mail_outline sales@mediastorehouse.com
Christmas Truce / PhotoBritish and German soldiers fraternising on Christmas Day abandoning their respective trenches to exchange gifts, play sports and forget the war for one day
Boer War; ColensoBATTLE OF COLENSO Buller fails to dislodge the Boers from their positions and has to retire, abandoning ten guns
Sinking of the Blucher in Great War Deeds, WW1A dramatic incident in the Battle of Dogger Bank: the German armoured cruiser Blucher sinking and HMS Arethusa, British light cruiser, standing in to save life
Ross / Victory AbandonedJohn Rosss arctic expedition: Abandoning the Victory. " They gathered on the Victory for the last time, nailed their colours to the mast, and started." Date: 1829 - 33
Last moments of HMS Courageous by G. H. DavisThe last moments of HMS Courageous after being torpedoed by a German U-boat: the crew abandoning ship in the failing evening light
For Peace at almost any price - Johnnie Turk flees - WWIFor Peace at almost any price - Johnnie Turk flees, having been let down by his German Master at the end of WWI. Baghdad and Jerusalem are abandoned
Baby Abandoned / 1841A mother abandoning her child. She places the baby into a tour and sisters of the convent will receive it on the other side. Date: 1841
Abandoning Child, ParisA working-class couple, unable to support their child, leave it at the Hospice des Enfants- Trouves (Hospice of found infants), Paris
Baby Abandoned / 1860A mother abandoning her child at a convent baby wheel
Maximilian DesertedMaximilian, Emperor of Mexico, watches the last French troops leave Mexico City, abandoning him to his fate (which turns out to be a firing-squad)