Victorious Gallery

A Jaipur Allegory

Look Out, The Elephant's Coming! An artist's impression of the dominant Jaipur Polo team. Having won the Indian Polo Association Championship in December 1932, the team were victorious in six consecutive tournaments, including the Hurlingham Championship in England. From left, the Jaipur team shown are Raj Kumar Prithi Singh, Rao Rajah Abhai Singh, Rao Rajah Hanut Singh and H.H. The Maharajah of Jaipur. Other figures included in the illustration are, from left, Captain Pat Roark, Colonel Vivian Lockett (the umpire), Captain Maurice Kingscote and Mr H.P.Guinness

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

WW2 - Liberation of Paris. Victorious American soldiers

World War II. The liberation of Paris. Victorious American soldiers marching down the Champs Elysees with the Arc de Triomphe behind them on August 26, 1944. The parade marked the end of Operation Overload, the military code name for the Allied D-Day inv Date: 1944

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Fight between officers in the Ward Room, HMS Victory

Lt. Newcome attacking Captain Clackit with a chair while other officers in nightgowns emerge from their cabins, HMS Victory. Clackit had stabbed Newcome with his sword. The officers ward room decorated with pistols, anchors, flags, swords, spyglasses and a barrel of grog. The Ward Room. Newcome and Capt. Clackit. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Charles Williams from John Mitford's Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy, London, 1819

© Florilegius