Historic Military Encounters

Engravings depicting significant military events, including the surrender at Bailen, the Zulu king's restoration, and explorations in Africa. The images capture moments of conflict, cultural encounter

Stanley meets Livingstone. Historical legendary meeting between Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone in Africa in 1871, travel and exploration b

Honoré Daumier, Un corps de garde peint par Decamps, 19th century Un corps de garde peint par Decamps

people crossing the Prussian - Saxon border, Germany, original print from the year 1899, Leute, die die Preußen - Sachsen Grenze, Deutschland, überqueren, historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt, koloriert, handcoloriert, Koloration, digital verbessert.

Historia de España. Cerco y asalto de Mallorca en septiembre de 1229 por el rey Jaime I de Aragón (1208-1276).

History of Africa. Doctors in an expedition of European explorers, examining the native blood attacked by sleeping sickness. Engraving by Thiriat. 1903.

The Eastern Question. SerbianOttoman Wars (1876-1878). Serbia declared war on the Ottoman Empire on June 30, 1876. Arrival of a Serbian group of volunteers in a village. Engraving. "La Guerra de Oriente" (The Russo-Turkish War). Volume II. 1877.

Engraving showing the part of the British Army camp responsible for stores and provisions during the Crimean War. By the end of the Crimean war the camp was running smoothly and was well provided for, in contrast to the winter of 1854 when men died of frostbite and malnourishment. Date: 1855

Procession of the British Envoys to Madagascar from the seashore to the Fort of Tamatave to dine with the Governor of Tamatave, 1862. Engraving from a drawing by Lieutenant P. P. Oliver, of the Royal Artillery. 'The Advanced Guard...First marched an advanced guard of between thirty and forty soldiers, without hats, each armed with a spear and a flint musket with bayonet: they had cartouches, cross-belts, waist-belts, and white blouses and trousers. There were two officers in the rear, with attendants carrying their scabbards. In the foreground of this part of the procession are shown male and

Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), War - Prussian reconnaissance groups near Paris; excerpt from a magazine. Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), draughtsman, cartoonist, Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1859-1939), publisher, Nicz, Edward (1851-1916), woodcutter

A group of Zeibeks, Asia Minor, 1895. Artist: Unknown

Timucuan indians declaring war. 16th century. Engraving, 1841.

The Conquest of America (1492-1607). The son of the king El Quibian knocks the Spaniards Diego Mendez and Rodrigo de Escobar after they came into the camp of the indigenous king as spies. Year 1503. Engraving. 19th century.

Daghestan septentrional. Gens du Chamkhal a Kasanistch.. Gagarin, Grigorii Grigorevich, kniaz (1810-1893). Prints, Illustrations. 1847. General Research Division. Caucasus

Historia de Catalunya. Carlos I de España (1500-1558) embarca en Barcelona hacia Italia el 30 de julio de 1528. Cromo de Xacolata Juncosa. Año 1932. Author: Albert Mestre Moragas.

German Peasants' War, 1524-1526, Siege of Salzburg, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

David Livingstone found by Henry Morton Stanley, 28 October 1872 in central Africa. Etching.

Illustration depicting the encampment of the Augeraud camp commander, chief of the Arab Bureau. Dated 1817

Indian sepoys (native Indian troops) prepare rifles during training 1857.

France, 1835 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

German Peasants' War, 1524-1526, Münzer's last speech. Thomas Müntzer, born around 1489, died May 27, 1525) was a theologian, reformer and revolutionary in the time of the Peasants' War, The Last Speech of Müntzer. Thomas Müntzer, born around 1489, died May 27, 1525) was a theologian, reformer and revolutionary in the time of the Peasants' War, historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original original from the 19th century, exact original date not known, subsequently colored

Pyongyang, Korea: wounded Chinese prisoners of war receiving medical treatment after the battle of Pyongyang. Gouache by J.N. Schönberg, 1894.

'Charles le Myre de Vilers, resident general of Madagascar', 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Raising the Red Army Flag, in honor of the proclamation of Soviet power in Tashkent during the Russian Revolution. 1917

GUERRA DE CUBA 1868 - 1898. NOMBRE GENERICO CON EL QUE SE CONOCE LAS TRES GUERRAS POR LA INDEPENDENCIA DE CUBA DE ESPAÑA. " RETORNO DE SOLDADOS A ESPAÑA. SOLDADOS EN EL CUARTEL DE LA CANDELARIA DE CADIZ , 1898 ". GRABADO DE LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

First Franco-Hova War 1883-1886: Charles Le Myre de Vilers, French Resident-General carried across a waterfall. War ended with the Treaty of Tamatave, January 1886. Chromolithograph Colonisation Malagassy Madagascar Trade Card

Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Un convoy de víveres para las tropas austríacas es interceptado y saqueado por el ejército ruso. Author: Francisco Navarrete Sierra.

