Historical Military Illustrations

Engravings depicting various historical events, including battles, explorations, and penal servitude, showcasing profound moments in history through artistic interpretations.

A convict transported to Bermuda shown digging rocky ground and wearing a smock embellished with his name, number & origin plus hat. Date: 1848
A convict transported to Bermuda shown digging rocky ground and wearing a smock embellished with his name, number & origin plus hat. Date: 1848
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Historia de España. Ejecución de seis rebeldes americanos de Louisiana por orden del general Orreille, enviado desde La Habana para sofocar la resistencia de los colonos en 1764. Grabado de 1880.
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Unification of Italy: Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian patriot, turning the British idea of the Roman Catholic church out of Naples. Cartoon from 'Punch', London, 22 September 1860. Wood engraving
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PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR AT SHEFFIELD AND CLEETHORPES: ROLLING AN ARMOUR-PLATE FOR THE 'GALATEA'
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Indian Mail Signals at Folkestone. Illustrated London News July 1844; Black and White Illustration;
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The siege of Morosi's mountain; one of the last major incidents of the Zulu war. Date: 1879
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THE WAR IN EGYPT
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Artwork: "Airshow 3" Artist: Charles Shaw. Country: Unknown
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Engraving depicting Jacques de Romas (1713-1776) reconstructing Benjamin Franklin's (1706-1790) kite experiment.
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Protecting the settlers. Prints. 1861-08. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Indians of North America , West (U.S.) , 1800-1899, Massacres , California , 1860-1869, Pioneers , California , 1860-1869, Shooting , California , 1860-1869, Tipis , California , 1860-1869
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Francs Tireurs Arronssohn - Tirailleurs des Ternes', Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Print from a series titled Souvenirs du Siege de Paris. Francs tireurs were members of irregular guerrilla infantry units, many of them drawn from rifle shooting clubs. After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III, the Prussians surrounded Paris on 9 September 1870. The city held out despite famine and great hardship until a bombardment with heavy siege guns led to its surrender on 28 January 1871. From a private collection.
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KING HENRY VIII (1491 - 1547) demonstrating his prowess as an archer at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, June 1520
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An Afghan cannon, vintage engraving. An Afghan cannon, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1843. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660381
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De Servi Cacciator... (Servants Preparing the Guns for the Hunt). Dated: 1763. Dimensions: plate: 62.2 × 50 cm (24 1/2 × 19 11/16 in.) sheet: 64.1 × 51.4 cm (25 1/4 × 20 1/4 in.). Medium: engraving on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Marco Alvise Pitteri after Pietro Longhi.
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'Cossack on Horseback, Black Sea Squadron of the Life Guards Cossack Regiment'. France, 1810s. Dimensions: 20,5x26 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: CARLE VERNET.
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Soldaten Verminken Een Naakte Man, Mihály Biró, 1920 print Presentation of the harsh conditions in Hungary at the time of white terror under the shock of Miklós Horthy. Title on object in Hungarian, French, German, English and Russian and text in German on Verso. paper letterpress printing reign of terror. violent death by mutilation or maiming
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The Moroccan tradition of Fantasia. Lab al baroud. Unpowder game or Tbourida, is a stylized reenactment of a wartime cavalry charge, a celebration of the region's history and of the bond between horse and rider, Morocco. North of Africa. Morocco by Edmondo de Amicis 1875. Le Tour du Monde 1879
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Reproduction of a painting: Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), Hunters; from: Kłosy 1879 (1) 1. Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), draughtsman, cartoonist, Kłosy (Warszawa ; drzeworytnia ; 1865-1890), publisher, Telakowski, Jan (fl. ca 1876-ca 1898), woodcutter
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George Merry & his fellow pirates discover that the treasure has gone, much to the amusement of Long John Silver. Date: First published: 1883
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Illustration depicting suggested protective clothing to help the All England Team against the latest fast bowling. Dated 19th century
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THE PRINCE OF WALES IN SWEDEN: 'HARD A PORT!', THE 'OSBORNE' IN THE NAEROFJORD AFTER LEAVING GUDVANGEN
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The Civil War, Life in Camp, Late For Roll Call, souvenir card showing the daily life of Union soldiers on the front, in the camp and on furlough, chromolithograph Winslow Homer, circa 1864.
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An engraving depicting a cavalry pioneer blowing up a railway line. These pioneers, equipped with a belt full of small charges with a belt full of small charges of dynamite or gun cotton, were able to sabotage strategic targets. Dated 19th century
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Stanley threatens to shoot a porter during the mutiny in Gombe, travel and exploration by Henry Morton Stanley, expedition how I found Livingstone in
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Cartoon - The Pile of Bones Patriot Rostap (1866-1949)
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Engraving showing a team of survivors of the 'Jeannette' Arctic Expedition looking for their missing and dead comrades. This team, led by Chief Engineer Melville, found the bodies of Captain Delong and 12 others and erected the cross, at the Lena River Delta, in their memory. In 1879, an US Navy crew, led by Lieutenant Commander George Washington Delong, embarked aboard the private yacht 'Jeannnette' in an attempt to sail to the North Pole. The 'Jeannette' entered the ice pack, near Wrangel
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Spain. Third Carlist War (1872-1876). Alava. Fort of San Leon. Entry. Engraving by D. E. Crespo. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1876.
