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Portraits of Historic Military Leaders

Formal portraits of notable military figures, showcasing historical uniforms and commendations, emphasizing their roles in various conflicts.

General Beyers (1869 - 1914), became notorious in the early stages of the war for throwing up command of the South African Union Defence Force, when directing to act against German South-West Africa. 1914
General Beyers (1869 - 1914), became notorious in the early stages of the war for throwing up command of the South African Union Defence Force, when directing to act against German South-West Africa. 1914
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Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch 1851 to 1929. From L Illustration, 1916., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not StatedGrand Duke Nikolay Nikolayevich Romanov of Russia (November 6, 1856 January 5, 1929)Russian general in World War I. A grandson of Nicholas I of Russia, he was commander in chief of the Russian armies on the main front in the first year of the warFriedrich III. 18. Oktober 1831, 15. Juni 1888, war im Dreikaiserjahr 1888 neunundneunzig Tage lang deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen, bevor er 1...Elsevier photo collection. Prince Bernhard Marine Gala uniform. 1936Portrait of J.A. Ritter, born 1837, local commander in Utrecht, died 1912. Borst statue from the front, in iniform.Historic photograph, portrait of a young soldier wearing a uniform, around 1917Gen Otto von Below, 1916Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France General Gabriel Malleterre , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Le général Gabriel Malleterre). Military personality, military uniform, portrait, man, army, Personality, clothing, human beings, society, France, Boulogne, Portraits, General MalleterreAlphonse Joseph Georges (1875 1951)French army officer. He was commander in chief of the North East Front in 1939 and 1940. Opposing the plan by supreme commander Maurice Gamelin to move the best allied forces into the Low Countries, he was overruled by his superior. On the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Georges became commander of all French field armies. On 19 May 1940 Gamelin and Georges were sacked and General Weygand returned as head of the French Army. Georges refused to play any significant role in the new Vichy France government.Portrait of Gustave Marie Verspyck. A portrait of Publicist and Military Gustave Maria Verspyck dressed in a uniform with various distinctions.The Armenian Genocide refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was implemented through wholesale massacres and deportations, with the deportations consisting of forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees. The total number of resulting Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between one and one and a half million. Other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks, and some scholars consider those events to be part of the same policy of extermination. It is widely acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides, as scholars point to the systematic, organized manner in which the killings were carried out to eliminate the Armenians, and it is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust. The word genocide was coined in order to describe these events.Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev (1871 - 1968) Russian weapons designer and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1937 to 1950A historical portrait of a distinguished military officer in vintage attire.'General Piegne', c1893. Artist: Pierre Petit.Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch 1851 to 1929. From L Illustration, 1918., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not StatedJosÈ Mill·n-Astray y Terreros (1879 ñ 1954) Spanish soldier, the founder and first commander of the Spanish Foreign Legion, and a key nationalist commander, during the Spanish Civil War.BLANCO Y ERENAS , RAMON. MILITAR ESPAÑOL. SAN SEBASTIAN 1833 - 1906. GRABADO DE I ' LLUSTRATION , 1898.'Colonel Marchand', c1893. Artist: Eugene Pirou.Gen. W.P. Duvall. The Allies: France, Soldier of the Foreign Legion Individual: Basmadjian Mihram (Armenian) Eugene Burnand (d.1931), 20th Century, Drawing, Pastel, Paper, Portrait, Frame, Photograph, Replica, Military, War, Works on Paper01/31/1907. The Moroccan police. The Swiss artillery colonel, Mr. Armin Muller, appointed inspector general of said Corps - photo Trampus.General overall Count of Kirchbach.General Tasker Howard Bliss (1853-1930) American army officer. Graduated from West Point in 1875. Chief of Staff of the US Army from September 1917 to May 1918. A delegate to the Versailles Peace Conference at the end of the First World War. Bliss in April 1919.Portrait of Admiral Bjurner Head of Karlskrona Warrants 1938 Reproduction.Lieut. Gen. K. KodamaSir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, 1853 to 1947, General of the British Army. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke, published 1900, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedCHARLES GEORGE GORDON Military commander, early in his career. Date: 1833 - 1885Chief Engineer in uniform on deck of ship. This is presumed to be G E Wood. Caption reads: Chief Engineer RIMS Investigator.Brig. Gen. E.T. DonnellyGen. J.H. PendletonErich Johann Albert Raeder (24 April 1876 6 November 1960) German naval leader in Germany before and during World War II. Raeder attained the highest possible naval rankthat of Groߡdmiral (Grand Admiral) in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz. Raeder led the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) for the first half of the war, but resigned in 1943 and was replaced by Karl D�z. He was sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg Trials, but was later reTheodore Roosevelt, Head and Shoulders Portrait in Rough Riders Military Uniform, Photograph by Arthur Hewitt, 1900Knut Adolf Wallerintendent Control Account. 