Historical Military Battles

A series of dramatic etchings depicting ancient military scenes, including strategizing leaders, fierce battles, and sieges, capturing the intensity of historic warfare.

Tempesta, Antonio, Noordelijke Nederlanden, Mulder, Joseph, Civilis lets his men cross the Maas against the Menapien and Morini, Troops of Civilis cross the Maas, 69-70, Northern Netherlands, Civilis' troops crossing the Meuse. Part of a series of six prints about the Batavian Revolt, copied from the series Batavorum cum Romanis bellum by Antonio Tempesta (Otto Vaenius, Antwerp 1612)., print, prent, historieprent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 220 mm, width 331 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1658-01-11 - 1718, print maker, printmaker, 1682 - 1684, fourth quarter 17th century, vier kwart 17e eeuw, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, Italian, 1555 - 1630-08-05
Tempesta, Antonio, Noordelijke Nederlanden, Mulder, Joseph, Civilis lets his men cross the Maas against the Menapien and Morini, Troops of Civilis cross the Maas, 69-70, Northern Netherlands, Civilis' troops crossing the Meuse. Part of a series of six prints about the Batavian Revolt, copied from the series Batavorum cum Romanis bellum by Antonio Tempesta (Otto Vaenius, Antwerp 1612)., print, prent, historieprent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 220 mm, width 331 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1658-01-11 - 1718, print maker, printmaker, 1682 - 1684, fourth quarter 17th century, vier kwart 17e eeuw, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, Italian, 1555 - 1630-08-05
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Emperor Constantine The Great On Horse; Constantinus der Groisse Keyser. Leaf from a book. Constantine the large and two soldiers on horseback, one of which wears a flag.
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Ferdinand III., Roman-German Kaiser.
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Jan Theodor de Bry (1561-1623), trains of soldiers; Tabbereren in the middle, 1561-1623
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Taking Away the Military Belt or Girdle (John Beaver, Roman Military Punishments, 1725) after 1725 William Hogarth British. Taking Away the Military Belt or Girdle (John Beaver, Roman Military Punishments, 1725) 396294
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Henri IV, roi de Navarre, accompanies the corpse of Henri III, his ally, who has just been assassinated by Jacques Clement, to Poissy. Date: August 1589
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THE SCARLETT TESTIMONIAL TO THE 5TH DRAGOON GUARDS.
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Reproduction of the allegory on the pacification of Ghent, 1576; Pacification of Gend. 1577. Reproduction of the allegory on the pacification of Ghent, 1576. The Dutch lion monitors the entrance gate to the Dutch garden in which the persons settlements of the seventeen provinces are. Spanish soldiers with guns and guns have surrounded the garden. At the bottom of the legend 1-4.
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Christopher Columbus arrives in America; Columbus in India Primo Appellans, Magnis Excipitur Muneribus AB Accolis; India Occidentalis IV. Christopher Columbus arrives in America with his fleet. He is enthusiastically received by the local population and overloaded. A few of his men immediately target a cross on the coast.
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The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving by J. Stow, 1796, after J.B. Rigaud.
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Scene from the siege of Rhodes, Greece, 1480, historical illustration, 1880, Greece, Europe
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Destroying the Hoekse Kastelen, 1350, 1722 - 1750 print The destroying of the Hoekse Castles, in 1350. In the foreground, Cod troops are getting ready to besiege a castle, a castle burns in the distance. Northern Netherlands paper etching Victory, position was Netherlands
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Quarrel between soldiers, 1596 print Four soldiers are at a city gate. There is disagreement and one of them pulls his sword. Behind the group are two other soldiers who are pulled on top of each other with pulled swords. Frankfurt am Main paper engraving the soldier; the soldier's life. defensive measures (military)
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Jacob de Geldersman and Dirk Pietersz. Smuel Op Dam at the Stake, 1546, Jan Luyken, 1693 print Dopers Jacob de Geldersman and Dirk Pietersz. Smuel on the Dam in Amsterdam on Ladders burned at the stake, 1546. Amsterdam paper etching execution of heretic, e.g. by burning at the stake, 'auto-da-fé'. violent death by burning at the stake; pyre City Hall of Amsterdam (14th century-1652). Dam
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Scandinavian cavalry charge across the ice, trumpet blowing, after the artillery bombardment has weakened the opposition from the town Date: 1555
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Opening of the Peace Congress in Utrecht, 1712; The 29 January, Uytrecht on the Stadhuys is the Congress, to deal with a general fee (...). Opening of the peace congress in the town hall in Utrecht, January 29, 1712. Interior in which the peace negotiations are conducted at a round table. With captions in Dutch and Latin. Fragment of a large plate with nine performances of events from the year 1712 of the Spanish Succession War.
