Historical Military Satire

Illustrations depicting military officers, humorous scenarios, and political conspiracies, showcasing 19th-century artistic style and satire.

Stationed in Paris, officers of the Belfort regiment conspire to overthrow the restored Bourbon monarchy. But colonel Caron, one of the leaders, is arrested.

Here are hats! So they will wear plaster / To their wives, Parbleu! (Registered title) | News. (Title of the set)

Stationed in Paris, officers of the Belfort regiment conspire to overthrow the restored Bourbon monarchy. But colonel Caron, one of the leaders, is arrested.

Our troles in orient./24./- Skin for skin!. (Title registered (letter)) | Our troles in the East. (Title of all)

Chap. XI: Des Memoires! fi donc (IOUs, fie!) 1824 Victor Adam. Chap. XI: Des Memoires! fi donc (IOUs, fie!) 698505

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Prussian squadron seamen. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume I. Published in Barcelona, 1870.

Installation of Willem V as a heritage city center, 1766; Installation of Prince Willem Den vde. The installation of Prince Willem V as a peripheral stage holder in the States General on March 8, 1766. The Prince participates in a meeting of the States General. Signature at the top right: XII. D. PL. X.

The students of Vienna at the first registered letter to the National Guard , March , Franz Kollarz Kolář -, Lithographer, Johann Rauh -, printer

La Future loi militaire. Tout le monde soldat de 20 à 40 ans. Tout le monde invalide de 40 à 90 ans. Cham (Count Amédée-Charles-Henry de Noé) (France, Paris, 1819-1879). France, 1871. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

A northern depiction of the Preston Brooks' attack (right) on Senator Charles Sumner, May 22, 1856. At left, Robert Toomb of Georgia and Stephen Douglas stand passively. In center, Rep. Lawrence Keitt, holds a pistol and raises his cane to prevent fellow Senators' from coming to Sumner's aid. Keitt, was censured by the House for his actions (BSLOC_2018_5_165)

Robbers hold up the Kensington National Bank in Philadelphia, USA. Date: 1871

Assassination of the Duke of Orleans, Barbette Street / (Lounge of 1833) (IT)

FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR: KING WILLIAM AND THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AT THE CHATEAU DE BELLEVUE NEAR SEDAN, SEPTEMBER 2 1870

History of Spain. First Carlist War (1833-1840). The Eliot Treaty. The British diplomat Edward Granville Eliot travelled to the Basque provinces as a representative of the British government to reach an agreement between Carlists and Liberals that would allow the lives of prisoners of war to be respected. On 27th and 28th April 1835, the treaty was signed in Asarta and Logroño between Tomás Zamalacárregui (Carlist side), Gerónimo Valdés (Liberal side), Eliot and Lieutenant-Colonel Gurwood. Engraving by Chamorro. Panorama Español, Crónica Contemporánea. Volume III Madrid, 1845. Author: Chamorro. 19th century-Spanish engraver.

FRATERNIZATION OF THE BRITISH HORSE GUARDS AND THE FRENCH CENT GARDES, AT BOULOGNE, DRINKING HER MAJESTY'S HEALTH. 1854

Italy. Parma 1850 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Italy

Cuylenburgh, Cornelis van (II), Noordelijke Nederlanden, Josi, Christiaan, Return by the French of historical pieces from the stadholder's collection to the States-General, 1795, Northern Netherlands, verso - stamped, Ceremony with the return by the French under the leadership of General JB Dumonceau of five important historical pieces from the confiscated stadholder's collection of William V. French soldiers carry the pieces across the square of the Binnenhof for transfer to the States-General, 12 March 1795., print, prent, historieprent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 206 mm, width 123 mm, Dutch, 1768 - 1828-11, print maker, printmaker, 1798 - 1800, paper, stippelets, 1758 - 1827-09-22, intermediary draughtsman

THE AFGHAN WAR

News. / 302. / mr.cobden not wanting to hear about a treaty of peace ... (registered title) | News (1856) (registered title)

Interior of a British prison transportation ship (prison hulk) used to take convicts to Australia for re-settlement. 1850

SPEECH DAY AT MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL

The Prince's Levee at Bombay: Receiving the Maharana of Oudeypore, 1876. The future King Edward VII greets an Indian ruler. '...the Maharana of Oudeypore was remarkable, among so many rich costumes, for plainness of attire; all was white cotton, a gold belt hung over his left shoulder, by which, Rajpoot-like, his shield was suspended, and thus, with his tulwar in hand, he met his future Emperor. He is a young man, rather dark for a native of India, very slightly pockmarked, and with a small moustache; the expression of the face was rather heavy and unintellectual. He seemed of a backward tur

