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Historic Military Encampments

Etchings depicting army camps, battles, and military processes from the past, illustrating soldier life and historical conflicts.

Cossack camp, Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1813, print maker
Cossack camp, Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1813, print maker
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Attack on Muiden by General Kalckreuth, 1787, Jacob Willem Strunck, after Maas van Altena, 1792 print Attack on the city of Muiden by the Prussian troops under General Friedrich Adolf von Kalckreuth, defended by Amsterdam shooters under Colonel Mattha, October 1, 1787. In the foreground the Prussia, in the background the bombing of the city. Part of a group of seven prints of the fighting with the Prussian troops around Amsterdam in 1787. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving bombardment Others
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Battlefield in a forest with a man putting his head on the chest of a fallen soldier. .
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Card -playing soldiers, Charles Billoin, After Jean Baptiste Madou, 1850 print paper. etching / letterpress printing card games. guard duty, keeping sentry
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Designation for the plate representing a look at the city of Antwerp Den Tomorrow van den 28 October 1830. Key to the print of General Chassé surrounded by the members of the Defense Derfensie der Citadel, standing in the Citadel of Antwerp, on October 28, 1830 daily After the bombing of the city. Presentation in contours with the names 1-61 at the bottom of five columns.
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Conquest from Ambon, 1606. The conquest of Ambon, May 1606. Dutch ships garnish the Portuguese fort on the island of Ambon. The local population flight.
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Heroic death of Woltemade at Kaap de Goede Hoop, 1773, Nicolaas van Frankendaal, 1775 print Heroism of the South African livestock visor Wolraad Woltemade during rescuing his paard of fourteen shipwrecks from the wreck of the ship d'on Jonge Thomas in the branding off the coast of Cape of Good Hope, June 1, 1773. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching / engraving shipwreck. drowning, shipwrecked person. saving a person from drowning Cape of Good Hope
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Battle of De Geuzen, 1566, 1830 - 1876 print Geuzen in the fight against oppression, 1566. Men gathered around the body of a man who fell into the battle. A preacher calls on the Bible and cannon to battle. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: The Hague paper battle
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No, of the series Nordic War Seat, overall view of Stockholm, left half of the picture, Unknown
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Soldiers in a fight for a fort; Terga Premens Spumantis Equi Dux Praemia Pugnae / Agerat et praedas undior Ferre Jubet. At the front right an officer on horseback and two soldiers. One of them raises a kit. At the rear left a fort for which fought. Title under show. The scene is caught in an ornament edge.
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Repair of a Ship at Low Tide, plate four from Six Marines Made 1833 France. Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper . Eugène Isabey
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The Battle of the Pictures 1745 William Hogarth British. The Battle of the Pictures 397855
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Place de la Bastille 26 May 1871 - The oil boats under the vault of the canal./paris in 1871-Canal St Martin. (IT)
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View of Slaughter Pen at Battle of Gettysburg; Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882); 1862; Albumen silver print
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1913. text. 1911 - 1913. General Research Division. Art , Poland
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Drowning of Prince Johan Willem Friso, 1711. Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau, drowned during the crossing of the Moerdijk during heavily again on July 14, 1711. The boots on which the carriage of the Prince stands capsist and several people and horses to water. Signature at the top right: PL. LXII.
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Sea battle at Malaga, 1704; II.RE POSITION DU Combat de Malaga. Entre L'Armée Naval de France, Commandée Par Le Comte de Toulouse et La Flotte Comtée d'Angleterre et de Hollande, aux Ordles de l'Admiral Rooke and 1704. Sea battle at Malaga where a combined English-state fleet under the smoke and Callenburgh de Victory obtained on the French under the Count of Toulouse, August 24, 1704. Second show.
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Germantown Battle.. Koellner, Augustus (b. 1813). Prints. 1830. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Germantown, Battle of, Philadelphia, Pa., 1777
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Remembrance of July 1830. / sells for the benefit of widows and wounded (IT)
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Victorious Advance of Genl. Sykes (regulars) May 1st. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Sykes, George, 1802-1880, Military service, Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va, 1863, Troop movements, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns & battles, United States, Virginia, Chancellorsville , V Corps, 2nd Division.