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Roman soldiers: Stone slingers and their equipment. Three men all carrying short hand slings, while on ground are sling sticks which gave missiles greater impetus. From Justus Lipsius 'Poliorceticon ...', Antwerp, 1605. Copperplate engraving .
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Armed Soldiers After Battle 1598-1602 Italy. Pen and brown ink over graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper . Unknown Genoese
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Planet ballet. Picture of Mars, storming a fortress
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Engraving depicting the execution of Lamoral, Count of Egmont and Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn during the Spanish tyranny in the Netherlands. The Duke of Alva, who enforced brutal Spanish Roman Catholic rule in the Protestant Netherlands, is pictured on a horse. Dated 16th Century
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Illustration for 'The Labor of Mars' by Allain Manesson Mallet, Romeyn de Hooghe, 1672 print Map of an area with the outlines for a fortress, fort or reinforcement (hexagon). Below that a number of soldiers cheerfully dancing and drinking at a tent. In the corner at the top left the number 63 (= the number of the page in the book on the other hand the illustration has been placed). Amsterdam paper etching fortifications, military engineering. mathematics. landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone). landscape with other man-made constructions not mentioned above, e.g.: graveyards, playgrounds, etc.. soldiers in gay company. (military) camp with tents
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Assassination attempt of Gaspar de Coligny (1519-1572) by means of an attack on 22 August 1572. It was the trigger for the Massacre of St. Bartholomews Day in Paris during the night of 23 to 24 August 1572. A 19th-century engraving after a German original, representing one of the additional sheets in the collection engraved by Jean Tortorel and Jacques Perrissin. Below left is depicted the attack against Coligny by arquebus fire, carried out by Maurevert from a window, and his death during the slaughter. Coligny was killed in his house by Besme, one of Duke Henri de Guise's German officers. He was then defenestrated and subjected to humiliation by being dragged through the streets. In other neighbouring houses Teligny and other Protestants were also massacred. Above left, one of the squires telling King Charles IX, whom he finds playing ball (jeu de paume), the news of the attack on Coligny. "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et à l'Epoque de la Renaissance". Paris, 1877.
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Marskramer, Jost Amman, 1573 print print maker: Neurenbergpublisher: Frankfurt am Main paper warfare; military affairs. the soldier; the soldier's life. pedlar
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Norman soldiers loading suits of chainmail armor, carts laden with helmets, spears and barrels onto ships. Willian, Duke of Normandy, orders soldiers and cavalry to board. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruces The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.
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Woodcut by Hans Burgkmair the Elder, 1504, depicting a portion of the Bohemian battle, illustrating military formations and combat activity in early 16th-century Europe.
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Charles Parrocel, Cavalry Battle Cavalry Battle
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Anonymous artist created a colored pen drawing depicting soldiers and war camps, dated between 1420 and 1430.
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Jacques de Lalaing and his Companions Fighting Scottish Knights before the King of Scots. Master of the Getty Lalaing (Flemish, active about 1530)
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Fourth Crusade (1202-1204). Crusade troops attack Constantinople in 1204. Page 1 from 'Histoire de la conqute de Constantinople' by Geoffroy de Villehardouin (14th c.). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. ‘LE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library.
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At the battle of SLUYS, the English fleet of 200 totally defeats the French fleet of 70, capturing or destroying virtually every vessel Date: 24 June 1340
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Title page: Dutch Ships 1647 Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian Two men standing seen from behind looking at title for series of Dutch ships inscribed on stern of warship in dock in the centre; elderly man seated on barrels of canons smoking pipe on the left sailors, ships, crates, anchors, casks and wharves on left and right.. Title page: Dutch Ships 361525
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Soldiers in battle, miniature from an illuminated Bible, manuscript, end of 13th-beginning of the 14th Century.
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Boys learn how to use a crossbow, practising by aiming at targets. Date: 1555
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Battle of Vienna. nieznany malarz polski, painter
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Engel kills the troops of Sanherib, Hans Holbein (II), 1538 print An angel sent by God kills the Assyrian troops of King Sanherib and helps King Jeechia and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. In the margin above the image is the text II Paralip XXXII 2 Chronicles 32. paper at night, an angel of the Lord decimates the Assyrian camp: 185.000 soldiers are killed