Military Battle Illustrations

Historical art depicting significant military battles and conflicts, focusing on soldiers in action, uniforms, and battle scenes from various historical periods.

The first battle of BULL RUN - the charge

Barricade in the streets of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). Riots during the General Textile Strike in the city. February, 1902. Promoted by anarchist groups and labor movements. Gravure in "Le Petit Journal", 9th March, 1902.

Suvorov Crossing the Alps in 1799 by Vasily Surikov; 1899. Count Alexander Suvorov (1729-1800) was a Russian field marshal who commanded a Russo-Austrian force in Italy in 1799. Ordered to relieve Russian troops in Switzerland, he famously marched across the Alps.

July 1917 French troops the move during World War One

Italo-Turkish War. 1911-1912. Celebration of the Italian fores. Lithography by Dalsani, 1912.

France, 1870 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

Retreat of troop units of the French Loire army after the battle with Orleans, illustrated war history, German, French war 1870-1871, Germany, France, Europe

The Defeat of the German Army at Przasnysz, Anonymous

Great Britain, modern (2) 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Great Britain

Guerra Franco-Prusiana (1870-1871). Artillero francés. Grabado. Original por Alphonse Marie de Neuville (1835-1885). En Campagne, por Jules Richard. Obra editada en París en 1885. Biblioteca Histórico Militar de Barcelona. Cataluña. España.

This illustration from early World War I has the caption: Russian regiment storming the stronghold of Josepovo. The attackers encountered great barricades of logs and rocks so placed that they could be cut loose to slide down the embankment like avalanches. Hundreds of men were crushed, but the regiment swept on to the top and captured the fort.

Troops landing at Montauk - Mrs Mott Feeding the hungry soldiers, circa 1899

The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, was fought on April 6-7, 1862 in southwestern Tennessee. The confrontation was an important one in the so-called "Western Theater" of the United States Civil War. Shown here are members of the union Army, which was under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederates appeared to be winning on April 6, but were defeated on the following day.

Massed firemen with their hoses attempt to quell the flames as they engulf the industrial areas of London following a nocturnal visit by the Luftwaffe

Captain Moizo attempting a crash landing during the African Campaign. Illustrator Achille Beltrame (1871-1945), from La Domenica del Corriere, 22nd September 1912.

España. Campaña de Marruecos de 1909. Cañones Schneider disparando contra la caballería mora. Dibujo de Navarrete, año 1910.

Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion engaging Algerian brigands in battle. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 23 December 1893. France, North, Africa, Colonialism, Military, Army, Zouave

Battle of Dubisa. Waliszewski, Zygmunt (1897-1936), draughtsman, cartoonist

Risorgimento. Siege of Palermo. Expedition of the Thousand led by Garibaldi. Insurrection defending the barricade. 27 May 1860.

Battle at the Khailan River, China, Boxer Rebellion, 30 July 1900. Artist: Unknown

Italy, 1895-1900 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Italy

France, Paris, Siege of Paris

GUERRA HISPANO-AMERICANA - DESEMBARCO NORTEAMERICANO EN GUANTANAMO -LITOGRAFIA DEL "PETIT JOURNAL" - 1898. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE.

World War I (1914-1918). Assault bridge in Piave river "Fiume Sacro alla Patria" (River Sacred to the Country) in memory of the hard battles fought on tis banks during WWI, 1916. Drawing by Achille Beltrame (1871-1945). La Domenica del Corriere, 1916.

Soldiers in Gun Fight, Gaul, Gilbert, 1866.

"Russo-Japanese War: Charge of cossacks " (1904), 2nd in collection of 12 chromolithograph prints or posters; battle scene, Russian cavalry attacking Japanese cavalry at left, heavy combat in foreground, bombs exploding over Japanese forces in background

The Erzurum Offensive (Poster) by Anonymous / Private Collection / 1916 / Russia / Colour lithograph / History,Poster and Graphic design / 42x60 / Social and political posters

Austrian troops practicing fortification with snow

The 1917 caption reads: Robinson ran to the white prisoner and cut his bonds. Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English novelist Daniel Defoe and published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, it tells the tale of an English castaway named Robinson Crusoe (here seen saving a man from a group of cannibals) who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela before he was rescued.

