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Medieval Battles and Tournaments

Artistic representations of medieval battles and tournaments, showing knights in combat and various historical scenes from the era.

1400S Henry Vee Of England Speaking To His Army From Armored Horse Before Battle Of Agincourt October 25 1415 15Th Century

The Pugachev's Battle of Kazan on July 1774 (Scene from the Pugachev's Rebellion) by Russian Master / State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/ 1840s/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Russian Painting of 19th cen./ 57,5x70,5/ History

Procession of Horse Guardsmen - London Date: circa 1910s

Painting titled 'Mortally Wounded' by Vasily Vereshchagin. Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (1842-1904) a Russian artist.

Battle of Crecy, 1346.

Illumination depicting the Battle of Barnet fought on Easter Sunday, 1471

Sir Godfrey of Harcourt defeats the men of Amiens Date: 1356

Peeter Boel / 'Armas y pertrechos de guerra', 17th century, Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 169 cm x 313 cm, P01367. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Saxony, Saxon Army, Field Artillery Fires on Charging Cavalry, Royal Saxon 1st Field Artillery Regiment No. 12, Germany, ca 1900, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, exact date unknown, Europe

Oldest depiction of Turkish warriors, digital improved reproduction of an original print 1880, hand drawing from the 15th century in the Germanic Museum Nuremberg, Germany, Europe

The Battle at Gibeon / Illumin. / c.1400

king Charles VII, upon quitting Rouen, sets out besiege the town of Harfleur. 15th century.

Battle of Agen by Charles Gleyre, oil on canvas, 1858, 1808-1874, Private Collection

The duke Albert of Bavaria & his son the count d'Ostrevant set out with their army to conquer Friesland. Date: circa 1390

Soldiers fighting, detail of Queen Mathilda's Tapestry or Bayeux Tapestry depicting Norman conquest of England in 1066, France, 11th century.

History by Polybius. Volume II. French edition translated from Greek by Dom Vincent Thuillier. Comments of Military Science enriched with critical and historical notes by M. De Folard. Paris, chez Pierre Gandouin, Julien-Michel Gandouin, Pierre-Francois Giffart and Nicolas-Pierre Armand, 1727. Printing by Jean-Baptiste Lamesle. Trajan's Dacian Wars. 2nd century AD. Engraving depicting reliefs of the Trajan Column. Siege scene. Dacians attacking the Roman trenches. Later colouration.

Carolingian Empire. The army of Charles the Great fighting to conquer Rome. Miniature from 'Ogier le Danois', illustrated by Antoine Verard (Paris, 1498). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. PIEDMONT. Turin. National Library of the Turin University.

Francia. Período Galorromano. Prefecto romano de la flota fluvial de la Europa occidental llamada "Clasis Anderetianorum", con sede en París y operando en la confluencia entre el río Sena y el Oise. En la embarcación un "signifer" portando el signum o enseña de la centuria. Ilustración en color de la "Armeé Française, Nos Soldats" (Ejército Francés, Nuestros Soldados). Autor, Eugene Hennebert (1826-1896). París, h. 1890. Biblioteca Histórico Militar de Barcelona, Cataluña, España.

American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The citizens of New York receive news about the events in the battles of Lexington and Concord (April, 1775), the first military engagements between American and British forces. Engraving. Colored.

Gouache painting by Franz Wacik depicting the Battle of Belgrade from the life of Prince Eugen, showing figures, horses, and battlefield elements.

The figures represent Germans from A.D. 1350 to 1400. They are, from left to right: Count of Thuringen, knight in battle costume, and two soldiers. The illustration dates to 1882.

Blucher and the first Army of Silesia crossing on the Rhine near to Kaub on January 1st 1814 - Wilhelm Camphausen 1859

Saxony, Saxon Army, Field Artillery Fires on Charging Cavalry, Royal Saxon 1st Field Artillery Regiment No. 12, Germany, ca 1900, Historic, digitally ...

