Historic Military Units

Vintage photographs of diverse military groups, featuring historical conflicts and cultural representations from various regions and eras.

Touareg chiefs on a visit to Marseilles, 1862, orientalist photography, De Jongh and Bargignac, Albumen, 1862, Photographie de M.M. de Jong et Bargignac Marseilles--printed on mount below image.
Touareg chiefs on a visit to Marseilles, 1862, orientalist photography, De Jongh and Bargignac, Albumen, 1862, Photographie de M.M. de Jong et Bargignac Marseilles--printed on mount below image.
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Belgrade, Serbia a Turkish prisoner in the fortress called "Kalemegdan , 1913 - Balkans - Jean Brunhes and Auguste Léon - (April 23 - June 9) (French - Belgrade , Serbie Un turc prisonnier dans la forteresse dite «Kalemegdan»). Civil war, Balkan wars, portrait, prisoner, fortress, man, Political life, human beings, Serbia, Belgrade, a Turkish Asian prisoner at the Citadel of Belgrade
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Students, private school Burhan-i Terakki / Abdullah Frères, photographes de SMI le Sultan
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. captain Wagete beautifully extinguished Ekari, faded pyama jacket, received police inspector Tigi Lake. November 1953. Guinea, Tigimeer
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Sultan Pasha El-Atrache, one of the agitators against the French during the war against the Druze in Syria, is now a refugee in Trans Jordan from where he leads the Arab population of Palestine.
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India: 'This Soldier is Defending India', First World War recruitment poster, The Times Press, Bombay. The Indian Army during World War I contributed a large number of divisions and independent brigades to the European, Mediterranean and the Middle East theatres of war in World War I. Over one million Indian troops served overseas, of whom 62,000 died and another 67,000 were wounded. In total at least 74,187 Indian soldiers died during the war.
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Wounded soldiers on their way to hospitals at Dalny. Wounded soldiers on their way to hospitals at Dalny
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Desert warrior of Africa, 1936.Artist: Fox Photos
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Knights of the Dead Sea, vintage engraving. Knights of the Dead Sea, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, 1880-81. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10657214
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Colonel Lawrence with King Feisal. January 28, 1955.
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A Japanese cavalry hostler , Soldiers, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
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Yanbu, Arabia entrance to the gendarmerie , 1918 - Near East, Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (January 9 -October 6) (French - Yanbu , Arabie Entrée de la gendarmerie). Costume, calligraphy, public civil architecture, hospital, accessory, architectural inscription, door, weapon, belt, hairstyle , headgear, Clothing, art, housing , architecture, registration , information, Arabia, Yambo, the gendarmerie
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Kathiri was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now officially considered part of Yemen and the Dhofar region of Oman. The Kathiris once ruled much of Hadhramaut but their power was truncated by the rival Qu'aitis in the 19th century. The Kathiris were eventually restricted to a small inland portion of Hadhramaut with their capital at Seiyun (Say'un). The sultanate entered into treaty relations with the British in the late 19th century and became a part of the Aden Protectorate. The Kathiri State declined to join the Federation of South Arabia but remained under British protection as part of the Protectorate of South Arabia. Al Husayn ibn Ali, Kathiri sultan since 1949 was overthrown in October 1967 and, the following month, the former sultanate became part of newly independent South Yemen which united with North Yemen in 1990 to become the Republic of Yemen, but about 65% of its territory, including Hadramaut, is not controlled by its gov