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RM2JHY2G5–WW1 Battle of The Somme : British Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers fixing bayonets prior to the attack on Beaumont Hamel. Battle of The Somme. Soldiers wearing ‘fighting order’, with the haversack in place of the pack, and with the rolled groundsheet strapped to the belt below the mess-tin which contained rations. The officer in the foreground (right) is wearing other ranks’ uniform to be less conspicuous. Western Front World War 1 First World War The Great War
RMB45YM9–events, First World War / WWI, Balkans, Serbia, Austrian infantry fighting Serbian franctireurs, postcard, drawing by Wilhelm Gause, August 1914,
RMGGH5AP–Major General Sir Robert Henry Sale GCB (1782 – 1845) was a British Army officer who commanded the garrison of Jalalabad during the First Afghan War and was killed in action during the First Anglo-Sikh War. He was nicknamed 'Fighting Bob,' because wherever there was fighting he was always in the thick of it.
RMW7CM7R–American reinforcements to aid the Allied troops before the main US Army arrived, World War 1, 1918. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
RMF7PWJF–The First World War hit St Quentin very hard. In September 1914, the city was overrun, and it endured a harsh occupation. From 1916, it lay at the heart of the war zone, because the Germans had integrated it into the Hindenburg Line. After the evacuation of the population in March, the town was systematically looted and industrial equipment removed or destroyed. The fighting destroyed it: 80% of buildings (including the Basilica) were damaged.
RMJR31CN–The Battle of Arcole (November 15-17 1796) was a battle fought between French and Austrian forces 16 miles southeast of Verona during the War of the First Coalition, a part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The battle saw a bold maneuver by Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army of Italy to outflank the Austrian army led by József Alvinczi and cut off its line of retreat. The French victory proved to be a highly significant event during the third Austrian attempt to lift the Siege of Mantua. For two days the French assaulted the stoutly defended Austrian position at Arcole without success. Their per
RMPRH6PX–May 11th 1918. A French Infantry Soldier in a trench, fighting in France during the First World War.
RM2B01CFP–France/Vietnam: Lieutenant Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny (11 February 1928 - 30 May 1951), c. 1950. Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny was a French Army officer, who fought during World War II and the First Indochina War. Bernard de Lattre received several medals during his military career, including the Médaille militaire. He was killed in action at the age of 23, fighting near Ninh Binh. At the time of his death, his father, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, was the overall commander of French forces in Indochina. Bernard's death received widespread newspaper coverage.
RM2B6D6TC–Siege of Carlisle by the Scots, AD 1315. Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle (c1270-1323) (identifiable by the coat of arms on his shield) throwing spears at the soldiers of Robert I. Initial letter of Edward II's charter to Carlisle (1316) comemmorating Harclay's successfull defence of Carlisle Castle during it's siege by Robert I of Scotland in July and August 1315. The Siege of Carlisle was an event during the First War of Scottish Independence.
RM2EFENMP–The collapse of the pontoon bridge over the River Sutlej, at the Battle of Sobraon, 10th February 1846, during the First Anglo-Sikh War
RM2BW3J81–Chancellor Schuschnigg makes first inspection of Austia ' s fighting planes . Although military aeroplanes are forbidden Austria under post war treaties , Chancellor Schuschnigg made his first inspection of Austria ' s new fighting planes during the military Sping parade in Vienna . Austria recently repudiated the Treaty of St Germain , by which she was bound to an army of only 30 , 000 men by reintroducing conscription . Photo shows , Chancellor Schuschnigg chatting to the commanding officer at the Vienna flying field . 20 April 1936
RMERGH78–World War 1: German soldiers fighting in the Vosges, at position at Lingekopf and Barrenkopf. Illustration by Friedrich Fennel, published in the Leipzig Illustrirte Zeitung. France.
RMKWDJDN–Philippine-American War fighting began on Feb. 4, 1899. Utah Battery on McCloud Hill, February 5, 1899, was firing on Insurgents on San Juan Bridge. A soldier of this unit was killed near this gun a few minutes after this photo shot. Battle of Manila, the first and largest battle of the Philippine–American War, was fought between 19,000 Americans and 15,000 Filipinos (BSLOC 2017 10 71)
RM2T22GTF–The Third Battle of Ypres (The Battle of Passchendaele). Soldiers of an Australian 4th Division field artillery brigade on a duckboard track passing through Chateau Wood, near Hooge in the Ypres salient, 29 October 1917. Photo by Frank Hurley.