Rubric and full-page miniature showing battle., 1445

Attack on Pontaudemer by Charles VII (1422-1461) FRANCE.

Bertrand du Guesclin or Gueselin (c1320-1380) Eagle of Brittany, French military commander. Guesclin defeating Captal de Buch, 16 May 1364. French military commander during the Hundred Years War. Trade Card

Greek relief of Hoplites in battle. Artist: Unknown

Russian mounted soldiers in the 10th century, drawing after a Slavic manuscript of this period, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Knight in armour. Horse armour. Francois I, 1494-1547. FRANCE.

A war elephant was an elephant trained and guided by humans for combat. Their main use was to charge the enemy, trampling them and breaking their ranks. A division of war elephants is known as elephantry. They were probably first employed in India, the practice spreading out across south-east Asia and westwards into the Mediterranean. Their most famous use in the West was by the Greek general Pyrrhus of Epirus and in great numbers by the armies of Carthage, especially under Hannibal. War Elephants were widely used in Southeast Asia, notably in warfare between Siam and Burma.

Séptima Cruzada, liderada por el rey Luís IX de Francia entre 1248-1254. El cruzado Gautier de Chatillon en Egipto, 1249. Ilustración a color de la "Armeé Française, Nos Soldats" (Ejército Francés, Nuestros Soldados). Autor, Eugene Hennebert (1826-1896). París, h. 1890. Biblioteca Histórico Militar de Barcelona, Cataluña, España.

Battle between Crusaders under Baldwin II of Jerusalem and the Saracens. Miniature from the 'Historia' by William of Tyre by Anonymous / Bibliotheque de Geneve/ 1460s/ France/ Watercolour on parchment/ Medieval art/ History

return of Charles VI of France after the Battle of Roosebeke, 1382, (15th century, Illustration). From the Bibliotheque Municipale, Besancon. The Battle of Roosebeke (sometimes referred to as the Battle of Westrozebeke) took place on 27 November 1382 on the Goudberg (golden mountain) between a Flemish army under Philip van Artevelde and a French army under Louis II of Flanders who had called upon the help of the French king Charles VI after he had suffered a defeat during the Battle of Beverhout

Fashion, Clothing in Europe, War Costumes of the Thirty Years' War, c. 1600-1650, from left, two musketeers c. 1609, two pikemen or jokers and a captain c. 1615, with partisan, the weapon of the pikemen officers, digital improved reproduction after an original from 1900.

This illustration is from a book printed in France and dates to the 15th century. The caption translates: Salisbury, stationed on the second story of the fortress of Tourelles in the preparation for the siege on Orleans is fatally injured by a ball shard

The Battle of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683 after the imperial city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months.

A battle between the forces of Kōshu and Echizan in 1547. Colour woodcut by Yoshitora, 1847/1848.

Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538). German artist, member of the Danube School. The Batlle of Alexander at Issus, 1529. It portrays the 330 BC Batlle of Issus, in which Alexander the Great secured a decisive victory over Daris III of Persia. Detail. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.

Conquest of Jeusalem (1099) - Emile Signol, circa 1847

War scene in an illuminated manuscript, Mevlâna Müzesi, Seljuk Period, Konya, Central Anatolia, Turkey.

Louis XII leaves Alexandria to fight Genoa. 1507. Khight in armour. 16th cent book illustration. Medieval France.

The caption reads: Philip darted forward amid blare of trumpets Philip Augustus and Louis VIII at Battle of Bouvines. The Battle of Bouvines (July 27, 1214) gave a decisive victory to the French kingPhilip IIAugustus over an international coalition of the Holy Roman emperorOtto IV, KingJohnofEngland, and the French vassals-Ferdinand (Ferrand) of Portugal, count ofFlanders, andRenaud(Raynald) of Dammartin, count ofBoulogne. The victoryenhancedthe power and theprestigeof the French monarchy inFranceand in the rest of Europe.

