Historical Warriors and Conflicts

Photographs of various groups of soldiers and warriors from the 19th century, depicting military gatherings and conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

***** Punjab Refugees: Sikh-Hindu Refugees Trek From Lahore into India -- A typical scene on the main road between Lahore, Pakistan and Ferozepur, India, as many thousands of Sikh-Hindu refugees with them their belongings. There was no rest for the weary during the long trek Eastwards August 27, and many of the refugees were killed during clashes Pakistan to 'safe' areas. Moslems also were travelling from many parts of India towards Lahore. September 7, 1947.

Druze Sheikh el Atrash and warriors. 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

The Second Anglo-Afghan War was waged between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880. A consequence of the Great Game between Britain and Russia, the conflict was instigated by the latter sending an uninvited diplomatic mission to Kabul, despite the wishes and protestations of Sher Ali Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan. When a British demand for their own diplomatic mission was refused, the Second Anglo-Afghan War commenced.

06/30/1921. Melilla. Spanish-Moroccan Party in Beni-Said the Commander, General Silvestre (X), Touring the place of the party Organized by the Melilla regiment (photo Lázaro).

Dancing Russ. Soldiers in Odessa.

State visit to Jerusalem of Wilhelm II of Germany in 1898 Close-up of royal party at Tomb of Kings. 1898, Israel

The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location. This card date from the conclusion of the third Anglo-Afghan war of 1919. A Kuchi Family (a wandering trans-border tribe) moving to the Peshawar Plains at the onset of the cold winter months. Date: circa 1920

Yatta political drama, Dec. 18, 1938, West Bank, Yatta, Middle East

Algerian soldiers

Melilla, 1909. Three heroes of the Melilla campaign. Captain Don Emilio Pérez Aramil (1) and soldiers Jorge Aguilar (2) and Manuel Pajares (3) who on the 17th completely defeated a group of Moors, seizing their weapons: a gumía (in the hands of Aguilar), two rifles and various cartridges.

***** Punjab Refugees: Sikh-Hindu Refugees Trek From Lahore into India -- A typical scene on the main road between Lahore, Pakistan and Ferozepur, India, as many thousands of Sikh-Hindu refugees with them their belongings. There was no rest for the weary during the long trek Eastwards August 27, and many of the refugees were killed during clashes Pakistan to 'safe' areas. Moslems also were travelling from many parts of India towards Lahore. September 7, 1947.

Pompiers , Fire engines, Fire fighters. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. patrol reached settlement settlement immediately held direction board officer Post Wamena. Animo treatment great. September 1958. Guinea, Wamena

Men from the Sahel, Arab fighters recruited into the Italian forces, Tripoli, Libya, Italian-Turkish war, photograph by Emegi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIX, No 11, March 17, 1912.

World War I 1914-1918: German soldiers relaxing in their trench during a lull in fighting.

Crowd of men and women getting water from spigots, possibly at the Jerusalem Waterworks at Ain Arroub. 1917, Israel

Montenegro - an outpost of the Malissori

Seoul is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of more than 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the developed world. The Seoul Capital Area, which includes the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province, is the world's second largest metropolitan area with over 25.6 million people, home to over half of South Koreans along with 632,000 international residents. During the Korean War, Seoul changed hands between the Chinese-backed North Korean forces and the UN-backed South Korean forces several times, leaving the city heavily damaged after the war. One estimate of the extensive damage states that after the war, at least 191,000 buildings, 55,000 houses, and 1,000 factories lay in ruins. In addition, a flood of refugees had entered Seoul during the war, swelling the population of Seoul and its metropolitan area to an estimated 2.5 million, more than half of them homeless.

10/27/1905. Odessa - Groups of Armed Revolutionary Countrymen Walking the Streets of the City.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Italian soldiers planting the Italian flag and pennant on the Girreh redoubt, Somalia, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVII, No 35, September 1, 1940.

The Sultan of Gheledi's warriors standing before Major Antonino di Giorgio (1867-1932) in Benadir, Somalia, photograph by Italo Gentilucci, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXV, No 48, November 29, 1908.

08/31/1909. Convoy Preparations. Soldiers Placing the Load on the Shoulders of a Camel. On the Left, the Algerian Drivers.

The service groups are on a march. The South Service Group was sent by the Chinese Communist Party to Fujian to participate in the liberation takeover during the Chinese Civil War.

02/29/1912. The Rif campaign. General Aldave and his staff in the new position of Tumiat Giving Instructions to the Column Leaders for the withdrawal of their Forces, and Congratulating the Troops for their speed in fortifying the new position.

