Bombarding Collection

First Balkan War (1912 - 1913) - Hand-to-hand combat
Hand-to-hand combat during the First Balkan War as Greek troops overun a Turkish gun battery. The war lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece)

Bombardment of Odessa by the English and French, 22 April 1854 - the explosion of the Imperial Mole Date: 1854

Attack on Sidon by Commodore Charles Napier, 26 September 1840. British, Turkish and Austrian ships bombarding Egyptian positions in the Lebanese port of Sidon during the Syrian War

HMS Swiftsure - Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Royal Navy - HMS Swiftsure, the lead ship of the Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleship, moored up. Originally known as Constitucion, ordered by the Chilean Navy

General George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, Siege of Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, Scotland, February 1651. The castle was bombarded with cannon fire for twelve days, and left in ruins. Date: 1651

Bombardment of Flushing (Vlissingen, Netherlands), August 1809, during the Walcheren Campaign, an unsuccessful British expedition. Date: 1809

HMS Rinaldo bombarding Salangore in the Strait of Malacca. Date: 1871

Plaque to Cruiser Montcalm, Port en Bessin Normandy
The Free French Ship Montcalm was one of the three Cruisers in Bombarding Force C which supported the American Landings on Omaha Beach. It later took part in Operations in the Mediterranean

Japanese Marine Field Artillery Corps bombarding Chinese
Japanese Marine Field Artillery Corps bombarding the Chinese. 1933

French and British Warships bombard the Russian port of Odessa : the French steamer Vauban is set afire by red-hot shot fired from the Russian batteries Date: 22 April 1854

BOMBARDMENT OF SAN JUAN Date: June 1898

CHILE CIVIL WAR 1891
The bombardment of Iquique during the civil war in Chile. Date: 1891

WW1 - U-Boats attack, Varna in Bulgaria, 27th October 1915
WW1 - The drawing is from a German paper showing German submarines and Bulgarian war-ships going out against the Russians

Leningrad Bombarded
German artillery bombarding Leningrad (now St Petersburg) Date: 1942

French bombarding fort of San Juan de Ulua, Mexico
The French navy bombarding the fort of San Juan de Ulua (Saint-Jean d Ulloa), overlooking the seaport of Veracruz in Mexico, during the Pastry War. Date: 27 November 1838

HMS Redoubtable bombarding off coast of Flanders, WW1
The British battleship HMS Redoubtable (the renamed HMS Revenge) carrying out bombardment duties on German positions off the coast of Flanders during the First World War. Date: 7 September 1915

Bombardment of allied positions
Allied forces and encampments being bombared by Turkish forces from the Asian side of the Dardanelles during the Gallipoli campaign - June 19th 1915

First Balkan War (1912 - 1913) - Battle of Bonarchisni
The Battle of Bonarchisni, 16th - 21st October 1912. The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece)

Monitor bombarding Lukuledi, East Africa, WW1
Monitor bombarding Lukuledi from Lindi Bay, East Africa (now in Tanzania), July 1917, during WW1. 1917

Bombardment of Scarborough - German navy gun-crew
The raid on Scarborough took place on 16th December 1914. It was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British seaport town. German gun-crew are pictured in action from their warship

Attack on the town of Novitska in the White Sea, 1854
Attack on the Russian town of Novitska during the Crimean War by the Miranda and Brisk, English ships in the squadron in the White Sea

Bombarding the Zepps - advertising leaflet for this game.. Commemorative Art

German 42cm guns bombarding Antwerp
German 42cm guns and Austrian howitzers bombarding Antwerp in autumn 1914. 1914

Dreadnought Queen Elizabeth in action by G. H. Davis
Our greatest dreadnought in action -- the Queen Elizabeth bombarding the Dardanelles forts during the First World War. Date: 1915

British bombarding German trenches, Western Front, WW1
British troops bombarding German trenches on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Allied ship in action in the Dardanelles, Turkey, WW1
Allied ship in action in the Dardanelles, Turkey, during the First World War. Date: 1915

En route to Constantinople -WWI
Propaganda postcard from early WWI era, showing British and French navy vessels aproaching (and assaulting) the walls of Constantinople, Turkey. Date: 1915

Bombardment of Scutari, First Balkan War
Montenegrin gunners loading a siege canon at Muritza during the bombardment of Scutari during the First Balkan War (1912-13). Date: 1912

The Mendi Expedition. Boats bombarding enemy positions
Boats bombarding the enemys position on the River Jong in Sierra Leone, West Africa during the Mendi expedition where the 3rd battalion of the West Indian regiment were sent to suppress an uprising

HMS Ramillies bombarding Turkish positions
Birds eye view (taken from a seaplane) of the British warship HMS Ramillies bombarding Turkish positions in the Gulf of Ismid in early July 1920

Abyssinian Expedition: The storming of Magdala on Easter Mon
The British 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia was a punitive expedition against King Theodore, after he had imprisoned missionaries and representatives of the British Government

1st Balkan War - unexploded shell
Macedonia - a Turkish Notable (Dignitary) in his garden looking at a Bulgarian shell which had not exploded. The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913

Kjobenhavn Bombarded
Copenhagen is bombarded by hostile warships - but we cannot trace who is doing the bombarding or why !

Italian siege-gun
An Italian 305mm siege-gun bombarding an Austrian Trentino mountain fort

Bombarding Sebastopol
A mortar battery bombards the besieged city

Prussian Siege Battery before Paris; Franco-Prussian War, 18
Illustration showing a Prussian siege battery bombarding Paris, with the Prussian ranks of cannon into the distance. Fighting went on in Paris for four months before the French capitulated in March

Foreigners Leave Edirne
BULGARIA / TURKEY The Bulgarians reluctantly allow foreigners to leave the Turkish city of Edirne (formerly Adrianople) which they are bombarding

Bombarding Northern City
Artillery bombarding a northern city

Sveaborg Rebellion, Suomenlinna, Finland
Scene at the Sveaborg Rebellion, which began on 30 June 1906. It took place at the sea fortress Suomenlinna (Sveaborg in Swedish and Russian) as part of the Russian Revolution

Monitor Bombarding Gaza
British monitor M31 bombards Gaza at dawn

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