RMDD7224–Aerial view of ruins of Vaux, France, 1918. Vaux was a French fortress occupied by the Germans in the World War I Battle of
RM2B00W5A–Vietnam: French paratroopers dropping on Dien Bien Phu, November 1953. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (French: Bataille de Dien Bien Phu; Vietnamese: Chien dich Dien Bien Phu) was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva.
RF2CTBB98–Vector of celebrities of La Belle Epoque. France Jean Jaures (1859 – 1914), was a French Socialist leader. Initially a moderate republican, he was lat
RMBNHWDW–World War II French resistance group France 1944 Second World War WW2 war military army history historic historical Meeting men
RM2M9870K–Crimean War -- interior of a French rifle pit in the parallel before the Mamelon fort and White Tower.
RMRYDK8E–Franco-Prussian War: French Peasant Families on the Run, France
RMERGH95–World War 1: French army at the Battle of Verdun. 21st of February – 18th of December 1916. German prisoners of war.
RMT14JT2–Arriving of French general Maurice Janin to Yekaterinburg, Russia, depicted in the watercolour painting by Czech artist Jindřich Vlček painted on 27 December 1918 and printed on the Czechoslovak vintage postcard from the series 'Pictures from the life and fights of the Czechoslovak legions in Russia' ('Pohledy ze života a bojů československých legií v Rusku') issued in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s. General Maurice Janin was the chief of the French military mission in Siberia and the formal commander of the Czechoslovak legions during the Russian Civil War. Courtesy of the Azoor Postcard Collect
RMKD9P2K–'The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others' (1919)
RMHWPGRH–Advance of the Highlanders, Alma, The first battle of The Crimean war, 1854
RMB5J9B2–Colonial artillery passing over Appalachian Mountains, French and Indian War. Hand-colored woodcut of a Felix Darley illustration
RMB5M8AH–2 G55 F1 1915 14 French trenches World War I History World War I France Trench warfare French trench positions near Loivre Champ
RMT965PH–Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (October 5 1728 - May 21, 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War. D'Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic, good features for a spy.
RM2BWAY7R–The great war . French 320 mm railway gun . Type in use by 1916
RMKCR8C7–The death of Johann de Kalb,1780, at the Battle of Camden during theAmerican Revolutionary War. Johann von Robais, Baron de Kalb, 1721 – 1780, born Johann Kalb. Bavarian-French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
RM2D4CY80–Peninsular War. Battle of Somosierra (Spain). Polish troops fought in the Battle of Somosierra (November 30, 1808), during the Spanish War of Independence, with a heroic intervention carried out by the Polish cavalry under the command of Jan Kozietulsk. Polish Chevau-legers of the Imperial Guard fighting alongside the French in battle. Engraving by Lemaitre. History of Poland, by Charles Foster. Panorama Universal, 1840.
RM2WX7WR5–French Fusilier marin during the First World War. Illustration by Job published in the book 'Allons, Enfants de la Patrie !...' by Jean Richepin. Published by A. Mame et fils in 1920.
RM2DC1TCF–Before the Charge. The Carabiniers at Winkowo , 1900, Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille, 1848 – 1912, Alphonse de Neuville, 1835-1885, France, French, German, Germany,
RMEC7PD9–French artillery during world war one
RMDD72YP–General Joseph Joffre, was Commander in Chief of the French armies on the Western Front in World War I from 1914-16.
RM2B02NF9–Vietnam: Bas-relief showing torture and brutality by the French colonialists within the prison, Hoa Lo Prison Museum (the old French Maison Centrale), Hanoi. The French colonial administration built Hoa Lo Prison in 1896. Originally intended to hold 450 prisoners, by the 1930s the number of detainees had soared to almost 2,000, the great majority political prisoners. Hoa Lo Prison achieved notoriety during the Second Indochina War as a place of incarceration for downed US pilots, who ironically nicknamed the prison the ‘Hanoi Hilton’.
RM2AMERTM–The first battles of the French army in 1914. By G. Charpentier-Bosio
RFT3BA9B–War of the Fourth Coalition, 1806-1807, prussian soldiers fled from french captivity and return to their regiment, historical illustration, Germany, E
RM2RGA7YA–French Men of War warships, the harbour Quebec, Canada. Vintage 19th century photograph.
