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Historical Military Meetings

Depictions of significant historical military gatherings and events, featuring leaders and soldiers in formal settings, showcasing wartime decision-making.

Russian agents seek to inter- -vene in the political crisis when Alexander abdicates : but another German prince, Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, will be chosen to succeed him. Date: early 1887

THE VISIT OF THE FRENCH FLEET

French zouave describing the Crimea to one of comrades in arms: there is no wine, and then there are eight months of winter and four months of bad weather, illustration by Jules Worms from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 696, Volume XXVII, June 28, 1856.

The signing of the Russian-Turkish peace treaty for San Stefano, General Ignateff,

The early 1900s caption reads: "King William proclaimed emperor at Versailles. It was while the German troops were still besieging Paris that the union of their country became an accomplished fact. King William of Prussia, unanimously chosen as its ruler, was proclaimed emperor, not at Berlin, but at Versailles, the captured palace of the French kings, in the famous hall of mirrors, built by Louis XIV. Around the new emperor were gathered, not men of peace, but warriors and princes, Bismarck the Iron Chancellor, and Moltke the greatest commander of the age."

Guizot És Thiers,

The self-sacrifice of Mayor Pieter van der Werff, 1574; 1574 / Van de Werff, at the siege of Leijden. The self-sacrifice of Mayor Pieter van der Werff, during the siege of Leiden, 1574. Van der Werff standing on the street between desperate Leideners offers them his sword and body.

The wounding of Lord Nelson on the deck of HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving.

Tsar Paweł and Visiting Tadeusz Kościuszko in Prison Gaugain, Thomas (1756 Ca 1810), Or Śowski, Aleksander (1777 1832), Anthony Molteno (London)

The Beggars before the Council, commence of Dutch Revolt, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume III, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1897

First aid worn to the Duke of Orleans. (TF)

The Meeting of Emperor Frederick III and Prince Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck, in Leipzig on 11 March 1888, Germany, Historical, ...

Tambour. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Austria, Drums

The saber regime! ... / 29 (title registered (letter)) | military sketch. (Title of all)

Uniforms of Giuseppe Garibaldi Army: Neapolitan National Guard; Calabrian Legion; Artillery Officer; Italian Officer; Staff Major Officer; Elite Corps; English Officer; English Commander; Italian Volunteer; Soldier with coat; Bersaglieri Officer, Italy, Expedition of the Thousand, illustration by Jules Worms from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 918, Volume 36, September 29, 1860.

ENSIGN'S PAGE; PAGE, PHILIP D'AULNAY; PAGE, TEMP. FRANCIS; ETON MONTEM 1844

Image reproduction: Walery Eljasz Radzikowski (1841-1905), Szymon Konarski's lead to the square Mierci in Vilnius 1839; Z: Sok Żowski August, History of Poland Illustrated. T. IV, Vienna 1901, p. 1715; Perles, Maurycy (Vienna; 1869-1938; publishing house); 1901 (1883-00-00-1883-00-00);

Presentation of the act of guarantee to Stadholder Willem V, 1788; Duty deputation to Z: D: H: Willem den ve where the act of guarantee or renewal of the herbal position by 7 gentlemen ijt the general statements are transferred to the Oranje Zaal, the 10 July 1788.Presentation of the Act of Act or Guarantee by Members or The States General to Stadholder Willem V, July 10, 1788.

Napoleon at the Tomb of Frederick the Great. Crypt of Garrison Church, Postdam. Engraving, 1808. Our Century (Nuestro Siglo),1883. Spanish edition.

Penn's Treaty With The Indians, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, (1822-1888)

An engraving depicting an the enlarging of a microphotograph sent out of the city by carrier pigeon during the Siege of Paris - Franco-Prussian War. Dated 19th century

Amhed 'Urabi or Orabi Pasha (1841-1911). Egyptian military and anti-British leader. After the battle of Tel-el-Kebin he was taken prisoner by the British. Egypt. Cairo. Orabi Pasha and Tulba-Pacha in the prisons of the Abbassiyeh barracks. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.

Provost Marshal--and police of Alexandria searching and examining a prisoner of war, 1861 ca. July, drawing on brown paper pencil, 19.8 x 27.2 cm. (sheet), 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, US

Nikolaus I., Kaiser of Russia.