RM2D4JRR3–Archive WW1 PASSCHENDAELE BATTLEFIELD AFTERMATH 12 October 1917 the 3rd Australian Division and the New Zealanders, assisted by the 4th Australian Division, were launched against the village of Passchendaele. Weather had turned the battlefield into mud. Artillery support weak; shells exploded harmlessly in the mud, neither cutting the enemy’s barbed wire nor silencing the guns. The New Zealanders fought across 2,300 metres of mud to be slaughtered by machine-guns. The Australians reached the edge of Passchendaele but, with mounting losses, were forced to withdraw. The attack was a disaster.
RMB2JKYB–events, First World War / WWI, Western Front, German soldiers fighting against British tank Mark IV with a flamethrower, France, 1918,
RMMX08F7–During the First War of Scottish Independence, King Edward I invaded Scotland in 1296 and made a bee-line for Edinburgh Castle. After a short three-day siege the castle was captured and a large garrison of 350 knights assembled to protect it. Master craftsmen were brought in from Wales in order to bolster the castle’s defences. Royal regalia, state records and other treasures belonging to Edinburgh Castle were plundered and sent down to London along with the Stone of Destiny from Scone Abbey.
RMD98Y0Y–World War I 1914-1918: Fighting a fire on a farm in Artois, France, set alight by German shellfire. Being on the front line between German and Allied forces the area suffered severe damage. From 'Le Flambeau', Paris, 18 September 1915.
RM2BE0HN1–When humans first began fighting wars is a matter of debate among anthropologists and historians. The first archeological record of what could be a prehistoric battle is at a Mesolithic site known as Cemetery 117. It was determined to be about 14,340 to 13,140 years old and located on the Nile near the Egypt-Sudan border. It contains a large number of bodies, many with arrowheads embedded in their skeletons, which indicates that they may have been the casualties of a battle. Beginning around 12,000 BC, combat was transformed by the development of bows, maces, and slings. The bow seems to have
RM2H13P99–A vintage photograph taken in 1917 showing a British Forces trench at Maple Copse near Ypres during the First World War. Rifles are leant up against the trench wall, one with bayonet fitted.
RM2B01BCN–Vietnam: With fear and apprehension showing on their faces women and children loaded down with salvaged possessions scurry past the bodies of three NLF (Viet Cong) killed in the fighting, Saigon, May 1968. The Second Indochina War, known in America as the Vietnam War, was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S.
RMRPRTTR–'Shallow trench', fighting in the early days of the war, near Ypres, c1914. A German advance against British trenches, held by the King's Liverpool Regiment. Shallow trench, fighting in the early days of the war, near Ypres. A German advance against British trenches, held by the King's Liverpool Regiment.
RM2HWJ7TG–Mark II tank 'Lusitania' of the 1st Tank Brigade going forward along a ruined street in Arras, 10 April 1917.
RM2BW3PRM–Chancellor Schuschnigg makes first inspection of Austia ' s fighting planes . Although military aeroplanes are forbidden Austria under post war treaties , Chancellor Schuschnigg made his first inspection of Austria ' s new fighting planes during the military Sping parade in Vienna . Austria recently repudiated the Treaty of St Germain , by which she was bound to an army of only 30 , 000 men by reintroducing conscription . Photo shows , Chancellor Schuschnigg saluting as he made his inspection of the fighting planes at the Vienna flying field . 20 April 1936
RMKPAGMB–Schleswig-Holstein Question. The First Schleswig War or Three Years' War (1848-1851). Battle at Kolding on April 23, 1849.
RMB6M6A7–Contemporary World War One illustration of Canadian troops in action in France during the Battle of the Somme.
RM2T22GTG–The Third Battle of Ypres (The Battle of Passchendaele). Royal Field Artillery gunners hauling an 18 pounder field gun out of the mud near Zillebeke, 9 August 1917. Photo by John Warwick Brooke.
