Fighting Collection (page 14)

Communards defending the Elysee Palace; Paris Commune 1871
Communards defending barricades near the Elysee Palace, during fighting with the Versailles Governments troops, Paris, 1871. Date: 1871

Freemasons planting banners outside the Porte Maillot; Paris
A group of Freemasons planting their banners in front of the Porte Maillot, during the Paris Commune, April 1871. The Freemasons were one of many groups who tried to encourage Thiers

Masonic Banners on the Paris Ramparts; Paris Commune 1871
Masonic banners flying on the Paris ramparts, near the Octroi Gate and Porte Maillot, 1871. The Freemasons were one of many groups who tried to encourage Thiers

SIR JOHN NORRIS military commander who spent his life fighting Englands enemies here, there and everywhere. with his autograph Date: 1647 - 1597

EMILIE LEHMANN Polish patriot and feminist who besides fighting for the liberty of Poland wrote valuable papers on the emancipation of women. Date: circa 1848

Hundred Years War, siege of town
Siege of a town. Date: circa 1380s

Hundred Years War, storming a fort
Siege of a castle, in the Hundred Years War. Date: circa 1380s

SOCIAL / OYSTER SALOON 19C
A lively scene in the Oyster Saloon, Bridges Street, London. Date: circa 1820

BOYS FIGHTING 1869
Two country boys fight; a girl weeps. Date: 1869

BOYS PILLOW FIGHT C1885
Three boys stage a pillow fight in their nightgowns. Date: circa 1885

SLEDGE FIRE ENGINE
In places where it is impossible to use a motor fire engine, fire fighting equipment is mounted on sledges. Date: circa 1900

BATTLE OF NOVARA 1849
BATTLE OF NOVARA The Austrians under Radetzky inflict a crippling defeat on the Piedmontese, who after fighting valorously quit the battlefield in disorder Date: 23 March 1849

GAMING DEN / MYTTON
A hell of a row in a hell. Mytton shows fight. A brawl breaks out amongst some high- spirited gents in a gaming den. Included is the eccentric squire John Mytton (1796-1834) Date: 1820s

ENGLISH KNIGHTS FIGHTING
Two mounted Knights in mortal combat. Date: circa 1260

1920 / RED ARMY COSSACKS
Red Army Cossacks at Soldau, during fighting against Polish nationalists. Date: September 1920

Captain Eyre Massey Shaw (1828 - 1908) Leader of fire brigades, author on the techniques and technicalities of fighting fires Date: 1871

MONTENEGRO / TURKEY
Film-makers risk their lives to record the fighting between the Montenegrans and the Turks Date: October 1912

COMMUNE / ON THE BARRICADE
A defiant woman Communard holds aloft the red flag as she stands on a barricade erected to defend Paris from government troops Date: 1871

HAIL-FIGHTING MACHINE
Dupuis-Delcourt proposes this device - the electro- subtracteur - which, he tells us, will prevent hailstorms by electrically subtracting ice from the stormclouds. Maybe. Date: 1850

1741 / ENRAGED MUSICIAN
A violinist is disturbed by a ballad singer, a screeching parrot, a piper, a drummer, a barking dog, a knife grinder, fighting cats and other noises Date: 1741

COMMUNITY / CHARITY / HOBOES
American Hoboes and a Railroad employee come to blows. Date: circa 1888

SOLDIER IN ARMOUR
A Roman soldier in fighting gear - leather tunic and shin guards, helmet but bare feet

TROJAN WAR - FIGHTING
Greek and Trojan warriors engage in hand-to-hand combat

FOLKLORE / CYNOCEPHALIES
Dog-headed creatures, reported by travellers in India; they are depicted fighting the monsters of the forest, using weapons, so they are evidently more-or-less human Date: medieval

Battle of Waterloo, fighting at La Haye-Sainte, 1815
Battle of Waterloo, the fighting at La Haye-Sainte, 1815 Date: 18 June 1815

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - First Publication
The Martian Fighting- Machines wreck the railways. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

King Henry V at Battle of Agincourt
Henry V leads the English to victory at Agincourt, defeating an army four times as large : the French lost 8000, the English 400 during the hundred years war Date: 1415

Hogarth, The Cockpit - a satirical illustration showing the blindness of a man drawn into betting on the match, and other forms of debauchery. Date: 1759

American soldiers with dogs in the Philippines
American soldiers fighting in the Philippines during the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) let loose the dogs of war against native rebels. Date: 1899

Alexander the Great, King of Macedon
Alexander the Great, King Alexander III of Macedon. He fights Hindus and Persians at Ephesus. Date: 356 - 323 BC

European knights mount an unsuccessful siege 1390
European knights mount an unsuccessful siege on a city near Tunis, Africa. Defeated, they soon return home

Mexican bullfighter, the picador
A Mexican bullfighter - the Picador. Date: 1909

Canada - Ontario - Mining Town - Cobalt - Firefighters on shed roof fighting blaze. Date: circa 1908

Royal Air Force Captured Messerschmitt Bf 110C-5 AX772 (Luftwaffe 5F-CM of $(F)/14) (W.Nr. 2177) Buit by Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG 5F-CM was based at Cherbourg

Westland Whirlwind HAS. 7 XL880
Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 XL880 (msn WA230) at the 1958 SBAC Farnborough Air Show. (SBAC - Society of British Aircraft Constructors) First flown on 25 July 1958 and delivered in August 1958

Looking down on after deck and fighting tops of USS Nevada
WW1 - Looking down on after deck and fighting tops of USS Nevada - pictured before her 1927 refit. Lattice masts, or cage masts

Physical Training and Bayonet Fighting Staff 97th TR Batt
The Physical Training and Bayonet Fighting Staff of the 97th Training Reserve (TR) Battalion - Aldershot Barracks, 1917. Date: 1917

Two Shoeshine boys fighting over a potential customer - humorous images used as a promotional tool for Blecao - the blurb for which reads as follows

Advertisement for French war bonds, WW1
Advertisement for French war bonds during the First World War -- give your gold to fight for victory. 1914-1918

Town versus Gown fight in Oxford
Town versus Gown brawl in Oxford in the 1850s, with undergraduates fighting locals. Date: 1850s

The Fight at the Cock Inn, 1777, by Francisco de Goya
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. The Fight at the Cock Inn, 1777. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Saint Michael Archangel. By Master of Zafra. 1495-1500. Depicting the Archangel attacking the dragon, symbol of sin. In the upper part, heavenly choirs and, on background

Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, 3rd pattern, 1943, carried at Normandy Landings, Sgts Scott, No 3 Commando, 1944. Unknown maker. Date: 1940

Painted wooden chest from Tutankhamuns tomb
A wooden chest covered in plaster from the tomb of PharaoTutankhamun (reigned 13321323 BC) as discovered by Howard Carter among others in 1922 in the Valley of Kings

Pergamon Altar. Aether and Uranus
Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. Gigantomachy: south frieze

Wrestlers, 1853, by Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). French painter. Wrestlers, 1853. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

History of Crusades. Seventh Crusade. Siege of Damietta (June 7, 1249) by Louis IX of France (1226-1270). The city was taken with little resistance from the Egyptians. Miniature.15th century

Crimean War (1853-1856). Siege of Sevastopol, 1854-1855, by Franz Alekseyevich Roubaud (1856-1928). The city, on the Black Sea, was besieged for 11 months. Detail

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