Treaty of Luneville, 9 febr.1801. Signatories Joseph Bonaparte (France) and Count Ludwing von Cobenzl (Holy Roman Empire). Engraving, 19th cent.

Image showing sterilizers at the Salvage branch of the American Embarkation Center in Le Mans, Sarthe, France. The photograph was taken on January 20, 1919 by photographer Sgt. Ryden, S.C. The assigned number for this photograph is 49122.

The Rake's Progress 4. Arrested for debt in Whitehall as he is going to court Date: 1735

France, 1793 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

Engraving depicting Joachim Murat (1767-1815) Marshal of France and Grand Admiral or Admiral of France Joachim-Napoléon Murat 1st Prince Murat, was Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808 and then King of Naples from 1808 to 1815. Dated 1808

Engraving depicting the declaration of war on Morroco. Dated 1843

Johann III. Sobieski, King of Poland.

In the Crimea'. John Sutherland (1808-1891) British physician and sanitary reformer, left, and Robert Rawlinson (1810-1898) British civil engineer and sanitarian, in the Crimean in 1855, members of the commission sent by the British government to improve sanitation in military hospital and camps. Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856. Engraving from 'The Strand Magazine' (London, 1893).

France, 1789-1790 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

City sergeants; 1829-30.

Some men and a soldier in an inn. .

German Reich (1871-1914). Caricature about the cultural struggle (1878). Conflict known as Kulturkampf, originated by Otto von Bismarck with the purpose to subject to the Catholic Church under the control of the German state. Caricature with the tittle Modus vivendi: Pope Leo XIII, that stretches his leg to Bismarck so that he kisses his feet. Bismarck also raises his leg. In the middle, Ludwig Windhorts, leader of the Center Party. Engraving.

ENTREVISTA EL 23/2/1860 DEL GRAL O'DONNELL Y MULEY EL ABBAS - EL GENERAL O'DONNEL TRATA CON CAUDILLOS RIFEÑOS - GRABADO - SIGLO XIX. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN. MULEEY-EL ABAAS. MULEY EL ABBAS. LEOPOLDO O DONNELL (1809-1867) I DUQUE DE TETUAN. LEOPOLDO O'DONNELL (1809/1867) I DUQUE DE TETUAN.

A British fort at Ticonderoga in northern New York was taken by surprise by a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen of Vermont during the American Revolutionary War on May 10th, 1775. Desperately needed ammunition and guns were seized by the Americans. After seizing Ticonderoga, a small detachment captured the nearby Fort Crown Point.

Capture of Napoleon III. by King Wilhelm in the Bellevue Castle at Sedan on September 2, 1870, France, German-French campaign of 1870/1871, woodcut, France, Europe

The coup d'etat of the 18th Brumaire', 1799. Artist: Unknown

The Execution of Emperor Maximilian. Lithograph by French artist Edouard Manet. Apart from this lithograph, Manet produced three oil paintings and a smaller oil sketch of the subject.

Headquarters in the Naqada tombs during the Egyptian Campaign in 1798, painting by Vivant Denon (1747-1825), 1802, engraving. French Revolutionary Wars, Egypt, 18th century.

What we call a colonist, litografia z serii the troops in Africa w: the charivari Unknown, Aubert, Place de la Bourse

Human Vissicitudes.n�36. (Title registered (letter)) | Crimean War.

Soldier with hat and soldiers in consultation. Two illustrations on one set-up sheet. Above a soldier who offers his hat to a man, who probably brushes or cleans the hat. Under two soldiers at a table in consultation. One of the men holds a lantern in the air.

Congress of Berlin, 1878. Otto von Bismarck the German Chancellor, visiting the British delegate Lord Beaconsfield (Benjamin Disraeli) in the Kaiserhof Hotel. From 'The Illustrated London News' (London,13 June 1878).

LUIS XVI CON GEORGE WASHINGTON EN VERSALLES - 6/2/1778.

Military and other subject Vernet, Emile Jean Horace (1789 1863)

Napoleon Bonaparte leads a group of grenadiers who expelled the Council of Five Hundred (the lower house of the legislature) from its chambers and installed him as leader of France and its first consul in the coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire. digital reproduction of a historical original

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794). French writer, lawyer and politician. One of the leaders of the French Revolution. During the early morning of 10 Thermidor (28 July), soldiers of the Convention entered the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, where Robespierre was signing a decree calling the Commune to arms. Hearing the arrival of the troops, Le Bas committed suicide with a pistol. Robespierre had reportedly tried to do the same, but the bullet shattered his jaw, leaving him badly wounded. At 9 a.m. Robespierre, Saint-Just and Couthon were brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal, which sentenced them to be executed that same day by guillotine. Robespierre wounded. Drawing by H. Renaud. Engraving by Blanpain. History.

