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Historical Battle Imagery

Photos depict critical moments of warfare, including battles and the devastation of cities during both World Wars.

Field Guard at field hunter battalion 6.

US Civil War. Siege of Charleston, 1863. Telegraph headquarters at Battery Wagner in the Union trenches of Morris Island, Charleston, South Carolina. Aug.-Sept. 1863 photo by Haas & Peale (BSLOC_2018_8_106)

Men Burning a Field. Original caption: Miscellaneous. 1940-05-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Photo collection First World War. Group of soldiers draws a vessel along a shore .. 1914-1918}

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. The great advance in the west. Reinforcements moving up towards Flers, they are seen crossing the front German Trench which was taken on Sept. 15th 1916. september 1916. Flers, Frankrijk

Second World War. Soviet Union. Battle breaks. Locals and soldiers push a hay car through a muddy ford

Accommodation on the Montozzo.

All use the settings masks, the beasts as people, the column moves on.

Extension shooting of the M.G. Department of the battery.

Dead horses and destruction along a Polish highway after German forces advance into Poland, during the Blitzkrieg. Dated 1939

US Civil War. Overland Campaign, May 4 to June 24, 1864. Gen. Ulysses Grant holds a council of war on June 2, 1864, before the Battle of Cold Harbor. Gen. Ulysses Grant sits near the tree trunks, smoking a cigar. To Grant's right is Col. Frederick Dent, and on his left is Asst. Sec. of War Charles Dana, and then Gen. John Rawlins. Photo by Timothy O'Sullivan (BSLOC_2018_9_128)

Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich Romanov (1877-1943) and his escort to Port Arthur (now Lushunkou), China, Russo-Japanese war, photograph by Leon Bonet, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXI, No 30, July 24, 1904.

Performance of the 1st battalion regiment shock troops in the Dutch East Indies during the 1st police action. Dutch convoy pulls through Goeboeng on the way to Kedungjati.

Towing vehicle for the 30.5 cm mortar. .

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The Stalingrad area. Red Navy men of a landing party of the Volga naval flotilla fighting on shore. November 1, 1942.

Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Asalto a la bayoneta de la infanteria británica cruzando profundas trincheras. Año 1916.

View of part of the position at Prokopiwna.

Background: Links Cima di Vezzana, point 38 mid-levespices, right: Mandriolo. .

'A l'est de Montdidier; la poursuite de l'ennemi en direction de Lassigny et de Roye: groupe cycliste debouchant d'un bois a moins de 500 metres des arriere-gardes ennemies', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Bussy, France , 1917 - Devastated regions, Somme, Oise, Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (September -October) (French - Bussy , France). Agriculture , breeding, work scene, car transport, rural life, field, agricultural equipment, rear, man, Economic activity, daily life, transport, First World War, human beings

Second World War. Holland. March formation and cyclists of the German Wehrmacht on a dike (probably departure for laying to the Ostfront)

Other Project. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Arab demonstration at Yatta Troops on duty with machine guns strung along the road approaching the scene of gathering, West Bank, Yatta

Second World War. Russia, Belgorod Oblast. Battle breaks. Beritten Wehrmacht members on a country road

Anefo photo collection. Ned. Troops liberate Netherlands, sleep German-built Bunkers / Kingdom Dutch Princess Irene Brigade, weapon (flames). February 1945. Nieuwland

An anti-aircraft gun crew guards the sky somewhere in Andreanoff group.

Result of terrorist acts & government measures Irish Guard loading donkies, donkeys with ammunition to follow mountain paths Nablus, Middle East 1938, West Bank

Military exercise with guns in Fontainebleau. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

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