Historical Military Encounters

Dramatic scenes depicting historical military events, including murder, looting, and soldiers in domestic settings. Engravings illustrate turmoil and conflict.

French prisoners of war , Soldiers, Prisoners of war, Dogs. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
French prisoners of war , Soldiers, Prisoners of war, Dogs. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
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And hello! / -Nhon ... PL.18 (registered title) | Military Baliffering. (Title of the whole)
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Fight between soldiers on horseback, Abraham Dircksz. Santvoort, 1666 print In the middle a fight between a few soldiers on horseback. A soldier falls from his horse in the front. In the distance a castle on a hill. At the top right: 2: B. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching the soldier; the soldier's life (+ during the battle). the soldier; the soldier's life (+ cavalry, horsemen). castle
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Black Cat Cigarettes, World war One, propaganda card showing: The beauties (horrors and despair) of War
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LIKE SHIPS UPON THE SEA, DRAWN BY SYDNEY HALL, 1883; As he passed from beneath the archway to where he sat, he crossed a moonlit space, and the rays of light sparkled for an instant on his sword and the silver star on his uniform, and attracted her eye.
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17. Israel's army with a camp in Rafidy; 18. Chest 19. cheb people; Kosicki, Ludwik (1793-1846); 1840 (1840-00-00-1840-00-00);
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REBELLION IN THE NORTHWEST The rebel Nor'-Westers at Fort William Date: 1816
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Album of the 1970 and 1871 Fallen Officers of XII. (Koenigl. Sächs.) Army Corps. frontispiece
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World War I: dressing station orderlies carrying the wounded at a front line dressing station, Villers Bretonneux, 20 April 1918. Gouache by A. Forestier.
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Bagpipers, Scotland, United Kingdom, illustration by Gavarni from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 369, Volume XV, March 23, 1850.
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War of 1870-1871 - The Soup of the Fish Casernee Gustave Golden. War of 1870 - 1871: The soup of the fish barracks.
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Soldiers at grave monument. Two soldiers at a grave monument under a bow behind a gothic church. Numbered in the middle of: No. II.
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18th century military tents: horse or rack to support firelocks 1,2,3, muskets on the rack 4, laboratory tents belonging to the artillery 5, field officers tent or marquis 6. Copperplate engraving from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdale, London, 1812.
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Soldiers at Grafmonument, 1794 - 1851 print Two soldiers at a burial monument under a bow behind a Gothic church. Numbered in the middle: No. Ii. paper the soldier; the soldier's life. grave, tomb. church (exterior)
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The war in pictures. No 27./Wiegers homecoming. (TI)
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Cossack Bodyguards of the Line, Kuban, Taman, Détroit de Yéni-Kaleb, October 9, 1837 Made 1846 France. Lithograph in black on ivory wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper . Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
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American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Militiaman departures toward the battle of Lexington (April 1775), the first armed clashes of the war, under the dismay of his family. A horseman gives him the signal for the battle. Engraving by A. Bobbett. 19th century. Colored.
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FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. PAINTED BY W. HEMSLEY
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Playing Soldier.. Miller & Best
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To the peace preliminaries, The Russian Diplomat General Ignateff and Tsar Alexander II,
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A Startling Announcement 1862 Currier & Ives President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, lies in a curtained bed after being woken by a young Black boy who announces that Union troops have taken Fort Donelson--in the background Conderates are pursued by Union soldiers.The Battle of Fort Henry, February 6, 1862, was the first significant Union victory of the Civil War. In an effort to gain control of rivers and supply lines west of the Appalachians, General Ulysses S. Grant and Commodore Andrew Foote launched an attack on the lightly defended Fort Henry in Tennessee. After a fierce naval bombardment, Confederate Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman secretly evacuated the bulk of his troops to nearby Fort Donelson before surrendering to Union forces. The fall of Fort Henry, followed ten days later by the capture of Fort Donelson, opened up both the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers to Union control, cutting off Confederate access to two key waterways for the remainder of the war.. A Startli
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. Discussions with a small gun The House Leeuwenburg in Middelburg of the patriotic doctor Lucas van Steveninck, in the night of June 30 on July 1, 1787. Residents shoot back from the windows of the house with guns.
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Two Spanish Sailors, Sir William Allan (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1782 - 1850) 1834
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Discussion of Marine Officers about the military strategy against China, 1894 print Japanese navy officers plan how to conquer the yellow sea. This sea battle took place in September 1894, during the first Chinese-Japanese War (1894-1895). paper color woodcut / polishing plan of battle. seaman. officer
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Case printing depicting women saying goodbye to soldiers going to war, dates: XII/1914 and XII/1915 and the text: League of Women's Emergency Service of the Łódź District; B.K., League of Women's Emergency Service of the Łódź District; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);
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Netherlands, 1900-09 part 2. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Netherlands
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The corporal company of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the 'Night Watch'., print maker: Johann Wilhelm Kaiser (I), after: Rembrandt van Rijn, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1863 - 1864, paper, etching, engraving, drypoint, h 582 mm × w 677 mm
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Composite Of Pilots Of The 383Rd Fighter Squadron, 364Th Fighter Group, 67Th Fighter Wing, Based At 8Th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England. 11 January 1945.
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Belgium, Metamorphoses of the day., Récit de la Campagne de Bruxelles, 1830, Military council after the Brussels campaign, verso - stamped, Cartoon on King William I and Prince Frederick after the failure of the Brussels campaign, 1830. Prince Frederick (left) as a cat addresses his father. King William I sits at a table like a cat, on the right a high-ranking military officer (General Trip) as a turkey. On the table lies the proclamation 'Manière d'attraper Les Gens'., print, engraving, cartoon, prints, engravings, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 214 mm, width 246 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1830 - 1831, paper, papier, lithografie (technique)
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Man with turban sitting in tailor seat and 19 soldiers wearing a fez.
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A sailor setting the broken leg of another sailor after an accident on deck. Halftone after F. Brangwyn, 1895.
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A favorite pastime , Sailors, Military personnel, Military life, Card games
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Mobile guards under the viaduct of Auteuil during the war of 1870 Isidore Pils (1813-1875). "Mobile guards under the Auteuil Viaduct during the 1870 War".
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General Ducrot said deceives death.
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Soldier with sword raised on the battlefield; Title page for: History of stadmoving in the Netherlands, 1782.Allegorical Performance with a Soldier Who is about to kill a woman. With His One Hand, Holds Holds Neck, in His Other Hand His Raised Sword. Behind Them An Old Woman With a Banner On Which A Peach ().
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The arrest of some Tyrolean patriots, 1809. Tyrolean uprising, Italy, 19th century.
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DF-SN-86-07110. Country: Unknown
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Military and other subject Vernet, Emile Jean Horace (1789 1863)