August Collection (page 82)

Johann August Sutter
JOHANN AUGUST SUTTER German pioneer in California, on whose land was found the nugget of gold which led to the California Gold Rush

Katzbach Blucher 1813
NAPOLEONIC WAR Von Blucher encourages his men before the battle of Katzbach

Soldier Liberates Village
LIBERATION SCENES A Soviet soldier is greeted in a liberated village

Franco-Pruss / Strasbourg
A Prussian bombardment of Strasbourg, across water, at night, firing with canons

Goethe with August
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE German writer with his patron Karl August of Weimar

W G Grace at the Oval
W G Grace during a match against Australia at the Oval

FULTONs CLERMONT
Robert Fultons Clermont, which steamed from New York to Albany and back, August 17-22 1807; the first economically viable steamboat

Klondike / Nome 1900
FRONT STREET, NOME, ALASKA during the Gold Rush

Strindberg / Self Photo
JOHAN AUGUST STRINDBERG Swedish playwright and novelist, best known for his play Miss Julie (1888), seen writing at his desk

Sport / Climbing / Alps
MONT BLANC CONQUERED Alpine guide Jacques Belmont, after several unsuccessful earlier attempts, is the first to reach the summit

Napoleonic War / Prussians
NAPOLEONIC WAR Prussians fight with bayonets at Hagelberg

Events / Britain / 1745
Charles Edward Stuart ( the Young Pretender ) draws his sword as the Highland Clans gather to fight for his cause

Trafalgar Square 1939
Trafalgar Square and Nelsons Column, floodlit at night, one month before the outbreak of World War Two. Date: August 1939

Battle of the Spurs / 1513
At the Battle of the Spurs, Henry VIII and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I rout a French army intent on breaking their siege of the city of Therouanne in the Netherlands

Road Block / Germany / 1921
During political unrest suspect cars are stopped on country roads

1819 / Peterloo / Hunt
Radical Henry Orator Hunt, begins his speech to the crowd gathered at St Peters Fields Manchester. He is interrupted by the fatal yeomanry charge, arrested and imprisoned

August III of Poland
AUGUST III King of Poland and FRIEDRICH AUGUST II Elector of Sachsen

August II of Poland
AUGUST II THE STRONG King of Poland and FRIEDRICH AUGUST I Elector of Sachsen

Wwi / 1914 / Louvain Sacked
A French view of the German capture and sacking of the Belgian town of Louvain

Napoleonic / 1809 / Flushing
British forces under Lord Chatham attack the French garrison at Flushing during the Walcheren Expedition. Flushing is taken on 15 August 1809

Crecy (Dupray)
CRECY The decisive defeat of the French by the English is won at the expense of fierce hand to hand fighting as well as the superiority of the bowmen

Blenheim (Dupray)
BATTLE OF BLENHEIM Marlborough defeats the French and Bavarians

Naval Action 1798
NAVAL ACTION OFF CANDIA Engagement between the British warship Leander and the French Le Genereux

Opium War / Taku Forts
Capture of the Taku Forts

Battle of Novi, 1799
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN The Russians defeat the French at Novi

Bomarsund Bombarded - 1
Bomarsund, a Russian fortress in the Baltic, is bombarded by Hecla and other British warships before being taken by a combined French and British force under sir Charles Napier

Charge at Gravelotte
Battle of GRAVELOTTE - the cavalry charge of the French dragons

Turks Lift Rhodes Siege
The Turks lift their siege of Rhodes

Hofmann / Loescher Cdv
August Wilhelm Von Hofmann German Chemist

KORFANTYs COUP / 1920
Korfantys nationalist coup in Upper Silesia

Rus / Jap War: Russ Bodies
Japanese find the bodies of Russian sailors washed up on the Liao-Toung shore

Rus / Jap War: Convicts
Desperate in the face of escalating defeat, the Russian army accepts convicts, released from their chains in Siberian prisons

Alexander Abdicates / 1886
Prince Alexander is compelled to abdicate at gunpoint

Ww1 / Soldier & his Wife
A soldier and his wife or girlfriend

Chamberlain / Commons 1901
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Liberal politician speaking in the House of Commons on 2 August 1901: it is the Governments policy to bring the Boer War to an end

1857 Mutiny / Delhi
The repulse of a sortie from Delhi

AUGSBURG DAMAGED
The German cruiser Augsburg is damaged in action

Revolution / Peasants 1789
Peasants destroy feudal title deeds

Max Bruch / Postcard
MAX KARL AUGUST BRUCH German composer

Rudolf Defeats Ottokar
Emperor Rudolf stands victoriously over the corpse of Ottokar II of Bohemia, having defeated him at Marchfeld

Burke & Wills / Melbourne
Robert O Hara Burke and W. J. Wills were the first men to cross Australia from south to north. Leaving Melbourne

French Leave Dusseldorf
French evacuate Dusseldorf

Edward IV Meets Louis XI
Edward IV meets Louis XI on a bridge over the Somme

Art / Regional / German Art
Jovial winter scene on the August-Bridge in Dresden showing crowds enjoying the snow and winter sunshine

Operation Dragoon / 1944
Operation Dragoon, the successful allied invasion of Southern France. Within 30 days it had linked up with the Normandy invasion forces

Webb / Channel / Frad Cdv
MATTHEW WEBB Swimmer of the Channel in August 1875

Gibraltar Workers
Gibraltar : Spanish workers are blindfolded as they go to work, so they won t see things which they might report to the Germans and Italians

F W a Froebel
Friedrich Wilhelm August FROEBEL German educator

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