RMRYDK8R–Franco-Prussian War: Camp of the French Prisoners on the Meuse Peninsula of Iges
RMERGH8R–World War I: German flag captured by the French. Flag of the 94th Infantry ('2nd Batallion- Landwehr). Decorated with a Saxon
RM2H7DXNM–French light tank Renault FT (FT-17) on display in front of the Armistice Museum on the ground of the Glade of the Armistice where the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended the First World War was signed in the Forest of Compiègne (Forêt de Compiègne) near Compiègne in France.
RMKD9P32–'The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others' (1919)
RMP7HHDT–French soldiers assaulting the fortifications on Malakoff hill, Crimean War, 1855
RMB5JGTE–French surrendering Louisbourg, Canada, during the French and Indian War 1758. Hand-colored halftone of a Howard Pyle illustration
RMB5M887–2 G55 B2 1916 14 French field cannon World War I History World War I The Balkans 7 5cm field cannon of the French artillery near
RMT965PP–Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (October 5 1728 - May 21, 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War. D'Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic, good features for a spy.
RMMFE1N0–Napoleonic Wars. Part of the War of the Fourth Coalition. Battle of Eylau. 7-8 February 1807. Engraving, 19th century.
RMBC8RTY–Paul Maistre, 1858 to 1922. French General during First World War.
RMRCHP5D–Napoleonic map. City of Tortosa (Catalonia, Spain). French troops sieged the town in December 1810. Peninsular War, part of the Napoleonic Wars. Atlas de l'Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877). Drawings by Dufour, engravings by Dyonnet. Edited in Paris, 1864.
RMP6522T–Poster depicting heroes of the French struggle against aggressors: Left top: the cap of liberty 1792;top right Georges Clemenceau;Bottom left: Adolphe Thiers Paris commune;and Bottom right General de Gaulle world war Two.
RM2DC1W2G–Duke Armand Louis de Gontaut de Biron 1747-1793 France, French ( Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de Lauzun, and duc de Biron ),
RMEC7PD8–French soldiers during world war one
RMDD730G–General Henri-Philippe Petain, French World War 1 commander believed modern weaponry favored defensive tactics over offensive
RM2B02NFC–Vietnam: Bas-relief showing torture and brutality by the French colonialists within the prison, Hoa Lo Prison Museum (the old French Maison Centrale), Hanoi. The French colonial administration built Hoa Lo Prison in 1896. Originally intended to hold 450 prisoners, by the 1930s the number of detainees had soared to almost 2,000, the great majority political prisoners. Hoa Lo Prison achieved notoriety during the Second Indochina War as a place of incarceration for downed US pilots, who ironically nicknamed the prison the ‘Hanoi Hilton’.
RF2PXC9A3–World War I. French destroyer 'Bisson' returns to Brindisi, after having sunk the Austrian submarine 'U-3'
RFH8RFG6–prussian - french war 1870, Retreat of the French soldiers in Metz on the 18. August 1870
RM2RGAFRC–c.1855 Crimea Crimean War (Roger Fenton) - British and French officers: Burgeish Vico Raglan Pelissier
RM2PJWPHD–World War One - Trench warfare in the French trenches on the front --- Erster Weltkrieg - Stellungskrieg in den französischen Schützengräben an der Front --- Première Guerre mondiale - Guerre de tranchées dans les tranchées françaises sur le front ---
RMERGH9Y–WW1: Transport of French prisoners of war in Thüringen, Germany. Caption: 'Wie sich die Franzosen ihren Einzug in Deutschland
RF2EA6JMR–French army before World War I. French jaeger (chasseur). France, 1910s
RM2J0XKXB–Photo which appeared in The Illustrated War News 7 July 1915; New French Soldier's Helmet. Black and white photograph
RMP77T7H–French sappers destroying Russian trenches, raid on the city of Kerch east of Sevastopol, during the the Crimean War
RMA36RJW–George Washington on a mission to the Ohio River valley during the French and Indian War 1750s. Hand-colored steel engraving
RMB5M8N5–2 G55 H1 1915 2 World War I French African soldiers History World War I Auxiliary troops French African soldiers in the French a
RMT965PN–Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (October 5 1728 - May 21, 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War. D'Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic, good features for a spy.
RMMFE2H1–Napoleonic Wars. Part of the War of the Fourth Coalition. Battle of Eylau. 7-8 February 1807. Engraving, 19th century.
RMM9W8G7–A charge of French Cuirassiers during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915
RMRCPC9H–Napoleonic map. City of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). During The Peninsular War (Napoleonic Wars) the city of Lerida was besieged on 13 May, 1810 by the French army. French victory. Atlas de l'Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877). Drawings by Dufour, engravings by Dyonnet. Edited in Paris, 1864.