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No. 129 / Attack of the National Convention; Memorable day of the 13 vendémiaire. / Year 4th of the French Republic. (IT)
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Murder of the Protestants in Sens, 1562, 1565 - 1573 print Murder of the Protestants in Sens, April 1562. Soldiers kill, plunder and destroy the city. In the foreground, bodies float into the water. Press the caption with a cache. paper etching massacre ~ war Sens
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Sea fight between Hollanders and French in the North Sea (plate 5), 1694; Neat image, from it between the esquadre Hollandze warships, among the schout by Nagt Hidde de Vries: and Agt Franssen, under the Capiteyn Jan Bart; Prevented in the North Sea, the 29. Juny 1694. Dynized the daring changes, in addition to the names of the Capiteynen, in fourteen plates. Seafight between Hollanders and French in the North Sea. Plate No. 5 In a series of 14 numbered plates of a sea fight Haltered between a Dutch squadron under Hidde Sjoerds de Vries and French ships under Jan Bart on the North Sea, June 29, 1694.
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Explosion of the Powder of Grenelle / 14 Fructidor, year 2.
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. Battij on the outside Bullewijk. Part of a series of fourteen plates (the thirteenth print is missing), copied to the first series of plates of the defenses constructed by the patriots around Amsterdam at the time of the raid of the Prussian troops in September 1787.
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General La Fayette supported on the Marechaux Lukner and Rochambeau beatings takes the moon with teeth. (IT)
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Bare Steel. This image depicts a hand-to-hand struggle in a rice field on Luzon, drawn by Coast Guard Combat Artist Norman Millet Thomas.
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Publius Vitellius robberies by flood, Johann Wilhelm Kaiser (I), 1840 - 1884 print In the year 17, the Roman army commander Publius Vitellius attracts his second campaign in Germania with his troops along the beach and is attacked by storm and flood. Vitellius points the road to the dry from his white horse. Yet in the end many of his soldiers were killed. paper steel engraving storm. flood
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Spare cartridges. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Forage, 1860-1870, Soldiers, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Casualties, United States
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Rémilly near Metz / August 1870 (registered title) | The third invasion. War of 1870-1871. (title of all)
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Bliżej Kultury Franz Hanfstaengl Kunstverlagsanstalt (Monachium), Hanfstaengl (Hanfstängl), Franz (1804 1877)
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The massacre of Wyoming. Conjectural works. 1859. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Wyoming Massacre, 1778, Iroquois Indians , Pennsylvania , Wyoming , 1770-1779, Massacres, Massacres , Pennsylvania , Wyoming , 1770-1779
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THE HERZEGOVINIAN INSURRECTION: ACTION BETWEEN TREBINJE AND RAGUSA, 1876
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Prussian patrol in Saint-Cloud.
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Norway and Sweden, 1905-1909. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Norway, Sweden
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A Dutch soldier on guard at the Citadel of Antwerp, November-December 1832 Part of a series of twenty sheets from 1833 depicting the military intervention of the French Northern Army in Belgium in 1832, Dutch Guard, 1832 Sentinelle Hollandaise Int, print maker: Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, (mentioned on object), printer: Gihaut frères, (mentioned on object), publisher: Gihaut frères, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1832 - 1833, paper, h 340 mm - w 245 mm
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The siege of Otschakow Otschakiw on the Black Sea on December , map and picture, Johann Thomas Edler von Trattner -, publisher
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Bagveld van Waterloo, H. Gérard (Possible), 1842 Face over the battlefield of Waterloo with visitors and various monuments. Part of an album with twelve plates with faces from around 1840-1846 of the area where the Battle of Waterloo took place on June 18, 1815. Numbered at the top right: No. 6. Brussels paper Waterloo. Leeuw van Waterloo Face over the battlefield of Waterloo with visitors and various monuments. Part of an album with twelve plates with faces from around 1840-1846 of the area where the Battle of Waterloo took place on June 18, 1815. Numbered at the top right: No. 6. Brussels paper Waterloo. Leeuw van Waterloo
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The War balloon at General M'Dowell's head-quarters preparing for a reconnoissance / sketched by Ed. Pietsch.. Illus. from: Harper's weekly, 1861 Oct. 26, p. 679. Balloons (Aircraft), 1860-1870, Military reconnaissance, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities.