RMDC0RY0–APRIL 19, 1861 FIRST CIVIL WAR BLOODSHED BALTIMORE PRATT STREET RIOT SOUTHERN SYMPATHIZERS ATTACK MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT
RMW4J76N–French soldiers under General Gouraud, with their machine guns in the ruins of a cathedral near the Marne during World War One
RMCNTMYR–events, First Silesian War, 1740 - 1742, Battle of Mollwitz, 10.4.1741, Prussian grenadiers in combat, drawing by Adolph von Menzel (1815 - 1905), fallen, Prussia against Austria, War of the Austrian Succession, fighting, firing, 18th century, soldiers, military, historic, historical, fight, people, 19th century, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2H985MH–A late 19th Century illustration of the seige of 12th-century Rochester Castle on the east bank of the River Medway in Rochester, Kent, South East England. During the First Barons' War (1215–1217) in King John's reign, baronial forces captured the castle from Archbishop Stephen Langton and held it against the king, who then besieged it. After resisting for just over seven weeks, the castle was badly damaged, with breaches in the outer walls and one corner of the keep collapsed; hunger eventually forced the defenders' hand and the garrison surrendered.
RMGA7AD4–Women paint the Gasometer at Cambridge Gas Works. Many women assumed the work of men as they were away fighting during the Great War.
RF2H4DJMJ–A vintage photo circa 1918 of soldiers and civilians examining a French Saint-Chamond tank. The second French tank to enter service during the First World War, with 400 manufactured from April 1917 to July 1918
RM2BE10BJ–When humans first began fighting wars is a matter of debate among anthropologists and historians. The first archeological record of what could be a prehistoric battle is at a Mesolithic site known as Cemetery 117. It was determined to be about 14,340 to 13,140 years old and located on the Nile near the Egypt-Sudan border. It contains a large number of bodies, many with arrowheads embedded in their skeletons, which indicates that they may have been the casualties of a battle. Beginning around 12,000 BC, combat was transformed by the development of bows, maces, and slings. The bow seems to have
RMT772MR–Two seperate black and white British aerial photographs, taken on 9th July 1916, and 1st September 1916, of the village of Guillemot in the Somme area of Northern France. The photographs show the complete destruction of the area after the fighting during the war.
RM2B01CEN–Vietnam: Two USAF F-100D Super Sabre aircraft streaking over South Vietnam on their way to an assigned target, 1967. The aircraft provided much of the tactical air support to Allied ground forces fighting in Vietnam. The Second Indochina War, known in America as the Vietnam War, was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S.
RMRPRTWA–In a front line trench at Ovillers, 1916. The Capture of Ovillers (1-16 July 1916) was a British local operation during the Battle of Albert, the name given by the British to the first two weeks of the Battle of the Somme.
RMD9979P–World War I 1914-1918: Austro-Hungarian Uhlans fighting on the south-eastern front using cover of the forest's edge, 1917. Military, Army, Soldier, Weapon, Rifle, Smallarms
RMKWDJB1–US Marines at Guantanamo repelling a midnight attack of Spanish troops on June 12, 1898. During 2 nights of the Battle of Camp McCalla, the searchlight of the USS MARBLEHEAD, illuminated the brush from which the Spanish were firing. Six Marines were killed, the first US battle casualties of the declared Spanish American War (BSLOC 2017 10 18)
RM2BW3335–Fighting the locust plague in London . London has become the international in the war against against locusts whose present invasion of Africa and Asia is estimated to have caused damage amounting to more than seven million pounds with an additional wastage of five and a half million working days . At the Natural history museam in London a a special colony of locusts , brought specially from Africa is being bred for experimental purposes , the first colony established in this country . They are living in conditions reproduced as nearly as possible to their natural condition in the African dese
RMEGXTAX–A wounded Boer - A wounded Boer at Spion Kop, South Africa - Wounded soldier receiving first aid from another soldier, other soldiers engaged in fighting around them. 1900
RMP67J3F–Victoria; British Columbia; Canada; Canadian men line up to join the allies fighting in World War One
RMB5WTNB–Contemporary World War One illustration of a futile attack by German soldiers on a British tank in France.
RM2WH8B5D–Aldershot, Hampshire. 1914 – British army soldiers of the Regimental Barber Shop, ‘F’ Company, Royal Army Medical Corps at Redan Hill Fort, Aldershot in 1914. The men are posing with their dog mascot in front of a bell tent. Some of the soldiers are wearing standard Khaki with Regimental Police armbands. The rest are wearing temporary blue serge uniforms, known as ‘Kitchener blues’. As a result of the War Office's failure to obtain a sufficient quantity of standard khaki uniforms in the opening weeks of the First World War, this alternative was introduced as an emergency measure.
