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Historical Military Portraits

19th-century portraits of military leaders and politicians in formal uniforms adorned with medals, showcasing their rank and status.

Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831 - 1896), King of Persia from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. Photograph on his last visit to Britain. Date: 1889
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831 - 1896), King of Persia from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. Photograph on his last visit to Britain. Date: 1889
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Mykola Oleksandrovich Shchors (1895 - 1919) Red Army commander, member of the Russian Communist Party, during the Russian Civil War and sometimes being called the Ukrainian Chapayev.
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Sayyid Sir Khalifa II bin Harub Al-Said, GCB, GCMG, GBE (August 26, 1879 - October 9, 1960) (Arabic: خليفة بن حارب البوسعيد‎) was the ninth Sultan of Zanzibar. He ruled Zanzibar from December 9, 1911 to October 9, 1960. In 1900, he married Princess Sayyida Matuka bint Hamud Al-Busaid, daughter of the seventh Sultan of Zanzibar and sister of the eighth Sultan. He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Abdullah bin Khalifa.
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Turkey: Ahmed Midhat Efendi (Ahmet Mithat; 1844 - 1912), author and journalist, and publisher of the Tercuman-I Hakikat newspaper from 1878. He was a prolific writer, with more than 250 of his works having survived.
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Amin Tarif 1898 - 1993. Qadi, or spiritual leader, of the Druze in Israel from 1928 till his death in 1993. Sheikh Amin was regarded by many within the community as the preeminent spiritual authority in the Druze world
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HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SIAM, 1872 engraving
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Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, 1922 (1936). Artist: Unknown
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Richard Burton as Haji Abdullah en route to Mecca. Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1821-1890 British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. From the book The Life of Captain Sir Richard Burton, volume I, by his wife Isabel Burton, published 1893.
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Photograph of Farouk of Egypt (1920-1965) ruler of Egypt. Dated 20th Century
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. Portrait of the Turkish Haly Agha, General de Giannizzari. At the top right numbered: 238.
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His Excellency Mr. Sapah Dare Aezem, Minister of War and Chief of the Revolutionaries in Rasht and Sardare Asad, Minister of the Interior and Chief of the Bakhtiaris of Ispahan. Date: circa 1909
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Ras Makonnen Walda-Mika'el Guddisa, also Makonnen Wolde Mikael, Honorary KCMG (1852 1906) - a general and the governor of Harar province in Ethiopia, and the father of Tafari Makonnen, later known as the Emperor Haile Selassie I. Date: circa 1890
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Lithographic portraits two chiefs of Vinchoor mahratta Anna sahib and Dada sahib India NO MR Copyright: xJehangirxSorabjee/DinodiaxPhotox
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Sultan Climbs To His Throne :Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa, Sultan of Morocco, who stubbornly refuses to meet French and Nationalist wishes and is jeopardising prospects of a Moroccan settlement be clinging to the throne of which he has been an uneasy occupant for the past two years. Plans to ease the crisis in Morocco call for the Sultan to withdraw to Tangiers without officially abdicating. The former Sultan, Beri Yussef, will come from exile in Madagascar to the south of France. September 13, 1955. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
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Photograph of Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini (1897-1974) Palestinian Arab Nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. Dated 1936