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FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR: ENTRY OF THE CASTLE OF SCHAFFENBOURG, ON THE GEISBERG AFTER THE BATTLE OF 4 August 1870
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Inflating the cemetery of the Van der Capellen family, 1788; 't Jumping from the grave from Capellen. Blowing up with gunpowder from the family grave of the Van der Capellen family in the Gorsselse Veld at Zutphen, August 7, 1788. Signature at the top right: XXI.d.pl.ix.
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Raid on a sand-swallow colony--'How many eggs' , Dunes, Foraging
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Sketches with Co. B, 8th Reg. Pa. Ma. under the officers of the old Southwark Gaurd sic in Harrisburg, Pa. / J. Queen del.. Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Guards, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1860-1870, Night, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1860-1870, Railroad stations, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1860-1870, Sleeping, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.
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Excerpt from the Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung No, of January , page , From the Balkan Warf scene page with photos, King Nikolaus I of Montenegro, commander -Gorge, Montenegrin ammunition boxes and carts, Unknown
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1913. text. 1911 - 1913. General Research Division. Art , Poland
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Artillery and soldier pieces in front of the Saint-Ouen gate barricade. Paris (18th arr.). Photograph by Henri Langerock. Albumin paper draw. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 123099-16
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AMBUSH OF ARCHERS AT POITIERS
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The War balloon at General M'Dowell's head-quarters preparing for a reconnoissance / sketched by Ed. Pietsch. | Library of Congress
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. The rescue by the Naerebout brothers of the 87 persons from the stranded VOC ship desert garden (Woestduyn) on July 25, 1779 at the Noorderrassen, for the Zeeland coast. With a long caption that starts with: sees! There the ship will go desert garden.
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Union soldiers at Point Lookout, Tennessee. Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress, Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C, 2013-2014. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, Flags, American, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, 1860-1870.
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Reproductory van a surprise in a chateau door Édouard Detaille, Anonymous, After Edouard Detaille, c. 1871 - in or before 1876 photomechanical print paper painting, drawing and the graphic arts. the soldier; the soldier's life (+ during the battle)
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Plate XXI from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, Julio Paschale, Woodcut on paper, Machien for clearing shallow water of rocks. A raft on barrels, with a winch turned by two men. Left, large comb attached to the rope, pulled toward the raft. The raft anchored to opposite shores by two other winches, with two men each. Description in Latin on verso of 1949-152-217., Europe, 1582, Print, Print
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Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down sheep and effects of gunpowder. Man cutting hops, women and children picking off the hops in Farnham 19, shepherd with flock of sheep on the South Downs 20, and explosion at a gunpowder mill in Battle, Sussex 21. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylors Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865.
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Goorkha Soldiers and Family. Philip Henry Egerton (British, active 1860s)
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General Tatsumi's column storming Peony Hill, in or after 1894 - in or before 1895 photomechanical print Japan paper collotype troop movements, transportation. charge ~ battle
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IM Kampf UM Die Burgbastei no, of the series vonnyn de Hooghe Zu , Romeyn de Hooghe -, artist, Nicolaes Visscher II, Publisher
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Exercities with a cannon: firing a cannon, Jacques Callot, 1635 print Two soldiers are left of a cannon. One of them holds a burning wick at the inflammatory mechanism. This print is part of a series of 12 (13 incl. Title print) prints with performances of military (weapon) exercises. On most of those prints there are three soldiers in different postures with a certain weapon or instrument. print maker: Nancypublisher: Paris paper etching handling of weapons ~ military training. firearms: cannon
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Firing the Canon, plate twelve from The Military Exercises Published 1635 France. Etching on paper . Jacques Callot
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Photo production of the painting 'Une Alerte (Guerre de 1870-1871)' by Léon Couturier, Goupil & Cie., After Léon Couturier, in or after 1879 - in or before 1882 photomechanical print paper the soldier; the soldier's life France