Incident Collection (page 5)

Counting compensation money for murder of Mr Richardson
Sketches in Japan: Counting the compensation money for the murder of Mr Richardson. Charles Lennox Richardson was a Yokohama based merchant who was killed by a large armed retinue of Shimazu

Fighting the Turks
An incident in the struggle for Serbias independence from Ottoman rule : Serbian commander Mihailo Ilik leads an attack on the Turks at Tcemerniza

The Lost Cunarder
Photograph of the Lusitania, a floating palace, torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of 1200 lives

Lusitania - an American fatality
An American victim of the sinking of the Lusitania being stretchered through Queenstown covered in the American flag. The Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of

Assassination in Sarajevo
Photograph showing the arrest of Gavrilo Princips, leader of the group of Serbian nationalists, who assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on June 28th 1914

Fable / Partial Judge
THE PARTIAL JUDGE After an incident with an oxen and a bull, a farmer finds that a lawyer is keener to see justice done when its in his favour rather than against him

Jean-Baptiste Marchand
JEAN BAPTISTE MARCHAND French soldier and explorer in Africa, involved in the Fashoda incident causing diplomatic crisis: served in China and in World War One

Slip of earth on the Great Northern Railway line
Slip of earth at the Spittal-Gate cutting off the Great Northern Railway. The incident happened just south of Grantham, over a thousand tons of earth fell on the track alomost burying the engine

Rastatt Incident 5
in a wood near Rastatt (or Rastadt) the French plenipotentiaries to the Congress of Rastatt are murdered by Austrians to impede the negotiations

Rastatt Incident 4
The French plenipotentiaries to the Congress of Rastatt are murdered by Austrians to impede the negotiations

Revolt of Helvetii
An incident in the revolt of the Helvetii - Alpinula begs Caecinna for the life of Julius Alpinus, her father who is one of the leaders of the Helvetii against the Romans

Wounded Officer
A wounded officer is carried off the battlefield by his men. The uniforms are German or Austrian, and this is probably an incident of the Seven Years War

BOOK BURNING / 10. 5. 1933
Disruptive books from private and public libraries were burned in front of the University of Berlin. This incident provoked a wave of disgust throughout the world

Wolf Britannia / Fashoda
Britannia seen as the big bad wolf at the time of the Fashoda Incident, a territory dispute in south Sudan between Kitcheners Anglo-Egyptian army and Marchands French

Dr Henry Sacheverel
HENRY SACHEVEREL English clergyman, the centre of a religio-political incident, where he attacked the whig government in two sermons (1709). Date: ?1674 - 1724

Betty Hill Explains
At the site where on 19 September 1961 an alien spaceship landed and she and her husband Barney were taken on board, Betty Hill describes the incident to investigators

Battle of Sediman
Albeit unlisted in any of our reference books, the battle of SEDIMAN is almost certainly an incident of Napoleons ill-starred Egyptian campaign

Garibaldi Lands Marsala
THE RISORGIMENTO Garibaldi and the thousand land at Marsala, Sicily - the first incident in the campaign which will lead to the unification of Italy

The Gaspee Burnt
THE GASPEE INCIDENT - The citizens of Rhode Island, angered by British tax demands, board the grounded revenue schooner Gaspee and burn her

Picking up his Cap
An incident of the street fighting - a boy who has dropped his cap runs to pick it up though guns are firing all around him !

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