Fighting Collection (page 4)

Barricades 1588
THE WARS OF RELIGION The Ligue Catholique organises the Day of Barricades in Paris, with street fighting between the opposing parties

Scots against Edward I
The English forces of King Edward I battle against the Scots under William Wallace

French light cavalry at Lassigny, World War One
The charge of the French Light Cavalry against the Germans on the road to Lassigny (a village between Montvidier and Noyon in France) during World War One. Date: 1914

Duelling in cloudland, aerial fighting 1917
Clouds play no mean part in aerial fighting. The hard-pressed biplanes will use them for cover, the chaser will hide in them with the hope of catching an unwary foe, unpleasantly near

Fighting, Pte St Denis
Fighting at the porte Saint- Denis. Date: 29 July 1830

How WWI was fought
" As it is for most of us" World War I was a slog, described by many as " 90% routine and 10% terror." Although soldiers lived with death every day, for the most part

Arthur Uses Excalibur
He draws the magic sword Excalibur under battle conditions for the first time, fighting King Lot

Tournament joust
They rode at full gallop till they met

Red Army recruitment poster, showing a Soviet sailor and soldiers fighting: Forward to the Don!

You deserve... a smack in the nose!

USA Fort Bowie
Distant view of Fort Bowie, Arizona, in the heart of Apache country and scene of fighting with Native Americans

Fighting Cocks & Turkey
Two fighting cocks are watched by a turkey in the farmyard (illustration to the fable The Fighting Cocks and the Turkey )

Service for Servicemen
Despite the revolution, Russians are not yet atheists : in Moscows Red Square a church service is held for those still fighting on the German front

Stalingrad Street Fight
Through a narrow slit, the photographer catches a momentary glimpse of the street fighting which characterises the battle for the city

Malaria Epidemic 1901
MALARIA Fighting malaria in Italy

Pyrrhus fighting the Romans at Beneventum
Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, fighting the Romans, led by the consul Manius Curius Dentatus, at the Battle of Beneventum, near Benevento in southern Italy

Trumpet Call Ends Wwi
Zebrowski sounds the trumpet call for the Germans to stop fighting

Hippolyta / Amazon
Hippolyta, the Amazon Queen, in fighting mode

Motor Fire-Boat / London
The Beta III one of the London Fire Brigades several fire-boats, constructed by Merryweathers in 1926

Steam Fire Engine
Canterburys steam fire- engine, built be Messrs Merryweather & sons, of Greenwich

Japanese Staff Fighting
Japanese practising with their equivalent of the quarterstaff

La Guerre dans Mars (The War on Mars), by Arnould Galopin. The evil Zapatos attack the benevolent Megacephales. From Aventures Fantastiques d un Jeune Parisien

Gauls defeat Romans on the River Allia
The Gauls defeat the Romans in battle on the River Allia

Colonel Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey (Palashi, West Bengal, India), 23 June 1757, when Great Britain and the East India Company defeated the forces of the Mughal Empire

Judo as self-defence as demonstrated by Phyllis Boutell
Page showing Miss Phyllis Boutell and Mr Charles Cawkell demonstrating how judo, or ju-jitsu, can be an effective form of self-defence if attacked

Teddy Myers, woman wrestler
Teddy Myers, aka Dott O Dell and Zella Wiseman, woman wrestler born in Missouri. At twenty-four years of age she weighed 164lb and claimed the world heavy-weight championship for women

Cartoon, Excelsior! (Suffragist as Sisyphus)
Cartoon, Excelsior! A Suffragette depicted as Sisyphus pushing the large boulder of Womens Suffrage up the Parliament Hill

Jain monks arriving in New Delhi after fleeing Western Punja
Victims of the violence sweeping through India following Partition in 1947 - Jain monks arrive at Willingdon airport, New Delhi from the Gujranwala district north of Lahore in Western Punjab

Panjdeh incident - Russian encounter with Afghan forces at Pul-i-Khishty (Brick Bridge). The incident of 1885 was a diplomatic crisis between the British Empire

Sir Hector Maclean of Duart, 2nd Baronet of Morvern, leading the charge at the Battle of Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland, fought between the English

Charge of the Clan Maclean infantry (a Highland Scottish clan) at the Battle of Kilsyth, near Stirling, Scotland, 15 August 1645, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Oliver Cromwell leading the English New Model Army against a Scottish army led by David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, at the Battle of Dunbar, Scotland, 3 September 1650

The Battle of Towton, West Riding of Yorkshire, fought in a snowstorm on 29 March 1461, during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). It was a Yorkist victory. Date: 1461

Corporal John Shaw of the 2nd Life Guards fighting French cuirassiers at the Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815. A large man, he was an obvious target for the enemy

Sea fight with the Mahrattas (Maratha sailors), who captured the East India Company ship Ranger on 5 (or 8) April 1783, an action which went against the Treaty of Salbai which had ended the First

Charge of the Guards at the Battle of Inkerman, 5 November 1854, Crimean War Date: 1854

Battle of Gujrat, during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-1849), 21 February 1849. Date: 1849

Comic postcard, Married couple fighting Date: 20th century

Medieval knights fighting a duel with swords. Sir Ethelbert fights Alan over the body of Adelaide. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from The Tournament

Fighting Cocks railway station, Stockton-Darlington line
Fighting Cocks railway station, on the Stockton to Darlington line. It opened in 1825, named after the local pub where train tickets were sold

Cosys Bunker Juno Beach Normandy
This was the scene of heavy fighting on 6 June and is named after Lt William F ( Cosy ) Aitken of B Company Royal Winnipeg Rifles whose number 10 platoon took it by hurling grenades through

46 Royal Marines Commando Memorial Rots Normandy
Unusually this black marble memorial list the ages of the fallen. It commemorates the fighting in Rots and le Hamel of 11 June 1944

Chimney Sweeps or Coalmen fighting
Cartoon, Chimney Sweeps or Coalmen fighting - Black and White. 19th century

Silver plated cigarette box with battle scene, WW1
Silver plated cigarette box with battle scene after Richard Caton Woodville, First World War, with a quotation from Rudyard Kipling. 1916-1917

Storming The Beach Date: 1943

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