Historical Warfare Illustrations

Engravings depicting historical conflicts, slave raids, and military engagement during various wars between the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Gordon's native soldiers carry the wounded (including General Sir Herbert Stewart) to Korti. Date: 1885

Slavers making a raid on an Abyssinian village to capture slaves to be sold in the Sudan. Engraving, London, 1884.

A SKETCH AT THE LANDING PLACE, CANTON, AFTER THE FIGHT

Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast). Wood engraving c1880

events War of the Sixth Coalition 1812 - 1814 Russian campaign 1812 French camp at Borodino 7.9.1812 wood engraving after drawing by Albrecht Adam (1767 - 1862),

Egypt Suez Canal under construction 1859 - 1869 worker during ground works wood engraving ""The Illustrated London News"" 1869,

Gordon's native soldiers carry the wounded (including General Sir Herbert Stewart) to Korti. Date: 1885

Historia. Cayo Julio César (100 a. C.-44 a. C.) pasando el río Segre el año 49 a. C.. Grabado de 1871.

Currier & Ives Illustration 19th Century. Marion's Brigade Crossing the Pedee river, S.C. 1778

A Journey into the Herzegovina: Fire at a Gunpowder Depot at Grahovo, 1876. ' It is reported from Constantinople that the new Government of Sultan Mourad V. will allow an armistice of six weeks. But, on the other hand, it has been noticed that the proclamation announcing the contemplated reforms of the new reign does not even mention the insurgents, and is absolutely silent about the special privileges offered them by Abdul Aziz. There can be no doubt that the new Turkish Government, though they intend introducing liberal reforms, have followed up their refusal to endorse the Berlin programme

On the dark road. Illustration from the Charles Dickens novel Dombey and Son by H.K. Browne known as Phiz

Expedition of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904). Welsh journalist and explorer. The prisoner Uavuma. Engraving. 19th century. Colored.

Cortez leaving the habor of San Jago, historic discoveries by ship

LIEUT. CAMERON'S RECEPTION BY KATENDE, AFRICA, 1876

THE MUTINY IN INDIA

German Army around 1880, Prussian Artillery and Train, Prussian Uhlan, Hessian Dragoon Trumpeter, Prussian Cuirassier and Hussar, Bavarian Infantryman, Saxon Rifleman and Carabineer, Wurttemberg Dragoon, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known

Illustration showing early British colonists in Queensland (Police officers preparing for engagement against Aborigines) Australia. Dated 1860.

A group of Mormons in 1880 making the trek west in the conquest of America, settlers, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Nègres chasseurs rentrant en ville left. Le retour des nègres d'un naturaliste right.. Debret, Jean Baptiste (1768-1848). Prints, Illustrations. 1834 - 1839. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Brazil , Social life and customs, Monkeys, Blacks , Brazil, Game & game birds, Naturalists, Snakes, Butterfly nets, Hunters

events Northern Seven Years' War 1563 - 1570 naval battle between Gotland and Oland victory of the Danish-Luebeck fleet over the Swedish navy wood engraving 19th century historic historical,

Jean Baptiste Taverniers expedition by anonymous artist, painting, Private Collection

The French conquest of Senegal, 1779. Colonialism, Senegal, 18th century.

Indian sepoys, Anglo-Persian War , 1856 - 1857 Indian sepoys, Anglo-Persian War , 1856 - 1857 Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21665093

THE ASHANTEE WAR

The doctor Gustav Hermann saves a slave from whipping, Chad. Central Africa. Drawing by Ivan Pranishnikoff (1841 - 1909) Journey from Borno to Baguirmi 1872 by Dr. Gustav Hermann Nachtigal (1834 - 1885) Le Tour du Monde 1880

Arab slave traders with a convoy of captives with slave forks round their necks. Engraving, Paris, 1888.

James Cook meets the Tahitians, engraving, 18th Century.

THE ASHANTEE WAR

An engraving depicting an ox-cart with a crude solid wheel. In the background, men construct a bamboo bridge across the lagoon, by which to retreat when the Japanese attack the forts. Dated 19th century

España. Siglo XIX. Epidemia de la fiebre amarilla en 1811, durante la Guerra de la Independencia Española (1808-1814). Ilustración por Francisco Pérez. Litografía por Julio Donón. Historia del Levantamiento, Guerra y Revolución de España, por el Conde de Toreno. Madrid,1851.

