Historical Military Engagements

Images depicting historical military events, including scenes from the Crimean War, Russo-Turkish War, and various strikes, highlighted with a dramatic, historical style.

Anarchist bomb attack on a Paris police station : removing the body of the dead policeman.

Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco (1801-1875). Spanish writer. Poor and Rich (Pobres y Ricos) or The Witch of Madrid (La Bruja de Madrid), 1849-1850. Illustration depicting a duel with swords fom the novel.

Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) between the United Kingdom and Ireland and the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. Exodus of Johannesburg. Native people leaving from the city. Engraving. "La Ilustracion Artistica", 1900.

Debate in the Senate for the Pensions Act, Rome, June 2, 1893, from Italian Illustration. Italy, 19th century.

THE BLACK PRINCE AND THE FRENCH KING'S HERALDS

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt on the Schaveot before his execution, 1619. Johan van Oldenbarnevelt on the Schaveot before his execution, May 13, 1619. Van Oldenbarnevelt puts his hand to the spectators.

Workers at Woolwich Arsenal prepare to equip the cavalry for the Abyssinia Expedition, 1869, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

THE WAR IN THE EAST, WITH THE TURKS, VOLUNTEERS ENLISTING IN THE SQUARE OF THE SERASKERIAT, CONSTANTINOPLE, 1877 engraving

BANQUET GIVEN AT PORTSMOUTH BY THE OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH FLEET TO THE GERMAN NAVAL OFFICERS, THE TOAST OF "THE GERMAN NAVY", UK, 1889.

Offiziere der türkischen Armee, Türkei, 1870 / Turkish army officers, Turkey, 1870, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

The Last Cartridges at Balan near Sedan 1870 From 19th century print of painting by French artist Alphonse Marie de Neuville Photogravure by Goupil and Company Incident in the French Prussian War of 1870 to 1871

Escena de la novela EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA, de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Dibujo de Ribera. Don Quijote dando su fallo sobre el yelmo de Mambrino.

Mail ship, mail shipping from Europe to New York, sorting mail in stormy seas, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an 18th century original, exact original date unknown

EGYPT AFTER THE WAR

THE MURDER LEAGUE IN DUBLIN, IRELAND, 1883: DIVERS SEARCHING THE RING'S END BASIN WHERE KAVANAGH STATES HE THREW THE KNIVES USED IN THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF MR. DENIS FIELD

THE LAND AGITATION IN IRELAND, 1881: "BOY COTTERS BOYCOTTED": AT SLIGO COURT-HOUSE, SELLING CATTLE SEIZED FOR RENT

BETSY DOYLE A SOLDIERS WIFE HELPING LOAD CANNON ON RAMPARTS OF FORT NIAGARA WAR OF 1812

events Thirty Years War 1618 - 1648 people marching soldiers engraving by Jacques Callot (1592 - 1635) baggage women family military 17th century,

military medical service army doctor examinatong a wounded soldier engraving ""Der vollkommene deutsche Soldat"" von Hans Friedrich von Fleming Leipzig 1726,

Two black men are tortured by being tied to a wooden stick, forcing them to perform every movement simultaneously, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

I raise my hand and, with his head covered, I pronounced the formula of absolution, vintage engraved illustration.

'Mr Gladstone Addressing the Officers and Crew of the Grantully Castle', late 19th century. Artist: Unknown

THE WAR IN CHINA

The Execution of Campi, Place de la Roquette, 30 April 1884, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

THE ROYAL DRAWINGROOM

'The Mob of Spenceans Summoning the Tower of London', 1816 (c1890). Creator: Unknown.

War of Roussillon, also called War of the Pyrenees or War of the Convention, (1793-1795). Conflict between the Spain of Charles IV and the First French Republic. In June 1795 correspondence was intercepted that revealed French plans to form proselytes in many important locations. They discussed whether it would be many or a single Iberian Republic that would benefit Spain. One such meeting was held in a convent, the main members were friars. Secret society of republican friars. Engraving. Historia del Levantamiento, guerra y revolucion de Espana by the Conde de Toreno. Madrid, 1851.

EGYPT AFTER THE WAR

French troops in the besieged city erect their barracks on the boulevards where they are the object of popular interest from women and dogs alike. Date: December 1870

In the delegations, Rudolf Brestel, war budget from Figaro, Unknown

Jeff's Last Shift -Jefferson Davis captured after USA Civil War, in woman's clothing

Jacques de Flesselles, político francés, muerto en la toma de la Bastilla, el 14 de julio de 1789. Grabado de 1866.

Fist fight with brass knuckles in Tyrol, historical engraving, 1888

The last moments of the Girondists on their way to the guillotine, execution, French Revolution, historical illustration, 1880, France, Europe

Leon Gambetta, member of the Government of National Defence, speaking to the French troops, engraving. Franco-Prussian War, France, 19th century.

The Tour de France a small Parisian, We will shoot you! said the lieutenant, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

SCENE IN A STREET OF SEBASTOPOL, ALLIED SOLDIERS SINGING 'NO MORE TRENCHES,' TO THE AIR OF 'DES LAMPIONS.'