RMERGH5R–World War I: War between Austro- Hungary and Serbia. Retreat of Serbia after nine days of fighting by Kolubara river in November 1914. Following Austro- Hungarian Balkan division 's capture of 8000 prisoners and 42 emplacements. Illustrations by Richard Assmann, 1914.
RMCP1FBJ–events, First Italo-Ethiopian War, 1893 - 1896, Battle of Adwa, 1.3.1896, contemporary wood engraving, the Ethiopian warriors under Menelik II defeat the Italien troops lead by General Oreste Baratieri, Italo Ethiopian, Africa, Ethiopia, colonialism, colonial war, , soldier, soldiers, Bersaglieri, 19th century, historic, historical, Italy, fight, fighting, people, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMGGH5AR–British forces invaded Jalalabad in 1838, during the First Anglo-Afghan War. In the 1842 Battle of Jellalabad, Akbar Khan besieged the British troops on their way to Jalalabad.
RMCTG14R–1860s AUGUST 10 1861 FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN FROM THE FEDERAL UNION LINES AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
RM2HX0X7P–British troops embussing after the fighting at Monchy-le-Preux, which was taken by the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade, 37th Division. Arras, 28 April 1917.
RMJR31AH–The Gothic War is the name given to a Gothic uprising in the Eastern Roman Empire in the Balkans between about 376 and 382. The war and in particular the Battle of Adrianople, is commonly seen as a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire, the first of a series of events over the next century that would see the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, although its ultimate importance to the Empire's eventual fall is still debated. The Battle of Constantinople was a Gothic attack on Constantinople in 378 following the Gothic victory at the Battle of Adrianople. The emperor Valens's widow prepa
RM2B01CEM–Vietnam: An Air Force F-100D Super Sabre aircraft fires a salvo of 2.75-inch rockets against an enemy position in South Vietnam, 1967. The aircraft provided much of the tactical air support to Allied ground forces fighting in Vietnam. The Second Indochina War, known in America as the Vietnam War, was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam.
RM2NN7BFD–A plan of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, c1922. The Battle of Neuve Chapelle (10th to 13th March, 1915) took place during World War I, in the Artois region of France. The attack was intended to cause a rupture in the German lines.
RMH4H4KK–U.S. Marines wounded during fighting at Kari San Mountain are evacuated by helicopter to a MASH unit for medical care during the Korean War May 23, 1951 in Korea.
RM2GNB0ND–The Twenty-First Michigan Infantry from the book ' The Civil war through the camera ' hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil war times, sixteen reproductions in color of famous war paintings. The new text history by Henry W. Elson. A. complete illustrated history of the Civil war
RMG57PRB–JODHPUR LANCERS 1921: The Prince of Wales' Tour of Japan and the East. The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor) inspecting the Jodhpur Lancers who won fame on the Western Front during the First World War fighting alongside the British Army. *They were the model for novelist John Masters' 'Ravi Lancers'.
RMP66TMT–French soldiers during the Second Battle of Artois, from 9 May – 18 June 1915. the Western Front during the First World War.
RMB6MYJR–Contemporary World War One illustration of a German artillery crew surrendering in the face of a charge by Allied soldiers.
RM2WH8B5E–Aldershot, Hampshire. 1914 – A formal group photograph of British army soldiers belonging to No.1 Section, ‘F’ Company, Royal Army Medical Corps at Redan Hill Fort, Aldershot, Hampshire in 1914. Apart from the Sergeant, who is wearing standard Khaki uniform and one other who is wearing civilian clothing, the rest are all dressed in blue serge temporary uniforms, known as ‘Kitchener blues’. As a result of the War Office's failure to obtain a sufficient quantity of standard khaki uniforms in the opening weeks of the First World War, this alternative was introduced as an emergency measure.