The 3rd Saxon riders regiment in the battle at Buzaney, 27th August, 1870, illustrated war history, German, French war 1870-1871, Germany, France, 3rd Saxon riders regiments in the battle at Buzaney, 27th August, 1870, illustrated war history, German, French war 1870-1871, Germany, France, Europe

A PUBLIC EXECUTION AT COOMASSIE, THE ASHANTEE WAR 1873. Anglo-Ashanti Wars between the Ashanti Empire, now Ghana, and the British Empire in the 19th century

Fishing Khoikhoi, Abraham Zeeman, 1727 print European men watch Khoikhoi fishing. In the background ships for anchor. Top right: 2nd part, p. 117. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving Khoikhoi. Fishing (Sports) South Africa

A Zouave Encampment, 1886, Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (1848-1912), coloured engraving. Colonial Wars, Tunisia 19th century.

A convoy of emigrants attacked by Native Americans Date: 1876

Stanley threatens to shoot a porter during the mutiny in Gombe, travel and exploration by Henry Morton Stanley, expedition how I found Livingstone in Central Africa 1871-1872. Old engraving El Mundo en la Mano 1878

Africa. Zimbabwe. Matabele Warriors in what is present- day Zimbabwe. Engraving, 1876.

Africa, war dance in the Matabele tribe, AmaNdebele, Ndebele, Zimbabwe, in Southeast Africa, 1880 / Afrika, Kriegstanz im Stamm der Matabele, AmaNdebele, Ndebele, Simbabwe, in Südostafrika, 1880, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhunder.

Jacques is attached to the pole torture, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

A field gang of slaves working on a plantation guarded by overseers in Martinique circa 1826. After an engraving in the book Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amèriques by Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny,

''The Palaver between Lewanika and Mr. F.E. Lochner; acting on behalf of The British South Africa Company', 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891.

From the prison to the grave, Colombia. Old 19th century engraved illustration. Travel to New Granada by Charles Saffray from El Mundo en La Mano 1879

Pearl fishermen in India, around 1895, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated 1f-4898399

Soko monkey hunt. The Last Journals of David Livingstone Scottish missionary and explorer, 1866-1873. Old engraving El Mundo en la Mano 1878

David Livingstone entering the hut at Ilala on the night that he died.

The old landing-place. Date: 1858

Sutah was one of the towns which the British took on their expedition to defeat the King of Ashanti during the 2nd Ashanti War (1873-74). In 1873, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana, the British attacked and virtually destroyed the Asanti capital of Kumasi, and officially declared Ghana a crown colony on 24 July 1874. Date: 28 February 1874

Dracht en Wapening der Hottentots. The Hottentots Cloathing and their armes.. Ogilby, John (1600-1676). Illustrations, Prints. 1670. General Research Division. South Africa, Islands of the Indian Ocean, Islands of the Atlantic, Africa , Description and travel, Arms & armament, Khoikhoi (African people)

An engraving depicting a South African Diamond Field. The Overseer directs the native labourers in how to extract the diamonds by washing the deposits on screens. Dated 19th century

The water supply to Cape Coast Castle, headquarters of the British in the Gold Coast. In 1873, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana, the British attacked and virtually destroyed the Asanti capital of Kumasi, and officially declared Ghana a crown colony on 24 July 1874. They then moved their administrative capital from Cape Coast Castle to Accra. Date: 24 January 1874

Norman warriors in boat 10th Century AD. Normans were regarded by their French neighbours as pirates and heathens

Travelling in India - Officers joining the Indian Army on Service, 1850. '...the new arrangement for dak travelling, which has superseded the palankeen, being neither more nor less than a palankeen on wheels. It has a well, so that the passengers may be able to sit as well as lie down. The bearers find it easier to drag this, than to carry the palankeen. With this contrivance, five miles an hour can be done easily. About 20 men are employed at a time - some carrying the banglues or boxes slung to a bamboo, and the remainder are at the carriage. In this way, travelling day and night, allowing a

Engraving showing the meeting between Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) (on left, raising hat) and David Livingstone (1813-1873) (on right, raising hat) at Ujiji, Tanganyika, 10th November 1871. Stanley, a British-American explorer and journalist, had been sent by James Gordon Bennett to 'find' Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and explorer, who had not made contact with other Europeans for some time. Date: 10 November 1871

Aogousto Begs for Mercy in Front of Major Serpa Pinto in Angola, Southern Africa, drawing by Bayard based on a sketch and writings by Serpa Pinto, vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, 1881

Illustration depicting a camp for 'navvies' - the workmen being served oatmeal and water. Dated 19th century

General Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863 1934), French military officer and explorer in Africa. Marchand is best known for commanding the French expeditionary force during the Fashoda Incident. Seen here in a hand coloured photograph on his mission to explore the sources of the Niger River and the Nile and to occupy the area around Fashoda, Sudan, now known as Kodok, and bring it under French control. After a 24-month trek on foot and by boat from Loango at the mouth of the Congo River Marchland's expedition arrived at Fashoda, an abandoned fort on the Nile, on 10 July 1898.