School Revisited: A man-of-war's man on board his old training ship the "Exmouth", 1889.

Engraving depicting the use of speaking tubes on the bridge of a naval vessel for communicating with other decks. Dated 19th Century

'An Evening Concert in Officers' Mess of the Artists Rifles', 1917. From "The War Illustrated Album De Luxe - Volume VIII. Ending The First Three Years", edited by J. A. Hammerton. The Amalgamated Press, Limited, London, 1917

Historia de España. Proclamación del Bando de los alcaldes de Móstoles el 2 de mayo de 1808, considerado popularmente como la declaración de guerra contra los franceses que inició la Guerra de la Independencia.

INTERVIEW BETWEEN EDWARD IV. AND LOUIS XI. ON THE BRIDGE AT PECQUIGNY.

French prisoners of war at the railway station in Munich, historic illustration, illustrated war chronicle 1870 to 1871, German campaign against France

Southern Planter: "Pomp, you Rascal! do you see any of those cursed Yankee ships coming this way" / J.M.. Briggs collection . Slavery, United States, 1860-1870, Fear, 1860-1870, Plantation owners, United States, 1860-1870, Economic & social conditions, Southern States, 1860-1870, African Americans, War, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Social aspects.

GUERRA DE LOS BOXERS (1900). Bóxers prisioneros en una aldea china custodiados por marinos alemanes. Grabado de O. Gerlach.

THE WAR IN EGYPT

German Peasants' War, 1524-1526, Liberation of the Priest Matthäus. Matthäus Alber (also Aulber) (born 4 December 1495) (died 2 December 1570) was a G...

Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.

Volunteer enrollments in Russia. / 8 (title registered (letter)) | Cossacks for laughter. (Title of all)

Engraving depicting a merchant promoting his cat, killer of rats. Dated 1870

American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Lexington and Concord, where the Americans clashed with the british troops (April 19, 1775). American militiamen manufacturing rifles. Engraving by A. Bobbett. 19th century.

The British army at rest in their barracks

Belgium, Onghena, Charles, Jan de Paepe and his companions. (1554), Jan de Paepe and his companions, 1554, The adulterers Jan de Paepe and his companions in 1554 in Ghent sentenced to walk through the streets, each with a burning torch., print, image, history print, prints, Frederik Muller History plates, height 141 mm, width 217 mm, Belgian, 1806-06-06 - 1886-12-16, print maker, printmaker, 1833 - 1835, second quarter 19th century, paper, etching, etchings

Colonial Days in New York City, corner of Liberty and William Streets

Reproduction of telegraphic dispatches by the magic lantern during the siege of Paris, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Assassination of President James A. Garfield

Treaty of Picquigny. Meeting of Edward IV of England and Louis XI of France at Picquigny. France, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Histoires de l'Ancien Temps 1889

Calvert, Denis .

JOSE MARTI (1853-1895) POLITICO Y ESCRITOR CUBANO.

Indian massacre in the Wilkesbarre Valley in Wyoming USA, After a 19th century print by J Roger, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century, Record date not stated..

Adventures of an heir worldwide. Woe to the French!, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

Sale of a deserter's kit in the barracks, 1875. Artist: Unknown

The Pensioners' Smoking Gallery at the Hospital, which will close in 1869 and be converted into a Naval College. Date: 1865

Henri-Alfred Darjou (1832-1874). Defense of Paris: a national guardian guard Child, woman, national guard, military, Paris seat (September 1870-Janvier 1871)

The "Nottingham Captain" and agitators at the White Horse Inn, Pentrich, Derbyshire, 1817 (c1890). Creator: Unknown.

Zagłoba and Bohun meet in Babice, illustration for Henryk Sienkiewiczs novel “With Fire and Sword". Piotrowski, Antoni (1853-1924), draughtsman, cartoonist

ARRIVAL OF COLONEL SYNGE AT SALONICA AFTER HIS RELEASE BY THE BRIGANDS, 1880

Prisoners captured at Woodstock, Virginia / E. Forbes.. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Kernstown, 1st Battle of, Winchester, Va, 1862, Prisoners of war, Confederate, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Prisoners, United States, Virginia, Kernstown

Martin Sigismund Eduard von Simson, 1810 to 1899, German jurist and important liberal politician, handing over a letter from the North German Imperial Diet to the King of Prussia at Hohenzollern Castle, c. 1885, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

New York Militia. 55 Lafayette. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. United States, Army, New York Infantry Regiment, 55th (1861-1862) , Military uniforms, Union, 1860-1870, Military officers, Union, 1860-1870, Women, 1860-1870, Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, Zouaves, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union, United States

A soldier returns and goes first to embrace his child, his wife in the background waves to remind him of her presence also. Wood engraving by Benedict after Berthold Woltze.