Fargue, Karel la, Northern Netherlands, Sallieth, Mathias de, Princess of Orange arrested at Goejanverwellesluis, 1787, verso - stamped, Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia detained in the house at Goejanverwellesluis and guarded by smoking and drinking soldiers, June 28, 1787. In front of the door a soldier of a free corps keeps watch with a naked saber., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 108 mm, width 81 mm, Czech, 1749 - 1791-11-29, print maker, printmaker, 1787 - 1787, paper, papier, etching, etchings, kleurdruk, 1738-06-01 - 1793-09-30, intermediary draughtsman

Prince Bismarck and the Marquis of Salisbury from Ruppius´ Sunday leaves = Sunday sheet for everyone from the people, Unknown

The assassination of President James Garfield, 1881

Matthew Mahoney and Charles White, executed for the murder of Sir John Dinely Goodere, 1741. Copperplate engraving by R. Grave from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.

France, 1871 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

France. Death of Paul Beurtheret, editor of the "Union Liberale", hit by a Prussian projectile at the rue Royale in Tours, 1870. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

The arrest of Jacobites during the 1689 rising. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c.1890.

Mayor Westerwijk in Goes led out of prison, 1692, Jacobus Buys, 1785 drawing Mayor Adolph Westerwijk in Goes sentenced to death in a conflict with Stadholder William III. However, the punishment was converted into lifelong. In the show, soldiers leave the wife away from the mayor when he is brought out of prison, December 30, 1692. Design for a print. Northern Netherlands paper. ink pen / brush last talk with relatives (during last hours before execution). (person under sentence of death) on the way to the scaffold or place of execution Goes

- Go for a walk ... It's not up to you that I'm z-affair! .... (title registered) | Zouaves and Croats. (Title of the whole)

Monsieur will be very satisfied here: a superb view... Right in front of the spot where they think the enemy will set up his first forces, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, September 14, 1870 September 14, 1870 Honoré Daumier. Monsieur will be very satisfied here: a superb view... Right in front of the spot where they think the enemy will set up his first forces, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, September 14, 1870. 'News of the day' (Actualités). Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808-1879 Valmondois). September 14, 1870. Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil). Prints

Abdication of Mary Stuart. Mary, Queen of Scots, 8 December 1542, 8 February 1587, also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Shooting hut. French School. Engraving.

The End of the Afghan War - The Ameer Signing the Treaty of Peace at Gandamak, May th, The end of the Afghanistan War, the Emir signs the peace treaty in Gandamak, Major Cavagnari from The Graphic, Unknown

Waterloo : George IV is given a guided tour of the Waterloo battlefield by Wellington himself. Date: circa 1820

FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR: AN AMBULANCE THE AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE OF SPICHEREN 1870

And what was there in your margoulin letter [... [PL.17 (registered title) | Military Baliffering. (Title of the whole)

Franco-Prussian War

Peace of Pressburg (1805) between Napoleon and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. Signed in Pressburg (nos Bratislava). Engraving. Our Century (Nuestro Siglo),1883. Spanish edition.

Van der Snuijff's mother comes to an officer worried about where her son is spending the night. Part of a series of ca. 24 cartoons from 1828 on the imbalances within the Belgian militia due to social inequality within the corps, after the reorganisation introduced on 11 April 1827, Fourteenth tribulation, 1828 14th Tribulation. Vandersnuijf egar, print maker: J. Richez, (mentioned on object), Southern Netherlands, 1828, paper, h 271 mm × w 222 mm

Louis XI persuades Edward IV to return home of a sum of money, Anonymous

Nobody's Children' 2: The Manufactured Article. Destitute boys rescued from the London streets being trained to be sailors on the naval training ship 'Chichester'. Illustration by Frederick Barnard (1846-1896) from 'Cassell's Magazine' (London, c1867).

An engraving depicting The crew of HMS Bounty , landing on Otaheiti (Tahiti) and being presented with gifts of a small pig and a plantain, 1788. The purpose of William Bligh's voyage in HMS.Bounty,(1788) was to col1ect, Breadfruit plants from Otaheite (Tahiti) in the Pacific islands so that they could be grown in the West Indi es as a cheap source of food for Slaves. 1815

Attempted attack on Edward, Prince of Wales in Brussels, 1900. Artist: Unknown

France, 1871 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

Officier Municipal, French Revolution

Engraving depicting the execution of Lieutenant Colonel Santiago, during the Peninsular War. Dated 1809

Munster Peace Ratification Handing, 1648. Closing Munster Peace in the freespersensal of the Munster City Hall. Central to the exchange of ratification between the State and Spanish delegated Antoine Brun and De Graaf van Peñaranda. On the left the state delegates sitting around a table.

