Breaks Collection (#3)

Felipe V at Madrid
Felipe V, formerly duc d Anjou, rides into Madrid with his queen, but the Spanish are less than delighted, war breaks out and he will abdicate in 1724

Trouble at Geneva 3
Street fighting breaks out in Geneva between the independents and the authorities in regard to the citys religious status. The bridges are barricaded

Battle of Sempach 4
The Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria at the battle of Sempach, largely thanks to the heroism of Arnold von Winkelried who breaks the line of the Austrian spearmen

Battle of Sempach 1
The Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria at the battle of Sempach, largely thanks to the heroism of Arnold von Winkelried who breaks the line of the Austrian spearmen

Fort Chambly 1814
Canadians are understandably alarmed when war breaks out between Britain and the USA : Fort Chambly in Quebec province is a strategic defence and site of a camp

Hysterical French Nun
In 17th century France, a hysterical nun breaks loose from her bonds and terrifies the convent with her insistence that she is possessed by demons

FRENCHWOMAN 1789 - 2
A simple dress echoes the mood of the day as the Revolution breaks out and aristocratic luxury becomes politically incorrect

Frenchwoman 1789
A simpler style characterises this Frenchwomans dress and bonnet in the year the Revolution breaks out

Egan / Fire in Hotel Room
An accident while rehearsing in a hotel bedroom - a fire breaks out

1916 / Somme / Maisonette
Dawn breaks at the Maisonette as French troops struggle through the knee-deep mud

Moses Breaks the Tables
He comes down from Mt Sinai bringing the Tables of the Law, only to find the Israelites worshipping a Golden Calf instead; angry, he breaks the tablets

Boer War: Thabanchu
THABANCHU De Wet breaks through the British lines

Fire / Oil Wells / Calgary
A disasterous fire breaks out at an oil well, Calgary, Canada

Getting out a Buoy
When the cable breaks in mid- ocean, a buoy is prepared for launching from the Great Eastern to mark the spot

Buoy Marks Broken Cable
When the cable breaks in mid- ocean, a buoy is launched from the Great Eastern to mark the spot

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig4
Act 4 scene 2 : Robert breaks the magic branch, destroying the spell set by Bertram, the Devil

Cable Breaks 1865
The scene on board the Great Eastern when the cable breaks for the first time

Freischutz : Wild Hunt
DER FREISCHUTZ Max is helping Caspar mould the magic bullets at the Wolfs Glen when a thunder storm breaks out and the Wild Hunt is seen in the sky

Severn Tunnel Flooded
When water breaks through into the workings of the Severn Tunnel, diver Lambert penetrates the heading to close a door isolating the affected section

Romanian Peasants Panic
Panic breaks out when a mobile cinema gives peasants of Bessarabia, Romania, their first glimpse of the wonders of cinematography !

Red Sea Meteor
METEOR OVER SINAI is interpreted by Arabs as a portent of grave events in the Red Sea area : shortly after, war breaks out between Italy and Ethiopia

Thames Tunnel Accident
The fatal accident of January 1828 - water breaks into the workings and floods the partially completed tunnel

Girl Breaks Firewood 19C
A little girl breaks firewood across her knee: a bright fire blazes in the hearth

Flood in Swiss Valley
Torrents of mud fill a Swiss valley when a lake breaks its natural barrier

Hush-A-Bye (Greenaway)
- though here its Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top... when the wind blows, the cradle will rock, when the bough breaks, cradle will fall

Garden Chat 19C
A young woman breaks from her gardening to chat with a neighbouring farmer who leans on the gate

Previewing a Lover
A Spanish girl breaks a raw egg into a glass of water on St Johns Eve : the shape it makes tells her what kind of lover she will have

Emperor Meiji
When Shogun Keiki abdicates, civil war breaks out, but the emperor Meiji is able to seize control and makes a triumphal entry into Yedo (Tokyo). Now Japan starts to modernise

Mr Smallweed Breaks Pipe
Mr Smallweed breaks the Pipe of Peace Matthew Bagnet (left) and George Rouncewell visit the userer Joshua Smallweed

Hector Attacks Greeks
Hector having driven the Greeks to their retrenchments breaks down the palace walls with a great stone & with his troops drives them to their ships

Triumvirate Quarrel
The triumvirate breaks up when Octavian quarrels with Marcus Antonius in the Senate

Peter Breaks Jail
Peter, thrown into jail at Jerusalem by order of Herod, is freed by an angel

Riots at Lyon
Whatever Paris decides, Lyon objects : street fighting breaks out when the silkworkers protest against the monarchy of Louis Philippe

Pan / Woodward / Pirate Ship
A fight breaks out on board the pirate ship

Riddling a Changeling
A Galloway couple, believing their child a changeling, take it on Hallowe en to the village wise woman who riddles it in rowan smoke which breaks the spell

Refugees 1812
When war breaks out, residents near the Canadian frontier, near Niagara, flee southwards through the snow

Hunting Party Picnic
An aristocratic hunting party breaks for lunch - a picnic on the grass

Folklore / Casseur De Bois
LE CASSEU DE BOIS (= branch-breaker) of Berry, central France, entity who breaks tree branches and may challenge the peasant as he gathers his firewood

Fire in a Hotel Room
Fire breaks out in a hotel room when a late-night reader falls asleep

Pazzis Fight the Medicis
Supported by pope Sixtus IV, the PAZZI family conspire against the MEDICI at Firenze - fighting breaks out in the Chiesa del Riparata

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