Defended Collection (page 2)

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Sandcastle with lack of barbed wire
Winston Churchill: " This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm!". Lady in deckchair watching her son build a sandcastle in a garden sandpit: " There

GALVEZ, Juan (1774-1848). Agustina of Aragon

The fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station. Three kilometres from Orsova

Schloss at Eltz
Eltz, overlooking the Mosel river, must surely be one of the most romantic of castles. Easily defended by the narrow bridge, and enjoying divine protection from that shrine. Date: 1850

Zola and Maitre Labori
Maitre Labori, Dreyfuss defence counsel, with Emile Zola who fiercely defended Dreyfus : on the right is Clamenceau, another ally. Date: 1898

German officers who defended Zeebrugge, Belgium, WW1
German officers who defended the sea port of Zeebrugge against British attack during the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918), Belgium, First World War

Poster, The Castle of Cleanliness in the Land of Good Health, defended by the soap and water brigade. Issued by the Health and Cleanliness Council. 20th century

Pierre Denfert-Rochereau
PIERRE-MARIE-PHILIPPE-ARISTIDE DENFERT-ROCHEREAU French soldier who heroically defended Belfort 1870, later manager of the Comptoir d escompte, Paris. Date: 1823 - 1878

Ada-Kaleh - fortified Turkish Island
The fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station. Three kilometres from Orsoza

The Bonus Army camp defended: fighting for the flag
Fighting for the Bonus Army flag:a war veteran armed with a length of lead piping, about to strike a policeman

The Bonus Army Camp Defended
Fighting between war veterans and United States troops where at its height on 28th July, 1932. Men of the Bonus Army flinging stones and bricks at police who advance upon them

The Bonus Army camp defended: veterans forcibly removed
During the bitter struggle in Pennslysvania Avenue, Washington, on July 28th 1932: police carrying a bonus Army veteran away from the occupied area

Turks Besiege Rhodes
Having taken Constantinople, the Turks turn their eyes on Rhodes and besiege it, but it is heroically defended by the Hospitallers (Knights of St John) and the Turks retire

Metz in Dispute
The German princes agree that Metz should be French, but emperor Carl V disagrees : he tries to re-take it, but it is successfully defended by Francois de Guise

The Zulu war. Graves of the 17 men who fell in the defence o
140 British soldiers defended the fort and hospital at Rorkes Drift from 3, 000 zulu warriors on the same day that the British suffered their heaviest defeat of the war at Isandhlwana

France Josselin
The chateau de Josselin was the seat of the illustrious Rohan family : in 1395 Marguerite de Rohan gallantly and successfully defended it against Simon de Montfort

Nicolai Serini
NICOLAI SERINI Hungarian military commander who defended his country against the Turks

Fort St Angelo / Valletta
The view from the Grand Harbour toward the Fort St Angelo, Vittorosia, Valletta

Frank Lockwood / Downey
SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD lawyer who defended Charles Peace (unsuccessfully), solicitor-general

Siege of Tournai
SIEGE OF TOURNAI - Marlborough attacks the town, bravely defended by de Surville : after 56 days it is forced to surrender

PADEREWSKI PROTECTED
IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI Police Protection for Pianists -Paderewski defended on stage from his over-enthusiastic fans!

Sir Matthew Hale / Darton
SIR MATTHEW HALE English jurist who defended Archbishop Laud and other Royalists; also an MP

Defence of Wardour Cast
WARDOUR CASTLE, Wiltshire is heroically defended by Lady Blanche Arundel, but she is eventually forced to surrender. However, the Royalists recapture it later

Blanche, Lady Arundel
Blanche Somerset, baroness Arundel of Wardour, wife of Thomas, 2nd baron Arundel, who staunchly defended Wardour Castle against the Parliament forces during the Civil War

Boer War / Baden Powell
Mafeking defended by Baden Powell

Constantinople Defended
Sultan Selim III having come to terms with Napoleon, a British fleet under admiral Duckworth attacks Constantin- -ople, but is repulsed by Sebastiani and the Sultan

Jotapata Besieged 67 Ad
The Roman general Vespasian (subsequently emperor) besieges and takes the town of Jotapata, in Galilee, defended by Josephus, better known as a historian

Crusades / Acre Defended
Guillaume de Clermont tries to defend Acre, the last Christian possession in Palestine, but it falls to Sultan Malek al Aschraf

Concepts / Religious
THE FORTRESS OF FAITH The Church, surrounded by heretics and unbelievers, defended by bishops, monks and of course the Pope

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