Besieging Collection

Cartoon, theatre managers and Queen Victoria
Cartoon, theatre managers (Irving, Toole, James and Bancroft) besieging Queen Victoria at Windsor. Now that a rumour has gone abroad that Her Majesty will one more give theatrical entertainments at

Ottoman Wars / Vienna
John III Sobieski, king of Poland, attacks the Turkish army under Kara Mustapha Pashs besieging Vienna, and though outnumbered 2 to 1 routs it and saves the city

Ballista. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration
Ancient Age. Ballista or bolt thrower, ancient missile weapon. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

Roman weapon. Onager. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883
Onager. It was an imperial Roman torsion powered siege engine. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

DEATH OF DU GUESCLIN
Bertrand du Guesclin, France's most eminent military commander, dies of dysentry while besieging Chateauneuf- Randon in Languedoc. Date: 13 July 1380

Tarpeia crushed to death by the Sabines
The legendary Tarpeia, having offered to betray Rome to the Sabines in return for gold, is crushed to death by their shields and thrown from the Tarpeian Rock. Date: 747 BC

Sheet Music Oh The Suffragettes. Oh the Suffragettes, verses made and ejaculated by Ern. Radliffe and others Chorus, Oh the dear martyrs, the sweet little tartars Besieging the House of Commons

Attack of the 47 Ronin and Ryogoku Bridge, Tokyo, Japan
Beautiful Japanese promotional postcard for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Shipping Company which ran services between San Francisco, China and Japan

First Crusade (1095-1099). Battle of Nicaea (20th June 1097), begun by the sultan Kilij-Arslan against the Crusaders besieging the city of Nicaea. Copy of a painting by Henry Serrur (1839). SPAIN

General Townshend, British Indian Army officer
General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend (1861-1924), British Indian Army officer. During the First World War he commanded an Anglo-Indian force against the Turks in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq)

Louis VIII Victorious
Louis VIII, known as le Lion, is determined to stamp out heresy in the south of France : he rides triumphantly into Avignon after besieging it for three months

Battle of Nancy
Charles le Temeraire (the Bold), duc de Bourgogne, tries to seize Lorraine, but is defated by Swiss troops while besieging Nancy, and his body is found lying in the snow

Battle of Narbonne
The Franks, besieging Narbonne which is occupied by the Saracens, are victorious in this battle, but fail to take the town which will not be theirs again until 759

Austrians V Turks - 2
After successfully besieging a Turkish stronghold, Austrian officers watch as prisoners are led out of the battered fortress

Siege of Campen
As a besieging Spanish force enters the town of Campen, German allies of the Dutch rebels evacuate the town by another gateway

The Death of Sheba
Sheba rebels against David : besieged at Abel of Beth- maachah, the inhabitants cut off his head and throw it over the wall to Joab, commander of the besieging force

Siege of Vienna 1683
SIEGE OF VIENNA 138 thousand Turks are besieging Vienna when John Sobieski III of Poland comes to the rescue and routs the Turks with enormous losses

Additional Postmen
Huge increase in the number of postmen ! A comment on the pigeon post which employs carrier pigeons to fly messages out of Paris over the heads of besieging Prussians

Burghers of Calais
Edward III, besieging Calais, receives a deputatioon of six burghers headed by Eustache de Saint-Pierre, offering themselves as hostages : his wife pleads for them, too

Romans in Spain 143Bc
Roman general Metellus, besieging a city in Spain, calls off the siege when the family of an ally are placed in a breach of the walls

C Fabius Dorso performing sacrifices
Even while the Gauls are besieging Rome, C Fabius Dorso continues to perform sacrifices on the Quirinal Hill, passing safely through the enemy camp, hoping to influence the Gods to save the city

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