Major Bagstock is delighted to have that opportunity. Illustration from the Charles Dickens novel Dombey and Son by H.K. Browne known as Phiz

Wounded soldiers coming home booth group at Army Relief Bazaar, Albany, N.Y. / S.J. Thompson & Co., no. 478 Broadway, Albany, N.Y. | Library of Congress

Marines shows an African man from a boat Vlissingen. Illustration at the Marines from Irisheke.

Body of harmony. (Title registered (letter)) | The pretty soldiers. (Registered title (letter))

Murder of Aleid van Poelgeest, 1392, 1842 - 1844 print Jonkvrouw Aleid van Poelgeest at night outside the castle murdered by Hoekse soldiers, September 22, 1392. Netherlands paper steel engraving violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death Netherlands

Youth portrait of Leopold I. Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, 3 July 1676, 7 April 1747, was a German prince from the House of Askanien and ruler of the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau, he was also field marshal general in the Prussian army, at the conquest of the small French fortress of Aire, 1710, digital improved reproduction of an original 19th century print

Meeting of the peace conference in Frankfurt on 10 May 1871, illustrated war history, German, French war 1870-1871, Germany, France, Europe

. Princess Wilhelmina van Prussen held in the house in Goejanwellesluis and guarded by smoking and drinking soldiers, June 28, 1787.

Bazeilles September 2, 1870 (registered title) | The third invasion. War of 1870-1871. (title of all)

diet of Warsaw, 1773, called to draw up the treaty of session between Poland and Austria. Thaddeus Reyten, deputy of Novogrudok, opposes the election of a Russian Marshal for Poland

Nurses, attendants, and soldiers inside a hospital tent at City Point, Virginia 1864

The Capitulation of Sedan, The surrender of Sedan, Wimpffen, Bismarck, Moltke from The Holy War by Albert Henry Payne, Carl Emil Doepler -, Artist

Early in 1866, Gen. Ulysses Grant privately disapproved of President Johnson's lenient policies toward the former Confederate states, where crimes against freedmen went unpunished. Additionally, Grant was reluctantly pulled into Johnson's feud with Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton (BSLOC_2018_10_60)

Johan and Cornelis de Witt raid in their room in the prison gate, 1672. Johan and Cornelis de Witt are attacked by angry armed civilians in their room in the prison gate in The Hague, August 20, 1672. Johan standing next to the bed of his sick brother Cornelis . Signature at the top right: Li.

WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON

Im Schwanen - Hotel, May 10, 1871, final peace treaty with France, German-French War / Im Schwanen - Hotel, 10. Mai 1871, endgültiger Friedensvertrag mit Frankreich, Deutsch-Französische Krieg, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

The corporal shelter of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the 'Night Watch', Johann Wilhelm Kaiser (I), After Rembrandt van Rijn, 1865 print Amsterdam paper. pencil etching / engraving / brush land forces (+ citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia). dog. festivities on events of national importance. celebration meal, feast, banquet. proclamation of peace. historical events and situations. picture, painting

'Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794) French lawyer, politician, and Revolutionary. Arrested 27 July 1794 and, with 21 of his closest associates, was executed by guillotine the next day.'

Handing in a wreath to Willem II, King of the Netherlands, by Hortense de Boer on the citadel of Antwerp, September 29, 1831. Handing over a wreath to Willem II by Hortense de Boer on the citadel of Antwerp, September 29, 1831. In the middle Willem II and Hendrik. Right hortense de boer. Multiple figures around it. A set table in the background. Three lines of Dutch text in the undermarge.

US Civil War. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses Grant in the McLean's House, at Appomattox, Virginia, April 9, 1865. This Currier and Ives print shows General Lee and Grant at a small table, where the Lee signs the surrender document. The table is now in the Smithsonian Institution (BSLOC_2018_9_193)

1860S July 3 1863 General Ulysses Grant Meeting General John Pemberton To Discuss Surrender Terms Siege Of Vicksburg Mississippi

Picture series Orders, Order of Leopold, founded on 11 July 1832 by Leopold I. King of Belgium, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a colle...