Guerra Franco-Prusiana (1870-1871). En retirada (Ejército del Loira). Ejército francés. Grabado. Original por Edouard Detaille (1848-1912). En Campagne, por Jules Richard. Obra editada en París en 1885. Biblioteca Histórico Militar de Barcelona. Cataluña. España.

The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 - September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour. Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements, so-called 'incidents'. Yet the two sides, for a variety of reasons, refrained from fighting a total war. In 1931, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria by Japan's Kwantung Army followed the Mukden Incident. The last of these inciden

Yermaks Conquest of Siberia 1899 by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov 1848-1916. The conquest of Siberia began in July 1580 when some 540 Cossacks under Yermak Timofeyevich invaded the territory of the Voguls, subjects to Küçüm, the Khan of Siberia.

Presentation of the banner to a detachment of mobilized union members before being sent to the front. (From a picture by A.V. Moravov.)

Boxer Movement, China: showing how Midshipman Guy obtained his Victoria Cross. Watercolour by G. Soper, 1900.

Russian foreign policy. Nicholas II (1868-1919) Tsar of Russia from 1894, arriving at Dunkirk, France, on a state visit. From 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 29 December 1901.

North Korea, Pyongyang, Friendship Tower. Paintings of American soliders being defeated by North Korean and Chinese armies in the Korean War

Maori soldiers perform a Haka at Gaba Tepe on the Gallipoli Peninsula Turkey 1915 From The War Illustrated Album deLuxe published London 1916

England. Workers demonstration in the Strand, London. 1903.æ. Engraving.

General Nogi, Japanese commander who took Port Arthur from the Russians. Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.

In the Trenches. Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946). Oil on canvas. Dated April 1917. 14 x 18 1/2in

Japanese infantry at Tsan-Tai-Toun, China, Boxer Rebellion, 9 August 1900. The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion from November 1899 to September 7, 1901 against foreign influence in trade, politics, religion and technology in China during the final years of the Qing Dynasty. The assassination of the German ambassador and the siege of foreign diplomatic legations in Peking prompted Britain, France, Germany, the US, Russia, Japan, Italy and Austria-Hungary to form the Eight Nation Alliance and intervene militarily. French trading card advertising Chocolat-Louit. The artist is unknown.

Battle at Inkow, China, Boxer Rebellion, 31 July 1900. The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion from November 1899 to September 7, 1901 against foreign influence in trade, politics, religion and technology in China during the final years of the Qing Dynasty. The assassination of the German ambassador and the siege of foreign diplomatic legations in Peking prompted Britain, France, Germany, the US, Russia, Japan, Italy and Austria-Hungary to form the Eight Nation Alliance and intervene militarily. French trading card advertising Chocolat-Louit. The artist is unknown.

Woodcut illustration of the 'The battle of Yalu River'. Japanese and Russian soldiers are shown charging at each other on the battlefield. Dated 1904

1st World War, Turkish attack on a Russian position near Olti in the Caucasus (original text from 1915, original colouring), illustration, reproduction of a 19th century original. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, Historical, Soldiers with flag storming a snowy mountain in battle

''Aux Eparges; La crete est emportee de vive force le 10 avril', 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1926.