Cape Verde (19th c.). Portuguese rule. Litography. PORTUGAL. Lisbon. Overseas Historical Archive.

Execution of Jean le Vacher (1619-1683) French missionary died after being attached to a cannon. Algiers, Algeria. 17th century.

Image reproduction: Walery Eljasz Radzikowski (1841-1905), Chodkiewicz near Khotyn, from "Praca" 1900, p. 336; Work. Political and literary weekly Illustrated (Poznan; Magazine; 1896-1924); 1900 (1883-00-00-1883-00-00);

Robert Mabon, died 1798, British, Retreat Beating at Poona, undated. Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Excerpt from the Leipziger Illustrated Zeitung No, of March , page , Archduke Peter Ferdinand interrogated four spies in Russian Poland, After, Wilhelm Gause -, drawer

Discovery of the Sage of Chappaqua by HM Stanely. The sage mysteriously disappears on 5 November 1872. His discovery after a lengthy search in the wilderness by the intrepid explorer Stanley. A caricature by Horace Greeley commenting on his disappearance from public life after his defeat in the presidential election on 5 November, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period..

Cneius Pompeius Magnus, Pompeyo (106-48 a.JC). General y estadista romano que, junto a César y Craso, formó el primer triunvirato (año 60 a.JC). Fué asesinado al desembarcar en Pelusium (Egipto), por un agente de Ptolomeo. Grabado de 1866.

Soldier explorers and Makololo tribe native hunters with a dead lion in South Africa. From Jules Verne 3 Russians and 3 English Book, vintage engraving, 1871.

Slaves crossing a forest of the dead, slave hunters in the Congo in 1868, Africa, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Slave hunt - men on horseback with a dog hunting an escaped slave, circa 1850

Léon Cogniet, Napoleon Bonaparte Surrounded by Scientists and Students in Egypt, C. 1831, chalk and estompe on laid paper.

Nepalese soldiers in Patan, Lalitpur, Kathmandu. Nepal. Asia. Drawing by Edouard Francois Zier (1856 - 1924) Travel to Nepal by Doctor Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) Le Tour du Monde 1886

Great Sioux War of 1876. Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25-26, 1876). Armed engagement between combined forces of the Northern Cheyenne, Lakota and Arapaho tribes and the forces of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, who died on June 25 during the fighting. The American army suffered a great defeat. Five of the main chiefs of the Sioux Indians who prepared the Bighorn ambush on June 25, where Custer died. From left to right: Red Fox, Bearskin, Red Dog, Rocky Bear and Living Bear. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, September 8, 1876.

Monaco, 1865-96, Montenegro, 1876-96, Morocco. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Monaco, Montenegro

The 1890 caption reads: "Pigmies as compared with English officers, Soudanese, and Zanzibaris from photograph by author H M Stanley." It is from H M Stanleys book, In Darkest Africa. Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a British explorer and journalist. In 1871, the New York Herald sent him to Africa to find David Livingstone. On the expedition of 1879-1884, he obtained territorial concessions that led to Belgian acquisition of Congo Free State.

'Guardia Rural Cabana', c1910. Artist: Unknown.

Execution of hostages during Paris Commune revolt, 24 May 1871, engraving

'Sketch from the wall on the morning after the grand attack', China, c1860. Creator: M & N Hanhart.

Warriors in breastplates from Ombai (Ombay) island, Indonesia, 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi after Jacques Etienne Victor Arago from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1834.

Insurgents in 1863. unknown

World War I (1914-1918). Cooks carrying soup to the trenches. Drawing by Georges Leroux (1877-1957). L'Illustration, november 6, 1915. Colored.

Historia de un recluta. Salida del pueblo de los quintos para cumplir sus obligaciones militares. Imprenta Paluzie, 1870. Grabado popular pintado al huevo.