Ottoman wars in Europe. Siege of Rhodes (1480). Military action carried out by the Ottoman army, under Gedik Ahmed Pasha (died, 1482). The aim was to wrest control of the island from the Knights of Rhodes, a military order that emerged during the Crusades. Pierre d'Aubusson (1423-1503), Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, led the defenders. Engraving of "Stabilimenta Rhodiorum", 1496.

Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) English soldier, called 'Chinese Gordon'. His death at Khartoum when city fell to the troops of the Mahdi, 16 January 1885. After painting by GW Joy.

Second Punic War. The Battle of Zama (202 B.C.). A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian force led by Hannibal. Colored engraving. 19th century.

The Siege of Magdeburg (1631) - Pieter Meulener, 1650

TAPIZ DE LA GUERRA DE TUNEZ 1535 - TEJIDO EN 1740 POR ORDEN DE FELIPE V. Author: ANONYMOUS. Location: REALES ALCAZARES. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.

Title Unknown 1978 Stanley Borack (b.1927 American)

The horse show - Battle in front of a palace by Mitsunaga Tokiwa, active 12th century. Print, woodcut, colour. Print shows a confusion of men and horses passing in front of steps possibly leading to a palace during a horse show;some of the men standing on the steps are equipped with bow and arrows, and some of the men appear to be servants who are leading the horses to their warrior masters(there is no fighting taking place in this scene) or horse traders who are showing off the horses, availabl

The Mongols led by Batu Khan into the Battle of the Danube, miniature from a manuscript, French Codex 2623 folio 29, Hungary 13th Century.

Attempt on the life of 1st Consul Napoleon Bonaparte in St-Nicaise street, or Machine infernale plot, Paris, 24 December 1800.

Scene of the Battle of Malplaquet. fought on 11 September 1709 near Mons in the Belgian province of Hainaut. It was one of the major battles in the War of the Spanish Succession. in which an alliance of the Habsburg Monarchy. Great Britain. the United Provinces. and the Kingdom of Prussia fought against the Bourbons of France and Spain. Digital reproduction of a historical original.

Soldier of the Moroccan Imperial Guard, 1845

Soldiers pillaging and looting a house. Illustration by Matthew Paris, thirteenth-century. From The Island Race, a 20th century book that covers the history of the British Isles from the pre-Roman times to the Victorian era. Written by Sir Winston Churchill and abridged by Timothy Baker.

History of Spain. First Carlist War (1833-1840). Taking of Beceite by Carlist troops in August 1834. The fort of Beceite is attacked by 800 Carlist soldiers. Illustration by J. Alaminos. Chromolithography. ""Historia de la guerra civil y de los partidos liberal y carlista"" (History of the Civil War and the Liberal and Carlist parties), by Antonio Pirala. Volume II. Madrid, 1890.

Battle of Pyramids, sketch; Kossak, Wojciech (1856-1942); 1896 (1896-00-00-1896-00-00);Arabs, Egypt, Mameluci, Young Poland (Style), Partage Plus, French Army, Battle of Pyramids (1798), Battle, Napoleonics, Panoramas, Pyramids, message (provenance), deserts, romanticism (style), battle scenes, multi -stone scenes , sketches

Siege of a city and a monarch speaking with an army commander. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1590 - 1610. Measurements: h 232 mm × w 195 mm; h 210 mm × w 173 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Fortifying the camp. 1899. Gallic War, 1899. Engraving. Later colouration.

Unknown painter known as 'The Master of the Battle of Orsha' 1524-1530 The Battle in 1514, was part of a long series of Russo-Lithuanian Wars.

China/Taiwan: Detail of a battle between wokou pirates and Ming Dynasty forces from the scroll painting 'Ming Qiu Shizhou Taiwan zoukai tu' (Victory in Taiwan by Qiu Shizhou of the Ming), Qiu Ying (1494-c.1559)

Cowboys fighting on desert

Soldiers of "Acostamientos". The Acostamiento was a salary granted by the king to his vassals under which they were obliged to serve him in war. Culveriner (left). Crossbowman (right). Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration.