German Peasants' War, 1524-1526, After the capture of the town of Lauda, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

Fuegians at Woollya, with the expedition's camp in the background. From Robert Fitzroy 'Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle', Vol. II, London, 1839. Fitzroy was captain of the Beagle on the circumnavigation of 1831 when Charles Darwin was naturalist on the expedition.

Stanley and his African companions on the return trip to Zanzibar, Henry Morton Stanley and his African companions on the return trip to Sansibar from Ruppius Sonntagsblatt , William Heysham Overend -, Artistist

Serbo-Bulgarian War: the Russian General Dragomirov being treated for his wounds. Wood engraving.

The Camp of Saint Maur, Camp of the Guards and Infantrymen of the French Army, 1869, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Europe

The French mission, led by Marchand, arrives in Addis Ababa Date: 11 March 1899

David Livingstone (1813-1873), the explorer, being welcomed by the Shinte, Africa 19th Century.

General Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863 - 1934), French military officer and explorer in Africa. Marchand is best known for commanding the French expeditionary force during the Fashoda Incident. Seen here in a hand coloured photograph on his mission to explore the sources of the Niger River and the Nile and to occupy the area around Fashoda, Sudan, now known as Kodok, and bring it under French control. After a 24-month trek on foot and by boat from Loango at the mouth of the Congo River Marchland's

Loon na werk 1780. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 778. International relations,1780. , Assault and battery,1780. , United States,History,Revolution, 1775-1783.

Military Costume early in the reign of Edward III, vintage engraved illustration. Colorful History of England, 1837.

Slaves working on a plantation, USA, late 18th century (c1880). Artist: Unknown

THE REBELLION IN THE SOUDAN (SUDAN), THE RELIEF OF TOKAR, AFTER THE SECOND BATTLE OF TEB

The Tonkin Campaign (French: Campagne du Tonkin) was a armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there. The campaign, complicated in August 1884 by the outbreak of the Sino-French War and in July 1885 by the Can Vuong nationalist uprising in Annam, which required the diversion of large numbers of French troops, was conducted by the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, supported by the gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla. The campaign officially ended in April 1886, when the expeditionary corps was reduced in size to a division of occupation, but Tonkin was not effectively pacified until 1896. The Black Flag Army (Chinese: Heiqi Jun) was a remnant of a bandit group that may have been former Taiping rebels that crossed the border from Guangxi province in China into Upper Tonkin, in the Empire of Ann

View of the village of Coffin, Guinea. West Africa. Drawing by Ivan Pranishnikoff (1841 - 1909) Journey to the Baga and Rio Nunez countries 1884-1885 by Lieutenant Andre Coffinieres de Nordeck (1866 - 1908) Le Tour du Monde 1886

Illustration showing the unloading of cotton from blockade-running ships at Nassa, New Providence, 1864. As the American Civil War progressed the Confederate states became more and more desperate to get their cotton past the Federal naval blockade. Date: 1864

Square in the village of Taigbe, Guinea. West Africa. Drawing by Ivan Pranishnikoff (1841 - 1909) Journey to the Baga and Rio Nunez countries 1884-1885 by Lieutenant Andre Coffinieres de Nordeck (1866 - 1908) Le Tour du Monde 1886

An engraving depicting Breton workers, with salt pans in the background. Dated 19th century

Slaves Digging For Gold Under Spanish Command 1594 Theodor de Bry (1528-1598 Netherlandish) Colored Copperplate

An engraving depicting a Litter, a wheel less vehicle which would be carried by footmen. Dated 19th Century

Garnet Wolseley of the British troops on the march to Khartoum in 1884, print from The Illustrated London News. Colonial wars, Sudan, 19th century.

Newspaper correspondents' quarters in the camp at Prahsu. The man seated is the Times correspondent. Of the three men standing together represent, from left to right, the New York Herald, the Illustrated London News (middle) and the Standard newspapers here to report on war. The second Ashanti War fought between,1873-74, was between King Kofi Karikari, ruler of the Ashanti (or Asantehene), and the British. Both were trying to secure the coastal town of Elmina on the West Coast of Africa also

Military camp in England, a soldier lays tar or felt to seal the base of the tent to stop water leaks entering.

justice crime robbery highwaymen raiding a coach in Imperial period Mexico,

The United States of Colombia (Estados Unidos de Colombia (1863-1886). Official denomination adopted in 1863 by the Rionegro Constitution for the Granadine Confederation, after years of civil war. Colombia became a federal state itself composed of nine sovereign states. Field studies for the Panama Canal construction project. Definitive studies for the drilling of the isthmus of Panama. The Engineering Commission in the scientific station of Paraiso. Engraving by Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). La Ilustracion Española y Americana, 1881.