Request for the fight, one of the women in the tavern has taken a sword of the musketeers and jokingly challenges the men to fight, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, around 1890, Record Date Not Stated

Paris National Guard / 1st series / Souvenir of the 2 seats / n ° 4 / The return of Malelas (IT)

Nelson has the coffin presented to him by Captain Hallowell placed against the bulkhead of his cabin

Ministerial conference on the settlement of the Crimean War from March to June , in Vienna, Unknown

Reproduction of a painting: Walery Eljasz Radzikowski (1841-1905), Szymon Konarski being guided to the execution square in Vilnius in 1839; from: Sokołowski August, Dzieje Polski Illustrowane Illustrated history of Poland. Vol. IV, Vienna 1901, p. 1715. Perles, Maurycy (Wiedeń ; 1869-1938 ; wydawnictwo), publisher

Russia, 960-1694 part 2. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Russia

Death of President Lincoln: At Washington, D.C. April 15th 1865. The Nation's Martyr - digital file from original print | Library of Congress

France, 1854-1855 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

Vintage Photograph. Lee's Surrender to Grant at Appomattox, Virginia. Painting by L.R. Guillaume.

Interior of the military guard of the military guard at the Nieuwmarkt at night; Hoofd-Wagt der Schuttery, above St. Anthonieswaag, on the Nieuwmarkt. In Amsterdam. View of the interior of the Hoofdwacht van de Schutterij on the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam at night, with a few figures by candlelight.

League of the Three Emperors. Alliance formed from 1873 to 1887 by the emperors of the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires. They created a common front to oppose liberal forms of government in Western Europe. Three Emperors' Meeting in Skierniewicz (Poland) (15-17 September, 1884). Chancellors Otto von Bismarck (German), Nikolay Girs (Russian) and Gustave Kálnoky (Austrian). Engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustración Española y Americana), October 8, 1884.

Franch soldier taking leave of his family, wife, child and baby in an affluent middle class setting. His little girl is smaller than the soldier's rifle. This image clearly shows the sympathy felt for the French position in the Franco-Prussian war by the British people. Date: 1871

1865, Mexique, 1865, Mexique, 1865, Falconnet, Louis, 1864-ca. 1867, by Louis Falconnet, an officer in the French army, from documentation he created or gathered while on his tour of duty in Mexico (1864-1866) at the time of the French intervention.

The First Lord, Winston Churchill (1874-1975) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940-1945 and again from 1951-1955 with his two highest executive officers, Rear Admiral Charles Madden, (1862-1935) Chief of the Staff and Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, (1859-1935) Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleets.

Interior of the militia guard at the Botermarkt at night Hoofd-wag der der Schuttery, Above the Reguliers Waag, at the Botermarkt. In Amsterdam (title on object), View of the interior of the militia guard at the Botermarkt in Amsterdam by night, with some figures by candlelight, guard duty, keeping sentry, night, card games, playing cards, pipe, tobacco, Butter market, Hendrik van Hilten, Northern Netherlands, 1750 - 1793, paper, etching, h 242 mm × w 351 mm

Giuseppe garibaldi and general giacomo medici meet re vittorio emanuele II., by gerolamo induno, XIX century

Russian-Japanese War (1904-1905). Russian general Anatoli Stoessel, commander in chief of Port Arthur, surrenders and delivers the city to Japanese general Maresuke Kiten Nogi Togo (2nd January 1905). Engraving.

Pictures from the German-French wars 1870./nr.7. / defeated Täsar. (Ti)

The death of President Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, the morning after he was shot by John WIlkes Booth in Ford's Theatre, Washington. After a contemporary illustration.

Vaccination: c1895. Alfred Touchemolin (1829-1907) French painter. French army recruits being vaccinated with Cowpox to protect them from the more virulent infection, Smallpox. Infection being transferred from the heffer lying on the table. ( Detail)

The sweep of September 4, 1870! .....

Currier & Ives Illustration 19th Century. Soldier's Return

Execution of Murat, Illustration from the Book, Historical Cabinet, L.H. Young Publisher, New Haven, 1834

Sleeping-bunks of the First Rhode Island Regiment, at the Patent Office, Washington / Sketched by our special artist. | Library of Congress

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