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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.
Crimean War 1853-1856: Siege of Sebastopol - Taking the Malakoff Redoubt 8 September 1855.
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Under enemy fire. heroic and devoted collect the dead body of their captain during Italo-Turkish War, 1912
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A British 6 inch trench mortar bombarding a strong point in the enemy's line during the new British advance over the old Somme battlefields in 1918. This particular illustration by Charles de Grineau shows an incident at Bray-sur-Somme. Date: 1918
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Pioneer settlers ploughing under guard. Date: early 19th century
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Artillery Gunners share Candy after Battle.
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Bridges in Landkreis Meißen, Elbe in Saxony, 1. Königlich Sächsisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 12, 1906, Landkreis Meißen, Karpfenschänke, 1. Pionier, Bataillon Nr. 12, Kriegsmäßiger Brückenschlag, Germany
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Medieval cannon during a siege. Circa 14th century. Leibig collector card. 1900
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DA-SC-85-00954. Country: Unknown
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Firemen attempt to control a fire in the London Blitz during the Second World War. Date: January 1941
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Artwork: "Infantry in Wooded Area," 1945. Artist: A. Hierl. Catalog Number: G.W.1.3096.47. US Army Art Collection. Country: Unknown
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illustration of a fur trading station in Canada, from a set of school posters used for social studies, c 1930
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Artwork: "Dispatch Courier". Artist: Elk Eber. Catalog Number: G.O.1.1339.47. US Army Art Collection. Country: Unknown
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Third Battle of Pleven, 1877. Detail. Russo-Turkish War, Bulgaria, 19th century.
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JANUARY 1918 LITERARY DIGEST COVER AMERICAN SIGNAL CORPS ESTABLISHING RADIO COMMUNICATIONS ON FRONT LINES OF BATTLE WORLD WAR I
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English brigade entering the village of Neuve Chapelle, near Calais, after the clashes of March 1915. World War I, France, 20th century.
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Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898) against Spain. Spanish troops at the time of rollcall in Colon (Cuba). 1896. Colored engraving.
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The Japanese army under Major General Fukushima advancing with the allied armies toward T'ien-chin, China
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Confederate Infantry, 1863, U.S. Army
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Infantry Attacked by Indians, 1876, U.S. Army
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Cavalry Charge. Artist: Henry Merwin Shrady (American, New York 1871-1922 New York). Dimensions: 53 1/2 x 102 x 44 in. (135.9 x 259.1 x 111.8 cm). Date: 1902-16, cast 1924.While still at work on "George Washington at Valley Forge" (1974.9), Shrady entered a competition for a monument to General Ulysses S. Grant. It was eventually erected in Washington, D.C., in 1922, twenty years after the competition, and two weeks after the artist's death. "Cavalry Charge" is one of the subsidiary groups of this monument to Grant. Depicting a cavalry squad on the battle field, it stands to the right of the central figure, Grant on horseback, at the far north end of the platform, while an artillery company is placed at the south end. Each detail, from the leader's raised sword to the fallen trooper's pained expression, is faithfully reproduced in keeping with Shrady's adherence to accuracy. The artist observed numerous military maneuvers in order to achieve this high degree of realism. This example i
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Cartoon, The Harvest of War, showing a German general with his head bowed on a battlefield, while the ghosts of dead soldiers march past with agricultural implements, in the early weeks of the First World War. Date: September 1914
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Russia, 1802-1805. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Russia
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The Bivouac, by Fattori Giovanni, 18th Century, 1873, oil on board, cm 24 x 37
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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.
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Long Live the 3-million man Red Army, Apsit, A.
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The Abyssinian Expedition': Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-90) British soldier, leading the attack on Magdala, April 1868, when he defeated Emperor Tewodros II. Coloured lithograph from sheet music c1868. Composer John Pridham.
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Men Wanted for the Army, U.S. Army
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Comrade Kim Il Sung, commands at Battle of Pochonbo, in northern Korea on 4 June 1937. Korean and Chinese guerrillas commanded by Kim Il-sung (or possibly Choe Hyon) attacked and defeated a Japanese detachment during the anti-Japanese armed struggle in Korea.