Revolution Collection (#25)

Royal Evasion - 5
The escaping royals make it as far as an inn at Varennes, but there they are recognised and forced to give up their journey and return to Paris. Date: 22 June 1791

September Massacres
Stanislas-Marie Maillard heads a tribunal which decides which of the prisoners detained in the prisons shall be guillotined as enemies of the Revolution. Date: 2-3 September 1792

Strasbourg Riots
Not to be outdone by the Parisians, the citizens of Strasbourg riot against their authorities and destroy the Hotel de ville. Date: 19 July 1789

Colonne De Juillet
The Colonne de Juillet in the place de la Bastille, Paris, commemorating the 1830 revolution, is decorated with red flags and tricouleurs by the Communards. Date: March 1871

Lamourettes Kiss
The abbe Lamourette seeks to reconcile all factions in the assemblee legislative : much hugging ensues, but Lamour- -ettes kiss becomes a byword for a hollow reconciliation. Date: 7 July 1792

Tree of Liberty
Trees of Liberty are a universal symbol of revolutionary sentiments : this one, planted at Mainz, is surmounted with the bonnet of the revolkutionaries. Date: 1793

Revolution Allegorised
The extremely popular verses of Beranger express the sentiments of the French man and woman in the street : he is an ardent supporter of the Revolution. Date: circa 1791

Attack on Barricade
The forces of law and order attempt to force a barricade built by insurgents in rue St Antoine, Paris, but even as they attack, furniture is thrown down onto their heads. Date: July 1830

Royals in the Temple
The royal family confined to the Temple prison. Date: autumn 1792

Louis and the Mob
The mob compel Louis to wear the revolutionary bonnet. Date: 20 June 1792

Vendee War - 2
Charette de la Contrie, leader of the Vendee insurgents, in combat with the Revolutionary forces. Date: 1792

Playing Cards
In the new packs of cards issued in revolutionary France, tha valets (knaves) are replaced by Republicans. Date: circa 1790

Abdication Demanded 2
Angered by Louis attempt to quit the country, the people of Paris at a meeting on the Champ de Mars demand that he abdicate. Lafayette quells the riot with a fusillade. Date: 17 July 1791

Societys 3 Orders
A cleric, a noble and a peasant represent the three strata of French society before the Revolution. Sadly, mutual hugging will soon change to lethal recrimination Date: eighteenth century

A Vende

1830 Revolution Belgium
REBELLION : an artillery company mass with their weaponry at the St Josse Ten Noode Cemetery, Faubourg, Brussells during the struggle for Belgian independence. Date: 23 - 26 September 1830

Matthew Campbell Browne
Citizen MATTHEW CAMPBELL BROWNE sympathiser with the French Revolution, delegate from the Sheffield & Leeds constituency to the British Convention. Date: CIRCA 1794

Abbeydale Factory
The original stone buildings of the Abbeydale factory, Derbyshire, England. Date: late 1960s

Elias Boudinot
ELIAS BOUDINOT American statesman, involved in the Revolution, later director of the U.S. mint. Date: 1740 - 1821

British blue jackets protecting British concession at Hankow
British blue jackets poses against a wall of sandbags in front of the British concession at Hancow, China during the Chinese rebellion of 1911. Date: 1911

The Washington Elm, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Under this tree George Washington first took command of the American Army on 31st July 1775 during the American Revolution - The Washington Tree, Cambridge Common, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Soviet Russian political cartoon
A Soviet Russian political cartoon containing a satirical image of the late Tsar Nicholas II (top right) and the anti-Bolshevik general Pyotr Wrangel (middle right)

Dr. W. A. Thatchell pictured with blind Chinese boys, Chinese Revolution
Dr. W. A. Thatchell pictured with two nurses, all from the Wesleyan Mens Hospital in Hankow, who rescued wounded and blinded inmates from the hospital under fire from insurgents during the Chinese

The great railway revolution
Scenes and incidents showing the conflict waged in the southwest between the forces of honest industry and the agents of the arch-tyrant Jay Gould. Date: 1886

Revolution of Theriso - The insurgents at Malaxa
In 1898, the Great Powers declared Crete as an independent Cretan State, under the rule of the Sultan. Yet, the administration of commander Prince George irritated the Cretans

Brigadier General John Pershing in Mexico
Brigadier General John Joseph " Black Jack" Pershing (1860-1948), American army officer who led the American Expeditionary Forces during the first World War

Prince G E Lvov, Russian Prime Minister
Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov (1861-1925), first post-imperial Prime Minister of Russia, for a few months in 1917. Date: circa 1917

Captain Douglas Macarthur, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Captain Douglas Macarthur (1880-1964), American army officer, seen here at San Antonio, Texas, USA, during border fighting (Mexican Revolution)

Special artists working for The Illustrated London News
Portraits of Melton Prior and H.C. Seppings appear in the Illustrated London News with their sketches in the background; the title reads, Our Special Artists in Africa

Mexican Revolution - Constitutionalist Revolt
Constitutionalist Revolt - 18th July 1914 - Constitutional Troops enter Guadalajara. The Fall of the Huerta Dictatorship. Date: 1914

French Revolution 1791
The Affaire des Poignards ( Affair of the daggers ) - royalist Chevaliers du Poignard attempt a coup at the Palais des Tuileries but are foiled by Lafayette. Date: 28 February 1791

Riot at Vincennes
An attack on the royal chateau of Vincennes, south-east of Paris, could have led to another Bastille event but for the intervention of Lafayette and his guards. Date: 18 February 1791

Gardes Flags Blessed
The banners of the Garde Nationale of Paris, who support the revolutionaries, are solemnly blessed in the cathedral of Notre Dame Date: 27 September 1789

William III Lands in Uk
William III lands on the South coast of England, near Brixham before heading to Exeter Date: 1688

Paris / Notre Dame 1789
View of the interior in the year the French Revolution began Date: 1789

Ww1 Cartoon / Red Russia
Britain tells Russia that the Revolution means that their alliance is over. Date: 1917

F a Boissy D anglas - 3
FRANCOIS-ANTOINE, comte de BOISSY D ANGLAS French statesman in later life, after surviving the Revolution. with his autograph Date: 1756 - 1826

F a Boissy D anglas - 2
FRANCOIS-ANTOINE, comte de BOISSY D ANGLAS As a young man at the time of the Revolution, when he is one of those who will overthrow Robespierre. Date: 1756 - 1826

Charles Bois-Hardy
CHARLES BOIS-HARDY French naval officer who resigned when the Revolution came, took part in royalist counter-plots and was shot in an attack on his home. Date: ? - 1795

Girandins Arrested 1793
The Girandins taken to the guillotine. Date: 31 May 1793

James II Flees to France, where he is Received by Louis XIV December 1688

William III Arrives
William III Reaches London 19 December 1688

An Incroyable
A fancy dress costume from 1884, suggesting an Incroyable from 1798. She wears a short red, white and blue skirt, blue satin coat with tails and revers at throat; the lappet

Women on the barricade, Paris 1848
Women on the barricade near the Porte St Denis, during the Paris unrest of June 1848. A banner reads " Du pain ou la mort" - " Bread or Death"

Vera Cruz harbour, to which hastened the United States battleships, Vermont, Georgia, and Nebraska, in order to protect the American lives, interests and property endangered by the revolution

Mansudae Grand Monument, Pyongyang, North Korea
Depiction of revolutionary peasants and workers, part of the Mansudae Grand Monument, located at Mansu Hill, Pyongyang, capital of North Korea

National Museum, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
Front view of the National Museum of the Great Revolution in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China

Moving the Mexican Army during the time of the Mexican Revolution

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