1921-193312/31/1910. The aviator Vedrines, who has been awarded the Military Medal.Photograph of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870-1948) German Genenral from Nuremberg and assisted in the direction of the Ottoman Army during World War I. Dated 191607/31/1913. The African High Command. The illustrious Lieutenant General D. José Marina Vega, appointed by the government of His Majesty High Commissioner and General in Chief of our zone and African Possessions.1800S Postbellum Portrait James Macgill Confederate Cavalry Officer Who Became Brigadier General Of United Confederate VeteransVice Admiral F.J. Stokhuijzen circa October 14, 1947.The First Anglo-Chinese War (1839-42), known popularly as the First Opium War or simply the Opium War, was fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing Dynasty of China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice. Chinese officials wished to end the spread of opium, and confiscated supplies of opium from British traders. The British government, although not officially denying China's right to control imports, objected to this seizure and used its military power to violently enforce redress. In 1842, the Treaty of Nankingthe first of what the Chinese later called the unequal treatiesgranted an indemnity to Britain, the opening of five treaty ports, and the cession of Hong Kong Island, thereby ending the trade monopoly of the Canton System. The failure of the treaty to satisfy British goals of improved trade and diplomatic relations led to the Second Opium War (1856-60). The war is now considered in China as the beginning of modCount Hisaichi Terauchi or Terauchi Hisaichi (8 August 1879 - 12 June 1946) was a Gensui (or field marshal) in the Imperial Japanese Army, commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group during World War II, and a war criminal. As the war in the Pacific drew to a close, a British Intelligence Liaison Officer, Major Richard Holbrook McGregor, was sent by General Mountbatten to Saigon to verify that Count Terauchi was indeed in a hospital and unable to personally discuss terms of a cease-fire. Terauchi personally surrendered to Mountbatten on 30 November 1945 in Saigon. On 12 June 1946, he suffered from another stroke at Renggam, Johor Bahru, Malaya while being transferred to a prisoner of war camp and died. The 2nd Count Terauchi surrendered his family heirloom wakizashi short sword to the then Lord Louis Mountbatten in Saigon in 1945Von TirpitzTerenty Fomich Shtykov (1907 - 1964) was a Soviet general who supervised the liberation of North Korea, as the de facto head of its 1945-1948 military occupation and the first Soviet Ambassador to North Korea from 1948 until 1950.Unknown station inspector.General Charles Emmanuel Marie Mangin (1866-1925) French soldier. Commanded French infantry at French victory at Verdun in 1916 in First World War. Wounded at least five times by 1917. Chromolithograph.Adm. Geo. Dewey on OLYMPIABrigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer (1864-1927), British Indian Army officer. He was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (13 April 1919) in Amritsar, in the British India province of Punjab. 1920On May 9, 1864, in the North Sea, a Danish squadron defeated the Austrian navy in the Battle of Helgoland (or Heligoland) during the last engagement of wooden warships and the last Danish fleet action. Danish naval commander and vice admiral Edouard Suenson (pictured here in a painting by Otto Bache) defeated an Austro-Prussian naval squadron at this battle during the (Second War of Schleswig. Otto Bache(1839 -1927) was a Danish Realist painter. Many of his works depict key events in Danish history.Oscar II (depicted - name).Oscar II (depicted - name)Portrait of Earl Jellicoe oil paintings, portraitsCharles B. Wheeler, Commanding Officer 1908-1917 , Military officers. Records of U.S. Army OperationalSouvenir Portrait Of Otto Von Bismarck (USA); silk. Royal Engineers Major Nanton was born in 1863 and joined the Royal Engineers in 1885 as a lieutenant. He served in the North Western Territories of Canada before joining the Lushai Expedition of 1888-1889. He served with the Relief Force in Chitral in 1895 and was Mentioned in Despatches for his services in the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 as Deputy Assistant Director of Railways. He then served as Deputy Director of Military Works India from 1910 and was made brigadier general in September 1914. He served in France as Chief Engineer of the Indian Corps and was made Temporary Major General and Chief Engineer of the 3rd Army in 1917. He was briefly admitted to hospital in 1917 suffering from influenza. He was ordered to proceed to England to report to the Military Secretary, India Office in November 1917 and sailed to India in December 1917. He retired from the Army at the age of 57 and died in British Columbia in 1935 at the age of 71. Faces of the First World War Find out more''Nos Grands Allies; Nicolas II, George V, Albert I Roi des Belges', 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.'Combes', c1893. Artist: Aaron Gerschel.The master of the 'Ortega,' who saved his ship from a German cruiser: Captain D. R. Kinneir. Date: PGeneral W.H. Arthur, First Commander of Walter Reed General Hospital ca. early 1900s. 03/31/1913. Security guard number 19 Vicente Canelada, who was the one who first grabbed and disarmed the criminal (attack against Alfonso Xiii).Red Army Generals In The Field.Colonel - General F. Gollikov. April 22, 1947. (Photo by Pictorial Press).Portrait of Prof. T. Goedewaagen, born 1895, professor of philosophy at the Utrecht University (1943-1945), died 19. Too half lee from the front, in uniform of the National Socialist Movement.Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO (25 December 1881 - 4 November 1944) was a senior British Army officer with service in both the First World War and the Second World War. From May 1940 to December 1941 he was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, and subsequently served in Washington, D.C., as Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission and then Senior British Representative on the Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS).The Prince of Wales and his brothers at the wedding of the Duke of York, 6th July 1893 (1964). Artist: W&D DowneyDet. Inspect John Walsh.Victim of Bush shooting. January 2, 1952.John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948) American general. Commander-in-chief American Expeditionary Force in Europe 1917, US Army Chief of Staff 1921-1924.Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov (1851-1919), general in the Imperial Russian Army, 1917. Artist: UnknownFrancisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 - 20 November 1975) was the dictator of Spain from 1939 to his death in 1975. A conservative, he was shocked when the monarchy was removed and replaced with a democratic republic in 1931. With the 1936 elections, the conservatives fell and the leftist Popular Front came to power. Looking to overthrow the republic, Franco and other generals staged a partially successful coup, which started the Spanish Civil War. With the death of the other generals, Franco quickly became his faction's only leader. Franco received military support from local fascist, monarchist and right-wing groups, and also from Hitler's Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Leaving half a million dead, the war was eventually won by Franco in 1939. He established an autocratic dictatorship, Francoist Spain, which he defined as a totalitarian state, installing himself as head of state and government, with one legal political party: a merger of the monarchist party and thNon-commissioned officer (later Marshall) Georgy Zhukov, Russian Imperial army, 1916.In the First Sino-Japanese War, Ōyama was appointed the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Second Army, which after landing on Liaotung Peninsula, carried Port Arthur by storm, and subsequently crossed to Shantung, where it captured the fortress of Weihaiwei. After the war, Ōyama was disparaged by American reporter Trumbull White for failing to restrain his troops during the Port Arthur Massacre For his services Ōyama received the title of marquis under the kazoku peerage system, and, three years later, he became a field-marshal. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 he was appointed the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese armies in Manchuria. Ōyama had complete authority over all Japanese land operations during the war, and personally directed the tactics of Japanese forces in all major battles, winning the Battle of Liaoyang and repulsing Russian counter-attacks at the Battle of Shaho and the Battle of Sandepu. He was replaced by General Kodama Gentarō briefly during early 1905 due tSpanish Civil War: The head of the Mahon Naval Base, Admiral Luis Pascual de Pobil y ChicheriIsoroku Yamamoto (本 五十六 Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 - April 18, 1943) was a Japanese Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy. Yamamoto held several important posts in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and undertook many of its changes and reorganizations, especially its development of naval aviation. He was the commander-in-chief during the decisive early years of the Pacific War and so was responsible for major battles such as Pearl Harbor and Midway. He died when American codebreakers identified his flight plans and his plane was shot down. His death was a major blow to Japanese military morale during World War II.Leonard Wood, Spanish American War, Rough Riders 1903 John Singer SargentFirst Colonial Troops Arrive In England To Take Part In London's Victory Day Parade -- Sheer Mohammed, one of the Malayan Police Officers who will take part in the parade, aboard the liner Orontes at Southampton.The first of the Colonial troops who will take part in London's Victory Day parade on June 8th, arrived at Southampton aboard the liners Arundel Castle and Orontes. Three members of the Ceylon A.T.S. were among the Ceylon contingent aboard the Arundel Castle, The Orontes brought troops from Hong Kong, Malaya, Sarawak, the straits settlements and Borneo. June 07, 1946.Spanish civil war: Don Niceto Alcala ZamoraGeorgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896 - 1974) Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He also served as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and was a member of the Presidium of the Communist Party (later Politburo). During the Second World War, Zhukov oversaw some of the Red Army's most decisive victories.Photos of ex-Gestapo Chief Heinrich Müller, c1930s-c1940s (1963). Artist: UnknownRUSSIA - 2013: shows The 100th birth anniversary of A.I. Pokryshkin 1913-1985, a Soviet flying ace RUSSIA - CIRCA 2013: A stamp printed in Russia shows The 100th birth anniversary of A.I. Pokryshkin 1913-1985, a Soviet flying ace, circa 2013 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 5209347