Portion of the Armoury - White Tower - Tower of London, circa 1908

A busy scene at Victoria Station, London during 1915 showing a soldiers train bringing officers and men on furlough (leave) from the war zone to home. Date: 1915

Fracas in the Privy Council 1711, from Cassell's History of England King's Edition Part 29

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Auguste Viktoria Friederike Luise Feodora Jenny, 1858 to 1921, was the last German Empress and Queen of Prussi...

Wounded from the Franco - Russian military hospital in Marienbourg, June 1807, detail. Napoleonic Wars, France, 19th century.

German Peasants' War, 1524-1526, peasants' parlour in Keula, boiling fish, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th cent...

The lost found / drawn by A.R. Waud.. Title from item, Signed on block "A.R. Waud" in lower left, Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 475 (1866 February 3), p. 76, Illustration suffers loss in three places along the top edge due to "Humors of the Day" clipped from the previous page. War casualties, 1860-1870, Graves, 1860-1870, Servants, 1860-1870, African Americans, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Casualties.

Illustration showing the interior of the Gun Control Room, the headquarters of London's anti-aircraft defences during the Second World War, 1944. Information regarding the movement of enemy airplanes was sent to this room and plotted on the maps on the left of the image. Then the senior staff (on the right) could co-ordinate London's anti-aircraft defence. This sketch was drawn by Captain Bryan de Grineau, the ILN special artist, during a visit to the Gun Control Room in 1944. Date:

transport transportation navigation crew education Great Britian Naval Lads' Brigades church service on board of a trainig ship wood engraving circa 1870,

The civil execution of N. G. Chernyshevsky. From a drawing of 1862.

Tunnel in London. Workers going to their jobs. Colored engraving in "The Spanish and American Illustration", 1870.

Bretschneider, Daniel d. Ä.: Up: Bergmannsgruppe with H. G. of Osterhausen and S. by Holtzendorf as leader on horseback. Below: Wild Men, Musicous Bear Group and Dromedar Guide. Sheet 45, 13th and 23. Part. From: Christiani Hertzogens and Charbursten Zue Sagens Ringk race, which S. Churf. G. At Dero, Young Daughter, Frein Dorothenn, Freelous Throuffe Zue Dressen Fall Schloshoff has been held on 26th 27th and 29. Jan., Anno 1591. Dresden: Slub MSCR. Dresd.j.9

Weapons of Medieval warfare. Battering-ram used to counteract blows

Blinded French soldier returning home after being dis4charged from duty. Dated 1914

The death of Admiral Carter during the Battle of Barfleur off the coast of Lower Normandy in northwestern France on 29 May 1692. It was the decisive naval battle of the Nine Years' War. known to the British as the War of the English Succession. digital reproduction of a historical original

France. Paris Commune. Popular revolutionary movement that took power in Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871, during the Franco-Prussian War. Soldiers of the Commune. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

The State of Ireland: Going to Business - a Sketch at Westport, Mayo, 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Sherman's March Through Georgia, Union troops tearing up railroad tracks, engraving 1882

A Pacific contest at the soldiers home. Civil war vetrans playing chess at veterans home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Originally published in April 1881 edition of Harpers New Monthly Magazine

Boer War: ambulance men taking the wounded into hospital at the entrance. Reproduction after a watercolour.

Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

''Through the Ranks to a Commission', 1888. From, 'The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888'.

Grand set to between rough and ready by Edward Williams Clay, 1799-1857. Published 1848. Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass engage in a bout of fisticuffs in their battle for the presidency in 1848. Taylor, clearly getting the better of his opponent, seizes Cass by the lapels saying, A little more grape! Genal Gas! Cass pleads, Enough! Enough! youve knocked all the breath out of my body--Carry me off Old Bullion! His appeal for help is to conservative Democratic senator Thomas Hart Benton, who stands to the left wondering, I didnt think old Gas would have funked so soon; these d--d Barnburners must have frightened his pluck out of him. One of the Barnburners (i.e, radical Democrats), former President Martin Van Buren (far left), comments, If old Gas comes round in my neighbourhood Ill give a poke that will soon settle his hash. On the far right stands Henry Clay, who lost the Whig nomination to Taylor. His aside: As I couldnt get the match myself I am glad Old Rough and Re

Skater has broken into the ice, other men try to help, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

World War I: German emperor Wilhlem II regarding Russia as doormat to his new territories, while the Austrian emperor Charles I takes a more cautious approach. Cartoon from 'Punch', London, 27 March 1918.

Turkish prisoners sitting in a cell with a barred window; two of them are racing cockroaches. Process print by Meisenbach after H. Lanos after W.T. Maud.

Engraving depicting a Captain with cabin boy. Dated 19th Century

strikers watch in anger as troops move in to protect a factory during a strike. 19th century France. French illustration 1890

Historical illustration of the bombing of the French Parliament, 9 December 1893, Paris, France, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, exact original date not known, Europe

French and Indian War. Acadian deportees awaiting transport to the British east coast as far south as Georgia. The British feared disloyalty among the Roman Catholic Acadians during the French and Indian War, 1755 to 1762 (BSLOC_2019_3_11)

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