Sieges Collection

Siege of Malta 1565
Jean de la Valette defends the island against the Turks

Ivanhoe
Promotional postcard for Ivanhoe Presented and produced by Walter and Frederick Melville (programme) They also credit themselves with a share of the production

Military Siege India 17C
Indian General receives the key of a besieged town as a token of surrender

Weaponry, Middle Ages. Bombard. Engraving by Serra
Bombard. Cannon used throughout the Middle Ages an the Early Modern Period. Engraving by Serra. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

Siege of Porto Bello
The Spanish governor of Porto Bello, Panama, dies heroically, trying to defend the town against Morgan's buccaneers Date: 1668

Machines used in ancient sieges. Vinea 1, pluteus 2, moveable towers 3, 4, and different modes of defending castle walls from a battering ram

French Military Personnel 1871
Portraits of military personnel including: a veteran, a mastermind, a doctor, a stretcher bearer, an officer of state, a home guard, a drummer, a captain in the home guard, a foot soldier

ROMANS BESIEGE JERUSALEM
The Romans besiege Jerusalem Date: 70

ROMAN SIEGE THREAT
Roman troops threaten to use their battering ram against a Parthian town : the residents come out to parley with the besiegers Date: circa 200

Spain. Burgo de Osma. Osma Castle. Ruins
Spain. Burgo de Osma. Osma Castle, built in 912. Ruins

Charles De LA Meilleraye
CHARLES DE LA PORTE, duc de LA MEILLERAY French marshal, one of the outstanding soldiers of his day, renowned for skill in sieges Date: 1662 - 1694

Roman Siege Tactics
Roman troops attack a Parthian town using a BATTERING RAM - note that it did in fact have a rams head carved at the business end Date: circa 200

Siege weapon, a Roman movable tower
A siege weapon, a Roman movable tower, utilised in one of the many sieges of Namur, Belgium, between the 15th and 19th centuries. Date: circa 50 AD

Italy Pavia
Pavia, on the Ticino, in the seventeenth century : the fortifications were much needed during the periodic battles and sieges. Date: 17th century

Spain. Peninsular War (1808-1814). Sieges of Saragossa (1808-1809). The local hero Jos頤 e la Hera. Litography. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Wilkie, Sir David (1785-1841). The Maid of Saragossa. 1827. Peninsular War. Scene of the sieges of Saragossa with Agustina de Arag󮮠 Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Zaragoza

Portrait of 1863 of the veteran survivors fo the sieges of Girona during the Peninsular War (1809). Oil on canvas

Spain (1809). Peninsular War. Santiago Sas, clergyman, heroe during the Sieges of Saragossa. Litography. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Spain (1808-1814). Peninsular War. Sieges of Saragossa. Spanish woman shooting a French soldier. Etching. SPAIN. Zaragoza. Diputaci󮠐 rovincial Library

QUEROL Y SUBIRATS, Agust�(1860-1909). Monument
QUEROL Y SUBIRATS, Agust� (1860-1909). Monument to the Sieges. 1908. SPAIN. ARAGON. ZARAGOZA. Zaragoza. Lower detail with a fight scene of the Peninsular War. Relief

Newark Castle, Notts. dating from the 12th century, in which King John is reputed to have died in 1216. Withstood 3 sieges in the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Date: 12th century

Turkey Kars
Distant view of the town, whose history is a series of sieges and changes of rulers through the centuries

Military / Scenes / Sieges
Soldiers defending at a castle turret during a siege

Collecting Rainwater
Many a siege has been won when the defenders run short of water : ths castle is taking every chance to gather rain water to augment its supply

Siege (Olaus Magnus)
A well-protected town, skirted with multiple rows of chain-linked defences and spikes to prevent a frontal attack by cavalry

Roman Testudo / Sieges
The TESTUDO (tortoise), a Roman siege technique using overlapping shields, giving protection from arrows and boiling oil, and serving as a platform to raise attackers

Siege of a Castle
The siege of a town, with guns blazing and bowmen shooting their arrows

Stone from a Siege
Abraham de Favert, engineer with the French army, brings back to his commander a chunk of the walls of Landrecie as proof that he has succeeded in breaching them

Siege of Tyre
The siege of Tyre (supposedly in Biblical times, but depicting 10th century troops and weapons)

Siege of Dieppe
The French take the bastille built by the English before the port of Dieppe - one step in the expulsion of the English from mainland Europe

Panama sacked by Henry Morgan
Panama is sacked by Henry Morgan

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