Swords Collection (page 8)

Serbian Infantry in Budapest
Serbian Infantry Regiment at the Station in Budapest, Hungary in August 1914

Swordplay display
Swordplay organised by the famous Abouel-Seyfine and Tcherkes Ryza-Bey

Marines of the Turkish Navy
Imperial Turkish Marines of the Turkish Navy

Militaria - on blue cloth
An assemblage of British Militaria, including swords, hats, a belt, plumes, crests, chainmail, colours, epaulettes, a bearskin and a cutlass. Photograph by Malcolm Greensmith

Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) - Cavalry Charge
Daring cavalry charge at Bengazi. The Italo Turkish War was launched by Italy against Turkey, with the aim of gaining Libya, in order to counterbalance French conquests in North Africa

Bisharin Men dancing
The Bisharin are a Sunni Muslim tribe of the Beja nomadic ethnic group in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan - close to Aswan

Swords of Napoleon and Wellington, Apsley House, 19th centur
Photograph showing the swords of Napoleon and the 1st Duke of Wellington on display in Apsley House, London, 19th century

Turkish Student Club - German University
A Turkish Student Club at a German University. A very unusual postcard that such an occurance as this should have been recorded at all!

Japanese Official Delegation in Constantinople
Japanese Official Delegation visits Constantinople, Turkey

Chinese Soldiers advancing
A unit of Chinese soldiers, with swords and shields, advancing, 1876

Chinese Soldiers rolling forward
A unit of Chinese soldiers, armed with swords and shields, performing a forward roll

Gun Drill on board a British battleship, c. 1896
Illustration showing a typical scene on board a British battleship as the gun crew of Royal Navy seamen hoist a cartridge towards the breech of their gun

Franco-Prussian War. Bavarian Light dragoons Passing the Hea
German cavalry on hoseback, flourishing their swords and celebrating Prussian success aginst the French

The Coorg Harvest Festival, Madras, 1852
Engraving showing the Coorg Harvest Festival held in Madras, India, 1852. This festival was an annual event held just prior to the farmers gathering the harvest

Consecrating Swords
Consecration of swords among the ancient Celts

Anglo-Saxon Soldiers
Saxon soldiers with spears, broad swords and shields

Victory Parade / Koniev
A victory parade led by Marshall Koniev

Burns / Bannockburn March
ROBERT BRUCEs MARCH TO BANNOCKBURN Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled.Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe!

ROB ROY
Rob Roy and his men draw their swords and ambush the invading English troops

French Sabre Practice
French cavalrymen practice using their sabres

French Sabre Practice 2
French cavalrymen practice using their sabres while mounted

Djighitoffka Cossacks
DJIGHITOFFKA COSSACKS They ride standing upright on horseback. They wear long red coats and tall fur hats and are armed with whips, knives and swords

Alfred Dreyfus / Anon Phot
ALFRED DREYFUS French army officer awarded the Legion d honneur

Richard II & Appeal
Richard II and the Appeal of Treason

Henry I Demands Treasury
Henry I demands the royal treasury and castle on his accession

Arrest of Princip
Arrest of Gavrilo Princip, the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo

Swords & Daggers / Racinet
Swords and daggers, mostly of Indian orgin, some of Persian and Turkish

Swords & Daggers 1851
Swords, daggers etc. in Trophy of Arms, India

Columbus Lands 1492
Columbus and his men wave their swords and flags in the air, watched by the passive natives of Guanahani (Bahamas), also known as Watling Island

Ottokar II in Prussia
Ottokar II of Bohemia invades Prussia

Monks Expelled / 1207
Monks at Christchurch expelled

Battle of Abu Klea
A melee during the battle of Abu Klea

Meyerbeer / Huguenots / Lib4
Act 4 scene 5 - priests bless the swords of the Catholics who are about to slaughter the Huguenots in the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew

Camel Corps Review / Cairo
Review of Egyptian Camel Corps at Cairo

12th C Toy Soldiers
Playing with toy soldiers equipped with swords and shields in the middle ages

East Indian Court / 1851
The East Indian Court - south side

War Dance / Delhi / 1875
Walpurgis Night Delhi - a war dance. Men dance around a fire to the beat of drum

Verdi / Trovatore / I. 3
IL TROVATORE Act 1, Scene 3 Leonora caught between two suitors - Manrico, whom she loves, and the Count di Luna, whom she definitely doesn t

Cossack Stands on Horse
Djighitoffka Cossacks: They ride standing upright on horseback. They wear long red coats and tall fur hats and are armed with whips, knives and swords

Children Marching 19C
Five children marching with swords and sticks

Horse / Checking Mouth
A man checks a horses teeth before deciding whether to buy it

A French Master
A French Lodge admits a Master who lies on the ground with a blood-soaked cloth over his face, while the existing Masters point their swords at his body, very symbolically

Le Morte D arthur
Knights in battle on foot and horseback watched by a king and queen from the battlements of a city

The Iron Stove
The princess rides on a plough wheel over the three swords which are being wielded through holes in the ground. (Grimm story)

Running the Gauntlet
Newly-wed couple run the gauntlet of guardsmen saluting with symbolically raised, unsheathed swords

Scott / Rob Roy Intervenes
Rob Roy intervenes between Rashleigh and Francis Osbaldstone

Fielding / Tom Jones / Fight
Tom is attacked in the street by Lord Fellamars gang

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