RM2WX7WRH–Back to the land: French peasant returning to work after the First World War. Illustration by Job published in the book 'Allons, Enfants de la Patrie !...' by Jean Richepin. Published by A. Mame et fils in 1920.
RM2DC1RXJ–La Garde impériale à Magenta par Charpentier - The Imperial Guard in Magenta on june 4 june 1859 by Eugène Charpentier 1811-1890 France, French.
RMEC7TW2–French first world war marksman takes aim
RMDD730P–General Henri-Philippe Petain, French World War 1 hero who collaborated with the Nazi conquerors of France in World War 2.
RM2B02NFB–Vietnam: Bas-relief showing torture and brutality by the French colonialists within the prison, Hoa Lo Prison Museum (the old French Maison Centrale), Hanoi. The French colonial administration built Hoa Lo Prison in 1896. Originally intended to hold 450 prisoners, by the 1930s the number of detainees had soared to almost 2,000, the great majority political prisoners. Hoa Lo Prison achieved notoriety during the Second Indochina War as a place of incarceration for downed US pilots, who ironically nicknamed the prison the ‘Hanoi Hilton’.
RF2PXBM7C–World War I. France at war. Jump, run, shoot: a unit of French soldiers in battle. 1914
RM2F5R2T2–Rural France World War Two 1944. Old lady pushing hand cart through French village past war damaged buildings with allied soldiers in the background during the liberation of France
RM2RGCA7D–French Gardes Mobiles, territorial soldiers called up for the war, on patrol between Forts Bicetre and Ivry, near Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War.
RMGFT8BF–The Battle of Navarino fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence in Navarino Bay (modern-day Pylos), on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. An Allied force of British, French and Russian vessels defeated an Ottoman armada of warships, Egypt, Tunis and Algiers. It was the last major naval battle in history to be fought entirely with sailing ships
RMERGH7X–World War 1: French soldiers in a trench. Title: 'The Soldiers Daily Life. His Trench Life'. English version of official
RM2BWFMPK–Chinese war . American sailors guarding an approach to the French conession at Hankow . 9 October 1926
RM2H7DXGY–The Medal of the Second Madagascar Expedition (1895) on display in the Armistice Museum in the Forest of Compiègne (Forêt de Compiègne) near Compiègne in France. French general Louis Auguste Adrian (1859 – 1933) was awarded by this French commemorative medal known as the Madagascar commemorative medal (Médaille commémorative de Madagascar). The Armistice Museum is located on the ground of the Glade of the Armistice where the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended the First World War was signed.
RMJGF5HY–German shell exploding in French village
RMA0A99H–Jeffrey Amherst leading British troops taking Fort Ticonderoga in the French and Indian War 1759. Hand-colored halftone of an illustration
RMB5M8DN–2 G55 F1 1916 6 French cannon in action World War I History World War I France A 37cm cannon of the French artillery in the back
RMT965PC–Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (October 5 1728 - May 21, 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War. D'Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic, good features for a spy.
RMMFE2W2–Napoleonic Wars. Part of the War of the Fourth Coalition. Battle of Eylau. 7-8 February 1807. Engraving, 19th century.
RM2HEB75Y–The attack on Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, in 1747, during the War of the Austrian Succession by the French army. Fortified by new works built at the beginning of the 17th century it had no second line of fortifications, nor any fortress and after seventy days of siege, the city was taken, sacked and the garrison slaughtered. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c.1890.
RMRC71Y7–Map of the Battle of Moesskirch, 4th-5th May 1800, between the armies of France and the Holy German Roman Empire. War of the Second Coalition (context of the French Revolutionary Wars, with French victory). Atlas de l'Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877). Drawings by Dufour, engravings by Dyonnet. Edited in Paris, 1864.
RM2WX7WRJ–Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871: French cuirassiers charge at the Battle of Wörth, 6 August 1870. Illustration by Job published in the book 'Allons, Enfants de la Patrie !...' by Jean Richepin. Published by A. Mame et fils in 1920.
RM2DC1WRP–The bottom of the cartridge pouch by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille, 1848 – 1912, Alphonse de Neuville, 1835-1885, France, French, German, Germany, ( Battle of Rezonville August 1870 )
RMD9DRDE–Crimean War 1853-1856: French cavalry on reconaissance.