09/30/1909. Three Heroes of the Campaign. Wad Corporal Manuel Sastre Castroverde, Cornet Germán Diana and Soldier Fidel Ortiz, who fought bravely against the Rifeños, containing a large group that attacked them, and which they put in dispersion, leaving the fight safe and sound.

12/31/1910. Alpine Excursion of the Spanish Gymnastic Society of the Excursionists, among whom were Officers and Students of the Engineers and Infantry Academies, in La Morcuera.

09/20/1982. Tribute to the Flag.

Archers of the Chosen or Korean Empire, Archery

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Arab school and scholars at Basra.

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Native African women and children at their settlement taken over by the British Army.

Kurdish Soldiers, One of 274 Vintage Photographs , late 19th-early 20th century. Albumen silver photograph, 4 7/8 x 8 9 /16 in. (12.4 x 21.7 cm). Arts of the Islamic World late 19th-early 20th century

Distribution of food to the redeemed population, Slovenia, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 38, September 19, 1915.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Marriage dance T.g.V. Construction airport Andjai surrounding Kampongs. undated. Guinea

Senussi going to fight English in Egypt

Spanish-American War, between Spain and the USA in 1898, due to the US intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The first flag of truce after the battle of El Caney (Cuba). White flag in the Yankee lines. Engraving. " La Ilustración Iberíca", 1898.

09/01/1909. The Salacotes for the Army. Delivery of the Salacotes to the Soldiers of the Madrid Hunters battalion.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Locust plagues in Palestine. Methods of fighting the locust plague. Rollcall in the locust camp. In desert country south of Beersheba. 1930, Israel, Beersheba

Khyber Chiefs and Khans with Captain Tucker, Political officer in Jamrood Fort. John Burke (Irish, about 1843 - 1900)

A Haitian policeman.. Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927. Photographs, Illustrations. 1910. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Streets, Police, Haitians

'Best mortar squad in the 372nd' infantry , Soldiers, Mortars Ordnance, United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 372nd. Jack Miller Collection

British expedition to Tibet 1903-1904 also known as the Younghusband expedition after the British commander, colonel Francis Younghusband.

08/21/1907. Casablanca - Spanish troops in front of the Spanish consulate.

CUBANOS EN LA GUERRA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA FRENTE AL PALACIO DE LOS CAPITANES GENERALES DE LA HABANA, SIGLO XIX. Location: EXTERIOR. LA HABANA.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

colonel Burnaby with Nubian servant at the British base in the Crimea 1854

Locust trap 1925, Middle East

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Wait in Kramat. The KNIL waits during a pause. 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

The Kollo, Montenegrin national dance, photograph by Eduardo Ximenes (1852-1932), from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIII, No 43, October 25, 1896.

Sharpening sickles 1900 Middle East

10/31/1916. The War in the Balkans. Driving Wounded Serbs Through the Macedonian Mountains.

Vera Cruz -- house of sick woman guarded by our sailors

Palestine events. The 1929 riots, August 23 to 31. British troops at Damascus Gate. One gate open the other blocked by guards. 1929, Jerusalem

Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. Pilots of No. 134 Squadron RAF work out their tactics in the shade of some small trees, in front of their Republic Thunderbolts parked on the airstrip at Ratnap, Burma.

Italo-turkish war. 1912.

Public square at Larissa, two days before its capture by the Turks , Soldiers, Firearms, Plazas, Greco-Turkish War, 1897

mongolia, raid pechino-parigi, l'itala ferma ad un pozzo nel deserto dei gobi, 1907

Emir Saud's visit to Emir Abdullah in Amman. Emir Saud & Talal (Emir Abdullah's son) at a military display in his honour, closer view. 1935, Jordan, Amman

March 1917. The War on the Western Front. French Soldiers Firing Bomb Launchers in the Somme Region.

Polishing rice in a bottle, a Korean Laborer and his family are shown as they keep house the bombed out rubble of Hakata, Fukuoka Perfecture, Kyushu, Japan, while awaiting a ship to take them home to Korea. November 11, 1945. (Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo).

These are the types of men who quailed before the fiery former mill girl from Dundee. February 09, 1955. (Photo by Daily Mirror).;These are the types of men who quailed before the fiery former mill girl from Dundee.

Japanese officials, Korea, 1900. Artist: Unknown

Photograph of British prisoners at Dunkirk, France. Dated 1940

(French - Quweira , Arabie ( actuelle Jordanie ) Combattants des forces arabes du Hedjaz).

