Retaliation Collection

Hippopotamus attacking a canoe, South Africa, 1857
Engraving showing a female hippopotamus attacking a large canoe, South Africa, c.1857. Apparently, the hippopotamus had been robbed of her offspring and decided to capsize the canoe in retaliation

Vickers 1102 VC10 9G-ABP (msn 824), of Middle East Airlines at Beirut International Airport. This aircraft was one of those destroyed by Israeli commandos at Beirut Airport on 28 December 1968

Comic postcard, Man at a school of aviation Date: 20th century

The Battle of Bloody Brook
An ambush on the escorted harvest wagons for the Deerfield settlements by Nipmuc warriors, led by the sachem Muttawmp. This was in retaliation to the Deerfield colony encroaching on their allies

American mule kicks out at Japanese Agressor - WW2
American mule kicks out at Japanese Aggressor (Emperor Hirohito?) - WW2 - USA - Propaganda First Day Cover envelope Date: 1943

W. S. P. U Flag Bristol Arson 1913
The original W.S.P.U flag in purple, white and green cloth which was stolen from the offices and shop, Queens Road, Bristol, October 1913

A man and his mule in Egypt
An Egyptian man is kicked by his mule, probably in retaliation for giving it too much to carry. Date: early 20th century

Stuntman attempts to fly car over river
Stuntman Bill Johnston of Destruction Squad was supposed to fly his car over a river in the English Midlands, but failed to achieve sufficient speed due to the wet ground

British soldiers with three large shells, WW1
A group of British soldiers with three large shells addressed: To Capt. Fryatts Murderers, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Retaliation, or the cudgeller caught
A cudgeller is reprimanded by three angry folk, who surround him and wave their cudgels frantically. Date: 18th Century

Dispute in a rail carriage
A fight breaks out among business men in a train carriage, who are debating fiscal retaliation. 1903

The Bear and the Bees
THE BEAR AND THE BEES The bear is stung by a bee and in retaliation overturns the hive whereupon hundreds of bees attack and sting him

Terrorist V Zassulich
Vera Zasulich (1849-1919), a leading nihilist, shoots and wounds police chief Trepov in retaliation for his brutality : she is tried but acquitted by a sympathetic court

Terrorist V Zasulich
Vera Zasulich (1849-1919), a leading nihilist, shoots and wounds police chief Trepov in retaliation for his brutality : she is tried but acquitted by a sympathetic court

Umberto Assassinated
In retaliation for the brutal suppression of a workers demo at Milano, anarchist Gaetano Bresci travels from America to Italy and shoots Umberto I at a sports meeting at Monza

Callot / Peasant Ambush
Peasants retaliate on the soldiers who pillage their farms, attacking them with their threshing flails

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