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Background imageSeizing Collection: Balboa and Pizarro exploring Central and South America

Balboa and Pizarro exploring Central and South America
Vasco Nunez de Balboa reaching the Pacific 19, Francisco Pizarro separating his men by a line in the sand on the Isle of Gallo 20, and Peruvians afraid of a lunar eclipse 21

Background imageSeizing Collection: BRITAIN GRABS GREECE

BRITAIN GRABS GREECE
Britain portrayed as a gorilla, seizing poor innocent Greece Date: 1916

Background imageSeizing Collection: Prince Henry seizing the Royal Treasury

Prince Henry seizing the Royal Treasury
Prince Henry (c1068-1135), brother to King Rufus (who had just been killed in a hunting accident), seizing the Royal Treasury and thereby becoming King Henry I. 1100

Background imageSeizing Collection: Samoa - Hoisting the Union flag - World War One

Samoa - Hoisting the Union flag - World War One
Samoa - Hoisting the Union flag - 30th August, 1914. At the outbreak of World War One, New Zealand troops landed on Upolu unopposed on 29th August 1914 and seized control from the German authorities

Background imageSeizing Collection: Prohibition Raid

Prohibition Raid
Customs officials of the motor boat Marjorie seizing bottles of contraband champagne off Mont Auk Point, Long Island, New York, U.S.A. during the Prohibition. Date: 16 December 1929

Background imageSeizing Collection: Crimean war John Bythsea & William Johnstone

Crimean war John Bythsea & William Johnstone
During the Crimean War, Commander John Bythsea (or Bythesea) and Stoker William Johnstone seize the Russian mail and despatches from five Russian soldiers in order to intercept important messages

Background imageSeizing Collection: Peasants seizing potato crop, Ireland

Peasants seizing potato crop, Ireland
Peasants seize the potato crop of an evicted tenant near Tralee, Kerry, in Ireland. Men, women and children dig for the unharvested potatoes with shovels, spades and their bare hands

Background imageSeizing Collection: Bombed Train

Bombed Train
Polish insurgents raid a mail- train at Rogoff on the Vienna- Warsaw railway, seizing money from the border customs tolls

Background imageSeizing Collection: Church Treasures Seized

Church Treasures Seized
Since atheism is the official creed of the new regime, the Bolsheviks feel justified in seizing the treasures of the Orthodox Church

Background imageSeizing Collection: Dutch in Medway

Dutch in Medway
A Dutch fleet commanded by De Ruyter sails up the Thames, and attacks Chatham, sinking or seizing the London and other warships anchored in the Medway

Background imageSeizing Collection: Ireland / Seizing Fzgerald

Ireland / Seizing Fzgerald
The arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald for high treason

Background imageSeizing Collection: Mistletoe Branch

Mistletoe Branch
SEIZING AN OPPORTUNITY passing under a mistletoe branch while walking in the snow


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