RM2BW24WT–First pictures from the Soviet - Manchukuo front. This picture is the first to arrive from the Soviet Manchukuo front, where there has been severe fighting between the Soviet and Japanese forces, and shows a Soviet tank commander reading to as men, a newspaper account of the armistice agreed upon by the two counties. 21 August 1938
RM2K4TMAE–WESTERN FRONT, FRANCE - circa 1916 - German Army infantry man a machine gun position in the trenches somewhere on the Western Front in France during W
RMCP1EF8–First Schleswig War, 1848 - 1851, Prussian troops charge Danevirke, 23.4.1848, contemporary wood engraving, General Friedrich Graf Wrangel, Denmark, Dannevirke, battles, fights, fortifications, fortification, Germany, Schleswig-Holstein Question, Holstein, intervention, interventions, military, battle, battling, fight, fighting, assaults, assault, attack, attacking, charge, charging, historic, historical, 19th century, people, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMGR7BW6–The Battle of the Alma (20 September 1854), which is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War and took place just south of the River Alma in the Crimea. An Anglo-French force under Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud and FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan defeated General Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov's Russian army, which lost around 6,000 troops.
RMG36AM6–Tired Marines with F Company, First Marine Regiment take a break during a lull in the fighting on Bunker Hill during the Korean War.
RMKWDM4E–Philippine-American War fighting began on Feb. 4, 1899. Utah Battery on McCloud Hill, February 5, 1899, was firing on Insurgents on San Juan Bridge. A soldier of this unit was killed near this gun a few minutes after this photo shot. Battle of Manila, the first and largest battle of the Philippine–American War, was fought between 19,000 Americans and 15,000 Filipinos (BSLOC 2017 10 71)
RMW60AY1–Siege of Londonderry, c1690. The Siege of Derry was the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland. The siege was preceded by a first attempt against the town by Jacobite forces on 7th December 1688, which had failed. The siege was an act of rebellion against James II. From 'Engelants Schouwtoneel', Amsterdam, 1690.
RMKWDJB2–Guantanamo Marines under Lieut. Col. Huntington the Battle of Camp McCalla, June 11-13, 1898. This battle drew the first blood of the declared Spanish American War (BSLOC 2017 10 19)
RM2GNB0PC–The Twenty-First Michigan Infantry from the book ' The Civil war through the camera ' hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil war times, sixteen reproductions in color of famous war paintings. The new text history by Henry W. Elson. A. complete illustrated history of the Civil war
RMB5MR11–9 1916 6 23 A1 E Chaulnes Wood 1916 World War 1 1914 18 Western Front Battle of the Somme 23rd June to 26th November 1916 Remain
RMTXG7P7–World War I : Fighting a fire on a farm in Artois, France, set alight by German shellfire. Being on the front line between German and Allied forces the area suffered severe damage. From 'Le Flambeau', Paris, 18 September 1915.
RMB6M9CC–Contemporary World War One illustration of Scottish soldiers playing bagpipes under enemy fire during the Battle of the Somme.
RM2B02NY8–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. The war took place 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. Most of the fighting took place in Tonkin in Northern Vietnam, although the conflict
RM2BW3PFD–First pictures of sacked Addis Ababa , looting and burning after emperor ' s flight . This picture , transmitted from Djibuti , French Somaliland , is the first received in London of the sacked capital of Abyssinian , looted by rioting mobs after the flight of Emperor Haile Selassie to Palestine . Before the entry of the victorious Italian troops , bands of Abyssinian brigands pouring down from the hills , and even the inhabitants , joined in looting the city , fighting among themselves for the loot . Foreign nationals sought refuge in their threatened Legations and the rioters were fighting i
RMB4WGH5–Infantry in the support trench during preliminary bombardment during the first week of the Battle of the Somme At least 20 000 British soldiers were killed and a further 40 000 were injured on the first day of the Battle It is the greatest number of British casualties in a single day s fighting in modern history
RMCP0020–First Schleswig War, 1848 - 1851, Prussian troops charge Danevirke, 23.4.1848, contemporary wood engraving, General Friedrich Graf Wrangel, Denmark, Dannevirke, battles, fights, fortifications, fortification, Germany, Schleswig-Holstein Question, Holstein, intervention, interventions, military, battle, battling, fight, fighting, assaults, assault, attack, attacking, charge, charging, historic, historical, 19th century, people, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMW5173D–In 256 BC, during the First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) one of the greatest naval battles in history took place off Cape Pelorus on the coast of Sicily, Italy when 330 ancient Roman ships confronted 350 Carthaginians ships. The struggle was long and many lives were lost. The fight between these two huge ancient powers is today known as the Battle Of Cape Ecnomus,was eventually won by the Romans.
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