RMKWCWEA–World War 1: Battle of Verdun. French poster shows soldiers marching beside a river and over a bridge into a ruined Verdun. 1919. (BSLOC 2013 1 97)
RM2B01BGD–France/Vietnam: Henri Laurent Rivière (1827-1883), French naval officer, writer and imperialist. Photograph by Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon (9 January 1818 - 29 April 1881), c. 1859. Henri Laurent Rivière was a French naval officer and writer, chiefly remembered today for his role in advancing the French conquest of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) in the 1880s. Rivière's seizure of the citadel of Hanoi in April 1882 inaugurated a period of undeclared hostilities between France and China that culminated two years later in the Sino-French War (1884-1885).
RF2PXC95M–World War I. In the Beausejour Fortress. The last victorious assault of the position, by the French colonial infantry. 1914. By J. Simont
RM2F5R2RF–Rural France World War Two 1944. Old lady pushing hand cart through French village past war damaged buildings with allied soldiers in the background during the liberation of France
RM2RGDNMC–The charge of the French Light Cavalry against the Germans on the road to Lassigny (a village between Montvidier and Noyon in France) during World War One.
RM2G8Y7HM–French military documents: Membership card of the Federation of Prisoners of War (WW2);
RMERGH34–World War I: French African soldiers convalescing at Royan, France. April 1916. Drawing by J. Simont. Styled as North African
RM2BW8GC7–M Painleve , French Minister of War , receives honorary degree at Cambridge University . M Painleve . 16 November 1927
RMJJEH1N–AJAXNETPHOTO. GRASSE, FRANCE. - FRENCH NAVAL ADMIRAL - STATUE OF FRANCOIS-JOSPEH PAUL, MARQUIS DE GRASSE TILLY, FRENCH NAVAL ADMIRAL WHO DEFEATED THE BRITISH AT THE BATTLE OF CHESAPEAKE IN 1781. PHOTO;CAROLINE BEAUMONT/AJAX REF:P1080423 1
RMP966E6–Interior of the Chamber of Deputies, Paris, France, circa 1870's, at the beginning of the French Third Republic
RMAEXT4C–Defeat of British General Edward Braddock en route to Fort Duquesne in the French and Indian War 1755. Hand-colored woodcut
RMB5MAC2–2 G55 W1 1916 3 French position World War I 1916 History World War I Western Front A French position in a village French soldier
RMT965PX–Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (October 5 1728 - May 21, 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War. D'Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic, good features for a spy.
RM2CCG854–Monument commemorating the dead of the war 1870-1871 in French and German, Karlsplatz, city centre Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe
RMJ2D3DC–The surrender of Bailén, Spain by General Dupont, centre right, to the Spanish commander Castaños, centre left, 23rd July,1808 during the Peninsular War. Francisco Javier Castaños Aragorri Urioste y Olavide, Count of Castaños y Aragones, 1st Duke of Baylen, 1758 – 1852. Spanish general. Pierre-Antoine, comte Dupont de l'Étang, 1765 -1840. French general. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
RMRC7211–Map of the surroundings of Alessandria della Paglia and the plain of Marengo (Italian Piedmont). In this area took place the Battle of Marengo in 1800, during the War of the Second Coalition, between French and Austrian troops. Atlas de l'Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877). Drawings by Dufour, engravings by Dyonnet. Edited in Paris, 1864.
RM2WX7WPR–The French trawler 'Le Pétrel', converted into a warship to spot German ships during the First World War. Illustration by Job published in the book 'Allons, Enfants de la Patrie !...' by Jean Richepin. Published by A. Mame et fils in 1920.
RM2DC1WRF–Grenardier detachment of the Garde imperiale by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille, 1848 – 1912, Alphonse de Neuville, 1835-1885, France, French, German, Germany, ( Battle of Rezonville August 1870 )
RMDYF372–French field position in world war one 1915;
RMDD71J0–Greatest French gun at moment of firing during a night bombardment. The World War I cannon fired 12.5 inch (320mm) shells.
RM2B00MX1–Republique Francaise Indochine: First Indochina War medal. The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, Anti-French War, Franco-Vietnamese War, Franco-Vietminh War, Indochina War, Dirty War in France, and Anti-French Resistance War in contemporary Vietnam) was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Emperor Bảo Đại's Vietnamese National Army against the Việt Minh, led by Hồ Chí Minh and Võ Nguyên Giáp.
RF2PXBM2B–World War I. France at war. French light tanks at the Second Battle of the Marne. July 1918. By Ch. Baude
RMPK0RRY–1940. German Army soldiers watching over captured French Prisoners of War.
RMG39TRW–In the decisive battle of the war, French forces led by Marshal de McMahon are driven back by General de Moltke's army. The French are forced to surrender. Date: 1 September 1870
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