Fighting Collection (#33)

Firefighters fighting blaze from city roofs

The snake wagon. Date c1874

The struggle for the nest. Date c1873

Your chums are fighting - why aren t you?. Poster shows silhouette of soldiers, bayonets drawn, in battle. Date 1917

So hilft dein Geld dir kampfen! In U-Boote verwandelt... zeichne Kriegsanleihe!. Poster shows the ghost of a sailor with his arm around a soldier. He is pointing to a sinking submarine

Fighting on the Indian Frontier: the Tirah Expedition, 1897
On the Chagru Kotal: looking west at the scene of the action of October 20th on Dargai Hill, when the Gordon Highlanders stormed the heights, led by Colonel Mathias. Date: 1897

Men fighting with daggers & sword while two women stand to side and woman gestures from stairs. Date 1881?

Mexican with his two fighting cocks, Crystal City, Texas. Date 1939 Mar

Grant at the capture of the city of Mexico. Ulysses S. Grant. Date between 1860 and 1870

General Charles de Gualle of Fighting France. Date 1942?

Food riot in Dungarvon
During the famine in Ireland a food riot breaks out in Dungarvon Date: 1846

The arena, interior, Nimes, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. The arena, interior, Nimes, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Furious fighting at Amur. Date ca. 1919

The battle of Usri i. e. Ussuri, Siberia. Captain Konomi died
The battle of Usri i.e. Ussuri, Siberia. Captain Konomi died in the battle, fighting. Date ca. 1919

John C. Heenan, Champion of the World. (The Benicia Boy.) Born in West Troy, New York, May 2 1835, Height 6 feet 1 1/2 inches, Fighting weight from 185 to 195 lbs

Military Tournament - Lifeguard vs. Dragoon - fighting sword to sword. Date: circa 1910s

Religious play, The Miracle, Olympia, West London
A scene showing two soldiers of the Inquisition during rehearsals for the religious drama The Miracle, performed in the huge arena of the Olympia exhibition centre, West London, at Christmas 1911

Marquis Wellesley at Nabob of Oudes Breakfast Table
Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley - Governor General of India (1760-1842) and his suite at Nabob of Oudes (Wazir Ali Khan)

Yankee Doodle on His Muscle. Or the way the Benicia Boy astonished the English Men. John C. Heenan (1835-1873) and Thomas Sayers (1826-1865) Date: ca. 1860

Moscow Uprising - Damage to buildings
Between 5th and 7th December, there was a general strike by Russian workers. The government sent in troops on 7th December, and a bitter street-by-street fight began in Moscow

Bullfight in France
A matador in elaborate costume, fights a bull in France. 1970s

Silhouette, To Fight Like Kilkenny Cats
To Fight Like Kilkenny Cats -- silhouette showing two cats circling each other aggressively, with pawprints visible all around them

A Boxer (Pugillatore) - Statue in the Vatican Museum Date: circa 1904

Place Royale Damage
The entrance gates of the Place Royale, Paris, bear witness to the fierce street fighting - the gates thrown down, the stonework pitted with the marks of gunfire. Date: 23-26 July 1830

1830 Revolution France
Street fighting during the 1830 revolution - overturned wagons and paving stones are used to make a barricade to prevent the army from passing. Date: 28-29 July 1830

Bullfighting - Lima, Peru Date: circa 1910s

Romanian troops on front line, WW1
Romanian troops fighting on the front line during the First World War. Date: September 1916

German propaganda leaflet for American soldiers, WW1
A German propaganda leaflet dropped behind enemy lines for American soldiers during the First World War, giving a few persuasive reasons why they should stop fighting

Father and son fighting in the Dolomites, WW1
A drawing of a German father and son, fighting in the Dolomites during the First World War. Date: 1916

Fighting in Champagne, France, WW1
Reproduction of a painting or sketch by Leon Broquet entitled Champagne, depicting fighting in north eastern France during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Battlefield in Champagne, France, WW1
Scene on a battlefield in Champagne, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: circa 1917-1918

River Steamer - Mesopotamia - WWI
River Steamer commandeered by the IWT (Inland Water Tranport) - providing transport to British forces fighting in Mesopotamia during WWI. Shatt al-Arab waterway, Basra, Iraq Date: circa 1917

Hoteldeville Damage
The facade of the Hotel de Ville, Paris, bears the scars of three days of bitter street fighting. Date: 23-26 July 1830

Paris Commune Defeated
Government forces suppress the Commune : fighting on the housetops in the Faubourg Poisonniere. Anyone with a gun or a can of petrol in their hands is summarily shot. Date: 1871

Carl Kniaziewicz
CARL KNIAZIEWICZ Polish military commander of the Polish Legion, officially part of the Italian army but fighting with Napoleon against the Russians. Date: 1762 - 1842

Constantinople Fall - 6
The emperor Constantinus XI Paleologus is last seen fighting as the gates of the city fall to the Turks. Date: 29 May 1453

Street Barricades
The Communards erect barricades throughout Paris to hamper the assaults of government forces : they are scenes of bitter fighting. Date: April 1871

Fighting at Munster
Street fighting between the Anabaptists and the bourgeois citizens. Date: 1535

Japan - Geisha girls mock fighting
Japan - Geisha girls at play. They may be either mock fighting (the geisha on the left appears to have balled fists) or possibly playing scissors-paper-rock, which originated in Japan

Russo-Japanese War - Battle of Feng Huang Cheng
Japanese troops occupied the town of Feng-Huang-Cheng (now Phoenix Town in the Hunan Province), Manchuria, (part of the Eastern Chinese Empire) virtually unopposed on 5th May 1904 Date: 1904

French and British soldiers in wartime
Two French soldiers join hands with a British soldier, " united against the barbarians". Date: early 20th century

London Travel Chaos
A miserable scene at a London bus stop, commuters nearly fighting to get onto buses, perhaps during a tube strike. Date: 1980s

Sea battle in progress, WW1
A sea battle in progress during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

A Sea Battle - New Guinea

Four boys playing at Bullfighting. The dead wooden bull is dragged away by a team of two piebald rocking horses Date: circa 1910s

Bears in a bear pit, Paris
Bears in a bear pit in Paris, with people watching from above. 19th century

Brtish troops returning from fighting, France, WW1
British troops returning to a French town by bus for a rest after heavy fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Serbian troops relaxing, WW1
Serbian troops relaxing during a break from fighting, First World War. Date: 1914-1918

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