Africa Collection (page 8)

Britannia and Cetewayo
Retribution : Britannia seizes the Zulu chief Cetewayo round the neck, in a landscape dominated by the dead bodies of both British soldiers and Zulus

Colonel Festing rescuing Lieut. Eardley-Wilmots body
Colonel Francis Worgan Festing (1833-1886), rescuing the body of Lieut. Eardley-Wilmot during the Ashanti War (1873-74) from a sketch by the officer of the expedition

Sudan Wars: Tel-El-Kebir
BATTLE OF TEL-EL-KEBIR Wolseley defeats Arabi Pashas army decisively, quashing the revolt : henceforward Egypt will be under British rule

Italians Take Adwa
The Italians invade and capture Adua, against a poorly equipped and ill-prepared Ethiopian army

Ethiopia / Call to War
Smoke signals summon the country-men to join their regiments as Ethiopia prepares for war

Foreign Legion / Algeria
French Foreign Legion in action in the Sud-Oranais

CITY OF NAGPUR LINER
passenger liner of the Ellerman line, sailing to India via South Africa

Tanks Near Tobruk
North Africa : a German tank destroys a British tank in Marmarica, during the fiercely contested battle for Tobruk, Libya

World Map / Pomponius Mela
A world map according to Pomponius Mela, showing Europe, Africa, Asia, and the rest in the lower half

Eritrea / Massawa 1895
Eritrea, East Africa: the port and quayside of Massawa

Ethiopia / Gondar Palace
The Royal Palace

Map / North Africa 19C
Tunisia and Tripoli (now largely Libya)

Dog Show Childrens Class
The Transvaal Kennel Club Show, Johannesburg, childrens class. In white dresses and hats, very young children hold their dogs for the judges inspection, watched by parents

Battle of Tel-El-Kebir
British artillery entering the enemy lines at Tel-el-Kebir

Lion (Bewick)
Felis leo This animal is produced in Africa, and the hottest parts of Asia according to Bewick

Nigerian Jujuh House
A Jujuh house, or house of worship, in Biafra (present-day Nigeria). To European visitors this was magic rather than religion - and black magic at that !

Livingstone / Last Journey
Livingstones last journey: near Lake Bangweulu, Zambia

Cecil Rhodes / Menpes 1900
CECIL RHODES Statesman, entrepreneur and imperialist in South Africa, on horseback at his home at Grote Schuur, 1900

Baptism, Congo
Baptist missionaries conduct a baptism ceremony at San Salvador, Lower Congo

Ghana / Elmina C1600
Port founded by Portuguese traders in 1482; also known as Fort St George

Ethiopia / Negus Menelik
The Negus Menelik II at the battle of Aduwa, where the Italian invaders under general Baratieri were routed with enormous loss

Events / Africa / Libya
The U.S. wages war on Algerian pirates : Stephen Decaturs life is saved when Reuben James interposes his head between a pirate sword and his commander

Heliograph used by British army in Africa
Heliograph used in the British army in Africa, probably during the Boer War (1899-1902). The heliograph is a wireless telegraph that signals by flashes of sunlight (generally using Morse code)

Hybrid clivia, Clivia cyrtanthiflora
Clivia cyrtanthiflora, hybrid of Clivia miniata and Clivia nobilis (Imantophyllum cyrtanthiflorum). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens

Thorny gardenia, Hyperacanthus amoenus (Gardenia amoena). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Haworthia minor or Tulista minima (Least pearl aloe, Aloe margaritifera minima). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The

Jacques Kallis - South Africa cricketer Date: 1990s - 2000s

Paul Kruger, State President of Transvaal as an Ogre
O!. Stephanus Johannes Paulus ( Paul ) Kruger, State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal) (1825-1905) - as an Ogre causing nightmares for various British Politicians of the day

Bab el Mansour Gate - Fez, Morocco
View through the city gate Bab el Mansour, built in 1732, in Fes (Fez), Morocco. The city gate leads to the old town. Date: circa 1930s

TO THE RESCUE ! Lord Charles Beresford relieves Sir Charles Wilson on the Nile island of Meruat Date: 1885

Zulu War - Recovery of the Colours of the 24th in the Buffalo River after Battle of Isandlwana (of 22 January 1879) and honouring the graves of Lts Melville and Coghill Date: 1879

Poster of Niger steamers loading groundnuts
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, showing Niger steamers loading groundnuts. Date: C.1930

The Suez Canal - The Casino. 1934

Bus passengers, Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1980s

8th Crusade - Fleet
EIGHTH CRUSADE The ships which carried Louis IX from France to Carthage on his fatal crusade in North Africa Date: 1270

Victoria Falls and Zambesi River, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Victoria Falls and bridge with crossing train over the Zambesi River, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Date: 1906

The Country Club at Johannesburg
The rendezvous of Rand society - the Johannesburg Country Club situated in a suburb of Auckland Park. Date: 1929

Imperial Hotel, Parys, Orange River Colony, South Africa. Date: 1910s

Port Natal, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Mariannhill Monastery, Natal Province, South Africa
Entrance gatehouse of Mariannhill Monastery, originally a Trappist settlement near Pinetown, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1920

Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, East Africa
Mweya Safari Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, East Africa. Date: circa 1954

Wheel Ride - La Grande Rome - Morocco. Date: circa 1910s

Lt Browning, Major Kinloch and Dr Francis Brett Young
Lieutenant Browning, Major Kinloch (Calcutta Volunteer Battery) and Dr Francis Brett Young in East Africa during WW1. circa 1916

Tsavo river near Tembo camp
View of the Tsavo River from nearby Tembo Camp, Kenya, East Africa, during WW1. 1915

Egyptian Pottery Shop
A pottery shop in an Egyptian village Date: 1912

Panoramic view of Oran, NW Algeria
Panoramic view of Oran harbour and city, NW Algeria. Date: circa 1920

South Africa - The Esplanade, Durban
The Esplanade, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Date: 1927

Giza. Great Sphinx and. Great Pyramid of Giza
The Giza Sphinx. 26th-25th c. BC. EGYPT. GIZA. Giza. Egyptian art. Old Kingdom. Sculpture

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