EPISODE OF THE REVOLUTION OF 1830. (IT)

France, 1835 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

We are waiting for the Republic.

The emir Yakoob Khan and Major Louis Cavagnari signing the Treaty of Gundamuck, 1870, engraving from a sketch by Simpson, 1879. Second Anglo-Afghan War, Afghanistan, 19th century.

THE MASSACRES AT BATAK, THE TRIAL OF THE BASHI-BAZOUKS AT PHILIPPOPOLIS; A VERY TEDIOUS AFFAIR

Interrogation of Italian brigants in Aquila, Page of the newspaper About the Land and Sea, th year , No, Interrogation of Italian brigants in Aquila, Unknown

Parade bed from Prince Frederik, 1799; The deceased Prince Fredrik, lying on the parade bed, regretted by his officers!. Willem George Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau, lying in uniform on his parade bed in Padua, January 6, 1799. To the bed lending soldiers.

Cartoon showing Uncle Sam and General McClellan standing before a playbill which reads: Every day this week onward to Richmond by a select company of star generals. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Stanton, Edwin M, (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869, McClellan, George B, (George Brinton), 1826-1885, Uncle Sam (Symbolic character), 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Generals, Union, 1860-1870, United States

THE WAR IN THE EAST

Cromwell dissolves the Long Parliament

The illustration shows the death bed science of an American officer, Henry-Alonzo Huntington. Huntington lies dead in bed, while one of his estranged sons, Henry Huntington, shoots dead another brother. A sister lies fatally wounded, while another wounded brother, blood pouring from his midsection, crawls away in horror. Two other sisters throw their arms up in horror.

You see before you the winner of JemmaPes and Valmy ... (IT)

THE OPENING OF THE ROYAL NAVAL EXHIBITION BY THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES

News. / 134. / New Policy Urn Project for the use of the French people. (Title registered (letter)) | News. (Title of all)

Whose the turn .... to you brave Mexican! .... Approach my boy! .... Have you serve! (Registered title) | News. (Title of all)

Meeting at the border of the Russian Empire in winter; 1880-1890 (1880-00-00-1890-00-00);

Robert E. Lee was the general in chief of the Confederate Army in the U.S. (American) Civil War. On April 26, 1865, Confederate general Johnston and Union general Grant met at the house of James Bennett (pictured here) near Durham's Station, in Orange County, North Carolina, and agreed upon the terms of capitulation to be precisely the same as those at Appomatox Courthouse. In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E Lee surrendered his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the

Route planner of Champigny opposite the Tremblay farm / end of October 1870 (registered title) | The third invasion. War of 1870-1871. (title of all)

THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF TUNIS, THE BEY SIGNING THE TREATY WITH FRANCE AT THE BARDO PALACE, MAY 12, 1881; M. Roustan, General Breart, The Bey

Federal troops occupying the South Carolina courthouse, electoral crisis in the United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1769, Volume LXIX, January 20, 1877.

Chinese men and women join British army staff in an evening feast. Lithograph, ca. 1840/1850.

Rastattier Messenstorm

Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament, Anonymous

Russia, 1853-1854. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Russia

Members of the reinforced Austrian Reichsrath, Members of the reinforced Austrian Reich Council, including Heinrich Jaroslav Gf, Clam-Martinic, Metropolit Andrei Schaguna, Count Aponyi etc, from Illustrirte Zeitung , Philipp Felix Kanitz -, Artist

The quadrille of lancers.

The fatal wounding of Admiral Nelson : a popular representation of the time Date: 21 October 1805

Armed gentlemen in a departure, Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784 print In a departure there is a group of men with raised swords around a man with blindfold. On the right a man has gotten out of his chair behind a table. Print at the top right marked: pl. III. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving hacking and thrusting weapons: rapier

Souvenirs of the seat of Paris / 23 / Surgeons of the NAT / Army & Army (IT)

Ingenieurs-Korps, Fuss-Artillerie, z cyklu "Die Soldaten Friedrichs des Grossen". Menzel, Adolph (1815-1905), draughtsman, cartoonist, Kretzschmar, Eduard (1807-1858), woodcutter

Marie Antoinette is taken to the Guillotine, 1793. Marie Antoinette is brought to the guillotine on October 16, 1793 on Place de la Révolution (nowadays Place de la Concorde). Soldiers on the foreground, seen on the back. In the margin a two-person caption in Dutch.