Emergency Mass Feeding, Fort Dix, New Jersey 1954 , Civil defense, Audiences. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Chinese coolies in Tientsin, China during Boxer Rebellion, 1900

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Officer shakes the hand of a militiar that stands in a group of citizens and soldiers. In the background the honorary guard. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

12/31/1909. The brotherhood of Pilas makes its entrance in the dew.

Ethiopian Youth Organized -- Ethiopian boys during a march in their new uniform in Addis Adaba. January 25, 1937.

Prisoners -- Zossen, Germ. i.e., Germany

Description: A young recruit enters the Sudan Defence Force Training School. Location: Sudan Date: June 1964 africa

Civil War Drum Corps, Drums & Percussion

People Trafficking Description: East African enslaved people rescued by the British naval ship, HMS Daphne. Date: 1869 children, ship, african, victorian, deck, daphne, slavery, slaves, foreignoffice, 1869, slavetrade, trafficking, enslaved, hmsdaphne

Coronation' of King Abdullah in Amman. Colour party 'Lowering the Colors' when passing saluting base before the king. Corps Elite. 1946, Jordan, Amman

New Photographes Just Received From Addis Ababa, Abyssinia War dance by the Somali. November 7, 1935. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Patrol gang of the 20th Cie. Infantererie II KNIL in Kebajoran. Patrol takes position in a Kampong. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

01/31/1922. Melilla. In full combat. Regular Infantry Soldiers Shooting the Enemy.

Gen. Samuel Sumner's conference with Sultans of Bayang and Oato, at Camp Vicars, Mindanao, P.I. 1902. Capt. John Pershing, in his campaign hat, stands in center behind one Sultan. US occupation forces sought to bring change Moro society in the southern Islamic Philippines, specifically to end Moro practice of Sharia law, polygamy, slavery, woman stealing, and piracy (BSLOC_2017_10_96)

Photograph showing three Germans, survivors of a Concentration Camp, heading for home after 10 years in Nazi captivity, May 1945. These men may well have been political prisoners of the Nazi regime. Date: 1945

Ras Mangascia (1868-1907), Ethiopian general, photograph by L Naretti taken in 1898, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXVI, No 4, January 22, 1899.

The Ryukyu Islands ( Ryukyu-shoto), known in Japanese as the Nansei Islands ( Nansei-shoto, lit. 'Southwest Islands') are a chain of volcanic Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan. The largest of the islands is Okinawa.

Harvesters. October 22, 1939.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Women Kampong applied "breakfast" eaten break. June 1954. Guinea

Captain James Augustus Grant and John Hanning Speke's escorts, discovery of the source of the Nile, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1070, Volume XLI, August 29, 1863.

'Civil and military officials returning from duty; A European Sojourn in Japan', 1875. From, 'Illustrated Travels' by H.W. Bates. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London

PETER O'TOOLE in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962), directed by DAVID LEAN.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Nine male prisoners In Yemen wearing leg irons. Process print.

Crime War - A Russian guard at the tunnel that goes under the railwayline dividing them from the Civil Guards. The blanket designs are traditionally Sotho (they are mostly Basutos from Basutoland) and so are the white panama hats and sticks reinforced with colored wire wound round them in gay patterns. October 05, 1952. (Photo by Drum Photo).;Crime War - A Russian guard at the tunnel that goes under the railwayline dividing them from the Civil Guards. The blanket designs are traditionally Sotho

Description: "Lahej Conference". Photograph of the ""Kings"" taken outside the Palace of the Sultan of Lahej. Sir G. Stewart-Symes, Resident in white uniform, LT Col. B.R. Reilly, Asst Resident in khaki. Location: Aden, Yemen Date: 1930

Black members of 508th Co US Engineers at Menil-LaTour, France, 14 March 1918

Asia. Yemen. San'a. Guards Of The Prince's Palace. 1959

Sevastopol armed uprising of 1905. Crew of the rebel cruiser Ochakov two weeks before the uprising.

08/31/1936. A column of Republican Troops, marching towards the line of fire. Photo: Liborius.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Sint Nicolaas at 2 Ath. Sinterklaas at the Dutch troops in Indie. The first is visited General S.H. Track. Youth had great interest in doing and leaving the Saint. What will happen with general track?. December 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Arab soldiers at a guardhouse high above the area surrounding Jerusalem

09/30/1911. From the Italo-Turkish War. Gates of Benghazi, which has just been occupied by the Italian Army. (photo Meurisse).

Sikh sepoys, non-commissioned and Indian Officers in uniform and mufti Description: Sikh sepoys, non-commissioned and Indian Officers in uniform and mufti Location: North west frontier of India Date: 1933-1935

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