Departure of the regiment in Spain, Spanish-American War, 1898. Artist: Henri Meyer

Our Manoeuvres - Captain of Skirmishers Addresses a Lance-Corporal (recto); Sad, But a Fact! (verso) (Punch, or the London Charivari, September 20, 1873, pp. 120-121) 1873 Recto: Anonymous, British, 19th century British This print came to the Museum inserted in an album of caricatures clipped from contemporary periodicals, assembled around 1873 by the artist and etcher Arthur Heseltine. Born in England, Heseltine lived for a time in Bourron-Marlotte, near the forest of Fountainebleau in France, and later in Glasgow. The album later belonged to William Lieberman, a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, and chairman of the Department of 20th Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum.. Our Manoeuvres - Captain of Skirmishers Addresses a Lance-Corporal (recto); Sad, But a Fact! (verso) (Punch, or the London Charivari, September 20, 1873, pp. 120-121). 1873. Wood engraving. Prints

The Italian tricolor flag is hoisted on the fort at Tripoli Sultania, 1911

Crimean War (1853-1856). Siege of Sevastopol, 1854-1855, by Franz Alekseyevich Roubaud (1856-1928). The city, on the Black Sea, was besieged for 11 months. Detail. Museum of Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol. Crimean Peninsula. Ukraine.

The Visit of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Drozdov, Ivan Georgievich (1880-1939)

Communist propaganda poster depicting a Red Army soldier, triumphant in Russia, looking for new conquests in Europe. Dated 20th Century

The Great Explorers. La Vérendrye. After a work by American artist Frederic Sackrider Remington, 1861 - 1909. This picture is number four in Remington's Great Explorers series of 1905.

Russo-Japanese War: wounded soldiers slouched on benches and on stretchers on a stone floor. Watercolour.

LA GUERRA CIVIL EN COLOMBIA 1877- ENFRENTAMIENTO DE LOS EJERCITOS. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE.

Transport of the wounded to an English trench, during the first offensive in Flanders, June 1917. World War I, Belgium, 20th century.

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Russian headquarters at Port Arthur. Engraving. Colored.

Two British soldiers have a couple minutes to practise shooting.

Cartoon, French and German soldiers. A French soldier sticks a bayonet into a German soldier, telling him that he has sung the socialist Internationale for twenty years. A comment on international socialist attempts to negotiate peace during the First World War. Date: 1916

'Storming of Dargai Heights, Pakistan, by the Gordon Highlanders and the Gurkas, 20 November 1897. Piper George Findlater, inset, was awarded one of the four Victoria Crosses awarded that day. Chromolithograph.'

Convict by Makovsky, Vladimir Yegorovich (1846-1920)/ State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg/ 1879/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Realism/ 76,5x113/ Genre

Americans with a dog sled (Robert Peary or Albert Cook at the North Pole); Bertrand, A. (fl. Ca 1890-1909), Pranishnikoff, Ivan (1841-1909); 1890-1910 (1890-00-00-1910-00-00);

Illustration by Loys Petillot celebrating the struggle for liberty in Alsace & Lorraine at the end of world war Two. American soldiers capture German officer and his escort

Bringing Home the Dead King Charles XII, Gustaf Olaf Cederstrom, (1845-1933/Swedish)

Italia. Portada de revista La Domenica del Corriere, editada en Milan, julio de 1938. Soldados del ejército franquista atraviesan un pueblo arrasado de la provincia de Teruel.

Uchoren no zuGreat Military Drill. Artist: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide (Japanese, 1807-1878/79). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 13 5/8 x 27 7/16 in. (34.6 x 69.7 cm). Date: 1866 (Keio 2, 2nd month). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The little newspaper ... / Exhibition of 1889: a barricade in 1830. - Table by Mr Georges Cain. - (engraving extracted from the newspaper illustrated) (IT)

Tent instruction , Tents, Military personnel, Military training, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Leibig collector card depicting Greek soldiers besieging a castle with a siege tower

'The Ox. And Bucks. Light Infantry. The Battle in the Churchyard at Vimiero', 1808, (1939). Artist: Unknown.

Confederates swear oath in the village of Trogen, 1880, in Switzerland, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Turkish troops - Gallipoli - firing down on allied positions from high in the mountains. Date: 1915

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