Assassination of the American President Abraham Lincoln, April 14, 1865, United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1159, Volume XLV, May 13, 1865.

A form of Peace Manoeuvres adopted by armed forces to exercise troops and allow them to make up plans of the countryside that they march in. They march for between 8 and 10 miles in 2 1/2 hours. The 78th Highlanders or Rosshire Buffs have halted to allow the men a brief rest and some have asked leave to 'fall out'. They take advantage of an inn near by but this catches the eye of superior powers and a sergeant and corporal are despatched to bring the delinquents back to the ranks; the bugle sign

Bacon demands the commission of Berkeley

First Sino-Japanese War. European prisoners of the Japanese in the Siege of port Arthur. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895

Spanish-American War. War between Spain and the United States in 1898, as a result of the US intervention in the Cuban war of Independence. Madrid, Spain. Queen Regent Maria Christina of Habsburg-Lorraine visiting repatriated wounded soldiers at the Hospital del Buen Suceso. Illustration by Comba. Photoengraving by Laporta. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1898. Author: Juan Comba García (1852-1924). Spanish illustrator.

Banquet on ship Floride, engraving

Boer War: a soldier reads out good news from the front as others cheer and a barber stops work. Halftone, 1900, after F. Dadd after H. Egersdorfer.

In an austere interior, three women and two men, probably soldiers, greet each other. One of the men is wearing a uniform and the women are wearing long gowns. In the room is a table with books and one of the windows has a crack, Welcoming soldiers Such a moment makes one forget years of Smart , print maker: Willem Kok, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1803, paper, h 96 mm × w 121 mm

Home from the war , Soldiers, Homecomings, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865

In our turn, now! You have to finish!

The presentation of the ratification of the Peace of Munster, 1648, Anonymous, 1648 print Closing the peace of Munster in the Friedensal of the town hall of Munster. Central the exchange of the ratification between the State and Spanish delegates Antoine Brun and the count of Peñaranda. On the left the State delegates sitting around a table. Northern Netherlands paper engraving signing of peace treaty, concluding the peace Friedensal

Military sketch./6./ KNOWN OF A P'TIT BONHOMME! Which zyes have women in this country !! ... (title registered (letter)) | military sketch. (Title of all)

Napoleon sells stolen well, 1813, Thomas Rowlandson, 1813 print Cartoon on the fall of Napoleon after the lost battle of Leipzig in 1813. Napoleon as an auctioneer who sells the stolen crowns of European countries. Central the French General Berthier keeps the Spanish crown up. Right representatives of European countries. In the foreground a British sailor and a thick Dutchman. Behind it the king of Württemberg, a Russian Kozak and a Prussian hussar. A standing Spaniard reaches to the crown. On the ground a pile of crowns and documents that will still be offered for sale. Behind Napoleon is his wife Marie Louise with their son Napoleon II, the king of Rome, with a monkey's head. The print includes a separate explanation. print maker: Englandpublisher: London paper etching auction sale, public sale. political caricatures and satires

Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century, members of the Vienna Volunteer Corps, Second Italian War of Independence, around 1859, Austria, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century, members of the Vienna Volunteer Corps, Second Italian War of Independence, around 1859, Austria.

Royal Flying corps assemble aircraft at Farnborough; England during World war one 1917

King of Taiping's bodyguards, China. Old XIX century engraved Journey from Shanghai to Moscow Le Tour du Monde 1864

A pencil and watercolor painting by Carl Schindler depicting a farewell scene of a quartered officer from Infantry Regiment No. 49, created in 1840, focusing on figures, uniforms, and military context.

''H.R.H. The Prince of Russia Investing H.R.H. The Prince of Wales with the Order of the Black Eagle in Berlin', 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891.

To reassemble this rifle, the regulation gives you ... / 31 (registered title (letter)) | military sketch. (Title of all)

Gift to Admiral Bailli de Suffren on behalf of the States General, 1784.Presentation of the gift of a golden degen to the French Admiral Pierre André de Suffren de Saint-Tropez, due to his merits in the fight against the English in East Indies, 1784 . The people will be handed over on behalf of the States General by G. Brantsen and L'Estévenon van Berkenrode.

In v'la sic inventions. ... / 28. (registered title) | Garrison memories. (IFF 27) (title of all)

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