This early 1900s illustration shows a Roman soldier racing to Rome during the Second Punic War.

FERDINAND II, 1578-1637, archduke of Austria 1617-9 and Holy Roman Emperor, at battle of Nordlingen, 1634

Illustration depicting Moslem Arab warriors leaving a town to embark on Jihad or Holy War. by Nasreddine Dinet (Alphonse-Étienne Dinet); 1861 - 1929, a French orientalist painter; 1918.

Watanabe, Nobukazu (n.1872 - D.1944), Sino -Japanese war scene (common name), 1894. Museum Cernuschi, Museum of Asia in the city of Paris.

Knights of Duc Guillaume, c1070 (1849). Artist: Unknown

Pair of jousting knights. Military Roll of Arms. pre 1448.

Melodramatic Victorian tableau showing Joan of Arc taken prisoner at Compiegne in May 1430 in a battle against the English and Burgundians. She is seized by her coat of velvet and drawn from her horse on to the ground. Date: 1859

Triumphal entry of Simon Bolivar and his army. Entrada Triunfal de Bolívar con su ejército. 19th century. Bogota, Quinta's Bolivar. Colombia. Author: CASTILLO CERVANTES JOSE IGNACIO. Location: QUINTA DE BOLIVAR. BOGOTA. SIMON BOLIVAR. SANTANDER FRANCISCO DE PAULA. SANTANDER GENERAL. ANZOATEGUI GENERAL.

Morocco, Fantasia, Near Rabat, Men On Horseback With Rifles

Italy - 19th century, First War of Independence - The taking of Peschiera, May 30, 1848. Painted by Luigi Morgari ( 1857 - 1935). Oil on canvas. 137X87

Battle of Solferino - Italy Carlo Bossoli 1859

The Japanese cavalry advancing through fields toward a walled city in China by Ishimatsu Nakajima, Japanese artist 1900. Print shows a Japanese soldier on horseback engaging four Boxer troops as the cavalry crashed through a field outside a walled city in China.

Invincible - Tobacco label showing knights in battle with barbarians who are attacking them from all sides, circa 1887

Clothing, c. 1500-1540, Spanish princes explorers, from lks, two suits of armour of the (Armeria) Real, the Madrid collection of arms, then Ferdand Cortez, then two soldiers of Cortez, then costume of Cristobal Colombo e further soldier of Cortez, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, fashion in Spain and Portugal.

Picture series third crusade, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa berennt Iconium, 1188, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from c. 1900, exact date unknown

Anonymous Bibliothque Nationale de France Book Art History The naval Battle

Turkey, 1810-17. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Turkey

The Mongol invasions of Japan of 1274 and 1281 were major military invasions undertaken by Kublai Khan to conquer the Japanese islands after the submission of Korea. Despite their ultimate failure, the invasion attempts are of historical importance, because they set a limit on Mongol expansion, and rank as nation-defining events in Japanese history. The Japanese were successful, in part because the Mongols lost up to 75% of their troops and supplies as a result of major storms at sea. These were named 'kamikaze' or divine winds by the Japanese.

KAGEMUSHA THE SHADOW WARRIOR (1980) -Original title: KAGEMUSHA-, directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.

War in Egypt. The emissaries of Arabi Pasha recruiting soldiers among the tribes to fight against the British. In the background Temple of Horus at Edfu. Colored engraving from 1882.

Ardashîr and King Ardavân dispute the hunt's spoils., 1616 - 1620 (Inferred), Istanbul, Turkish, 24.2 x 18.3 cm

Infographic about the Roman legions (753 BC - 476 AC), on how they fought and how they turned Rome into the most important Empire of history. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4960x3188.

The army leaving their entrenchment. Standard bearers can be seen riding in the chariots.

Pseudo Melioli, A Horseman and Two Soldiers, late 15th early 16th century A Horseman and Two Soldiers

Persian manuscript showing battle with Mongols.

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