Russian Soldiers with a Barber. Dated: 1816. Dimensions: plate: 14 x 16.6 cm (5 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.) sheet: 15 x 17.3 cm (5 7/8 x 6 13/16 in.). Medium: etching heightened with white on gray-green paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JOHANN ADAM KLEIN.

'Paraguayan sentinel:"No Tengo Ordines."; A visit to Paraguay during the war', 1875. From, 'Illustrated Travels' by H.W. Bates. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London

Reception at Bougoman village, South-East of Logone, Chad. Central Africa. Drawing by Ivan Pranishnikoff (1841 - 1909) Journey from Borno to Baguirmi 1872 by Dr. Gustav Hermann Nachtigal (1834 - 1885) Le Tour du Monde 1880

THE REBELLION IN THE SOUDAN (SUDAN), THE MATERIAL WITH WHICH BAKER PASHA WAS EXPECTED TO DEFEAT THE REBELS

Blessed are the peacemakers. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 849. George,III,King of Great Britain,1738-1820. , Lansdowne, William Petty,Marquis of,1737-1805. , International relations,1780-1790. , Punishment & torture,1780-1790. , United States,History,Revolution, 1775-1783.

A Bullet Explodes on Three Natives in Angola, Southern Africa, drawing by Bayard based on a sketch by Serpa Pinto, vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, 1881

A scene from the Gold Coast - a Grand Palaver at Jellah Coffee between the Administrator and the native kings and chiefs. From left to right, Folu, King of Jellah Coffee; Adjaba, King of Awoonah; Cocumay, War Captain of Awoonah and Okobim Paba, Chief Ashanti Ambassador on the left of the image. On the right, from left to right, Tubolu the interpreter, Commodore Sir William N.W. Hewitt, Charles C. Lees the acting administrator of the Gold Coast and H. Gibson the Secretary to the Commodore. Be

Engraving depicting a New Zealand war canoe. Dated 19th century

Deposition of Witness Statement of Abdul Ahy in front of the Cadi of Zeila and the French Naval Commander Alphonse Fleuriot de Langle (1809-1881) following the assassination of Henri Lambert, Africa, drawing by Auguste Hadamard (1823-1886) Voyage of Henri Lambert. Le Tour du Monde 1862

Watercolour - War Dance Nicholas Roe (active 1850 - 1896)

Illanoan Pirates from Tampassook, Borneo. Engraving after the original by Samuel Francis Marryat (1826-1855). "Los Héroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra" (The Heroes and the Grandeurs of the Earth). Volume VIII. 1856.

American Civil War Slave labour strengthening the fortifications of Savannah, Georgia Published in the Illustrated London News of 18 April 1863 Wood engraving

They waved their spears, their bows, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Mistress Branican, 1891.

In one of the earliest depictions of African Slavery in the New World, in which African slaves pour ore in front of European soldiers. In the background, slaves work in the mines. This 1595 engraving published by Theodor de Bry is based on an image in Girolamo Benzoni's, 'Historia del Mondo Nuovo,' Venice, 1565 (BSLOC_2020_1_127)

The English lion dismember'd or the voice of the public for an enquiry into public expenditure. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975, no. 767. North, Frederick,Lord,1732-1792. , Lions,1780. , Government spending policy,England,1780. , Economic aspects of war,England,1780. , Public opinion,England,1780. , United States,History,Revolution, 1775-1783.

The Ashanti War, Invalids embarking at Cape Coast Castle, 1874

German colonial African soldiers in the Cameroons, West Central Africa, World War One 1915

Cameron, Verney Lovett (1844-1894). British traveler and explorer. Cameron's Expedition to Central Africa (July 15, 1875). Nineteenth-century engraving.

The new kind of tents were made of willows, the tent of an officer, 1855, woodcut, england

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). Zimnitza. Military hospital for sick and wounded Russians. Interior. Engraving by Rico in the Spanish and American Illustration, 1877.

A Maroon rebellion in the Dutch West Indies. (Copied from Stedman's illustration, "March through a swamp.") Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.

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