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke, published 1900.

American Civil War 1861-1865: Battle of Gettysburg 1-3 July 1863 which ended Lee's invasion of the North. Heaviest US casualties than in any other in the war. Oil, 1865/1895 . Edwin Forbes (1839-1895) American artist. Military Artillery

Prussian Army, Guard on the Rendezvous Square with Beer Mugs, Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89, Germany, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, exact date unknownca 1900, Europe

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