General Gordon was killed by Mahdist forces during the Mahdist War on January 26, 1885. The manner of his death is uncertain but it was romanticised in a popular painting by George William Joy - General Gordon's Last Stand (1885, currently in the Leeds City Art Gallery) - and again in the film Khartoum (1966) with Charlton Heston as Gordon. Gordon was killed around dawn fighting the warriors of the Mahdi. As recounted in Bernard M. Allens article 'How Khartoum Fell' (1941), the Mahdi had given strict orders to his three Khalifas not to kill Gordon. However, the orders were not obeyed. Gordon died on the steps of a stairway in the northwestern corner of the palace, where he and his personal bodyguard, Agha Khalil Orphali, had been firing at the enemy. Orphali was knocked unconscious and did not see Gordon die. When he woke up again that afternoon, he found Gordon's body covered with flies and the head cut off.

Japanese escort officers, 1874. Artist: Unknown

Caricature of a grenadier who has to remain in his post, Edouard de Beaumont, 1843 A French soldier gives an original resident of the Marquise archipelago the instruction to remain at his post as a grenadier. The Grenadier would rather go after his wife, who goes for a walk with a Frenchman's comrade. However, the soldier warns him that he has the right to be shot when he leaves his guard post. Paris paper Australian and Oceanian races (+ caricatured). colonial system. guard duty, keeping sentry Archipelago Marquisas

A Zulu scout of Cetewayo's army Date: 1879

Stanley meeting with his rear column at Banalya. Africa. Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-1889 by Henry Morton Stanley (1841 - 1904) Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1890

French civil engineering corps construct a temporary wooden bridge out of staves and brushwood on a training mission. Date: 1886

Daniel Boone Battling Shawnee Indians Outside Fort at Boonesborough by H. Charles McBarron, 20th Century

Daghestan septentrional. Arrivee a Tsatanykh.. Gagarin, Grigorii Grigorevich, kniaz (1810-1893). Prints, Illustrations. 1847. General Research Division. Caucasus

Turkey, 1821-25. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Turkey

At the Camp des Pupilles de la République

Advanced Turkish sentinels keeping guard during the Russo-Turkish War (1877- 1878). From Russes et Turcs: La Guerre D'Orient, published 1878.

Portada del semanario La Doménica del Corriere, editado en Milán (Italia). Guerra de Marruecos, entrada en Rabat del sultán de Marruecos. Octubre 1907.

Africa. Indigene Ugogo. Man in battle dress. Colored engraving in "El Mundo Ilustrado" 1884.

'General Roberts Reading His Proclamation at Kabul, October 12, 1879', (1901). Creator: Amedee Forestier.

Syria - General Joseph Joffre (1852-1931) inspects weapons taken from Arab 'Hauran' rebel fighters by the controlling colonial French forces. Date: circa 1919

Historia Antigua. Persia. Soldados del ejército persa. Grabado alemán de 1865.

Reception of a Narragansett Warrior by Winthrop

India: 'A Group of Recruits to Skinner's Horse Regiment', William and James Fraser, Delhi, 1815-1816

Indian Lancers (Imperial Army of India), rest by a fire at a farm in Northern France during their advance to the battle front. November 1914

Boxer rebels guarding European diplomats; China 1900. the Boxer Uprising or Yihequan Movement. was a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty. It was initiated by the Militia United in Righteousness (Yihetuan), known in English as the 'Boxers', and was motivated by proto-nationalist sentiments and opposition to imperialist expansion and associated Christian missionary activity.

A military ceremony in the plain of Thessalia, Petrus van Geldorp, 1897 paper warfare; military affairs. political caricatures and satires Thessalia

An Arab Encampment. Leopold Carl Muller (1834-1892). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1880. 74.4 x 122cm.

War in Egypt. The emissaries of Arabi Pasha recruiting soldiers among the tribes to fight against the British. In the background Temple of Horus at Edfu. Colored engraving from 1882.

American P.O.W.

Utensilios y armas indias. Museum: FREE LIBRARY PHILADELPH USA. Author: CHARLES BODMER.

Giving the order, February 24, 1848, painting by Adolphe Leleux. Revolution of 1848, France, 19th century.

The Anglo-Manipur war (1891) saw the conquest of Manipur by British Indian forces and the incorporation of the small Assamese kingdom within the British Raj. Subsequently Manipur became a Princely State under British tutelage.

Fire brigade, Gualtherus Kolff, after Jonkheer Josias Cornelis Rappard, 1868 - 1881 print Leaf with seven performances of fire in a kampong (fenced yard) in the former colony of the Dutch East Indies, around firefighters and extinguishing agents. Under each image a caption in Malays and Dutch. Numbered at the top right: No. 8. publisher: Leidenprinter: Arnhemafter drawing by: Netherlands paper Asiatic races and peoples. extinguishing a fire. firemen Dutch East Indies, The

Guerra de Cuba (1896-1898). Convoy español pasando el río Cauto.

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