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Greek Anti-British Propaganda Postcard - this translates as: "Greek Soldiers - this is whom you are fighting!" The British forces are characterised as a fat John Bull, growing fat on excesses, gorging on the food of International power Date: circa 1940
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Cartoon depicting John Bull representing the British Establishment standing firm against Walter Citrine, the menace of socialist trade union strikes, during the 1926 General Strike. Dated 20th Century
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Mangonel, an engine of war in the 15th century, (1870). Artist: Unknown
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Historical scene, US-American history, 19th century, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, 1804
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Policeman in Berlin, uniform, man, notebook, pencil, pickelhaube, dog, tower, houses, Germany, historical illustration around 1898, Europe
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Why don't you take it , Dogs, Food, Barrels, Presidents, Generals, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866
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J. & P. Coats Best Six Cord, 200 yds, 40. J. & P. Coats Best Six Cord, 200 yds, 40
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Murder of Capt Fraser.An artist impression of the spearing of Captain Fraser, of the Stirling Castle, while his wife, later made to work for the natives, looks on in terror. August 19, 1954.
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THE WAR IN EGYPT
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SOLID "FIX UP." " General, this is about as FULL, FREE, and FAIR as we can count in.", 19th century engraving
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THE AFGHAN WAR
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Krupp cannon of 143 000 kilograms, 16 meters long In the foreground a German field muzzle, harnessed with 6 horses, is shown at the same scale. Old illustration from La Nature 1887
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Engraving showing a seaman, on the side of an emigrant ship, heaving the lead to check the depth of the water with a plumb line, 1884. Date: 1884
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Illustration showing Artillery from Hernan Cortez Expedition to Central America. Hernan Cortes (1485 - 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
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Roman soldiers attacking the Germanic wall, 11 BC History of Ancient Rome, Roman Empire, Italy, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe
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Journée de l'armée d'Afrique et des troupes coloniales - World War I French Poster
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Fire tubes being fired at enemy cavalry from cannon. From De la pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice, 1540). Woodcut
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THE LATE RISING IN THE TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA, 1881: A BOER VEDETTE
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Communist syndicalist militia at night, during the Spanish Civil War. By Carlos Saenz de Tejada (1897 - 1958 ) Spanish painter and illustrator;identified with the Nationalist (Fascist) side in the Spanish Civil War.
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Fighting the Eagle; Boczkowski, Paweł (Fl. 1872-1901), Witkiewicz, Stanisław (1851-1915); 1888 (1888-00-00-1888-00-00);
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Mountaineers in the snow on the way to a mountain summit, cut through a snowweh, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated
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History by Polybius. Volume II. French edition translated from Greek by Dom Vincent Thuillier. Comments of Military Science enriched with critical and historical notes by M. De Folard. Paris, chez Pierre Gandouin, Julien-Michel Gandouin, Pierre-Francois Giffart and Nicolas-Pierre Armand, 1727. Printing by Jean-Baptiste Lamesle. Treaty of military attacks. Catapult. Engraving.
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The sportsman upset by the recoil of his own gun (Jo. Miller) | Library of Congress
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Middle Ages Artillery war weapon. Bate muro Old artillery piece, horizontal shot, placed on a cart. Old engraving of the book Historia de España by Al
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Shown here at top is a bombard, a cannon of the earliest type, which originally fired a stone ball. This one is about 43 inches in length and weighed about 275 pounds. In italy it was known as the tromba di bombarda. The middle weapon is hand cannon. At bottom are cannon on wheels that date to the late 1300s.
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Country guards in Reunion island. Western Indian Ocean, drawing by Janet Lange (1815-1872) Journey to Reunion Island, 1861 by Louis Laurent Simonin (1830-1886) Le Tour du Monde 1862
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Manuscript engraving depicting agricultural labourers working in the fields. Dated 12th Century
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Bombarde, powder guns in the late Middle Ages, from the 16th century and old Swiss mountain gun, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from the ...
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Satirical cartoon depicting how the German were losing many of the Zeppelins sent over to bomb London, during World War One. Dated 20th Century
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Engraving depicting a scene from the fall of Plataea. The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece in 479 BC. Dated 20th century
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Mary Stuart (1542-1587) was regent of Scotland from December 14. 1542. to July 24. 1567. In 1566. the Scottish nobles. the so-called Confederate Lords. turned against her and raised an army against her. Mary Stuart and Bothwell confronted them at Carberry Hill on June 15. Mary's troops dwindled. and she surrendered. England. digital reproduction of a historical original.
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INVASION PLANS The 'Thiloriere' is a huge montgolfiere (hot-air-balloon) which will carry large numbers of French troops to England, at a very modest cost Date: 1804
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Paris firemen report to headquarters using a street telephone in Paris 1901
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Mining Operations during the siege operation of Lucknow. Vintage Lithograph following the Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow, India, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Illustration by Lieutenant C.H. Mecham
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An engraving depicting a member of the 26th Middlesex Cycle Corps practising. Dated 19th century
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Mr. Harrison goes shooting and fishing | Library of Congress
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A beautiful dream that turns to nightmare. (Registered title (letter)) | The Crimean War. (Title of the whole)
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During the expedition to the Honduras in 1780 Nelson narrowly missed being killed by a snake bite. Date: 02/11/1907
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Uncle Sam, assisted by Labor, cut the German U-boat menace down to size. (America had entered the war by this time.) Date: 1918
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Engraving depicting gun cotton and dynamite cartridges. Dated 19th century
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This is a typical example of a Nazi German propaganda poster dropped on Indian troops fighting for the Allies in Europe during World War II. In this case the leaflet was dropped on troops of the 8th Indian Infantry Division preparing to force a crossing of the River Po in 1945.