Military Collection (page 6)

Battle of Hastings J000015
BATTLE ABBEY, East Sussex. Battle of Hastings reconstruction drawing by Peter Dunn. Waves of Norman cavalry and infantry smash into the shield wall

Battle of Hastings J000014
BATTLE ABBEY, East Sussex. Battle of Hastings reconstruction drawing by Peter Dunn. The Normans counter attack English Fyrdmen cut off on hillock

Battle of Hastings J000013
BATTLE ABBEY, East Sussex. Battle of Hastings reconstruction drawing by Peter Dunn. The Normans feigned flight pursued by the English

Battle of Hastings J000011
BATTLE ABBEY, East Sussex. Battle of Hastings reconstruction drawing by Peter Dunn showing the Normans charge through to Harold and his personal troops

Naval Review
July 1907: Battleships lined up in the Solent, for the Kings Naval Review of the British Fleet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

HMS Dreadnought
1909: British warship HMS Dreadnought. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Three Samurai
Three samurai warriors in armour, circa 1880. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Chelsea Barracks a60_01116
Chelsea Barracks, Chelsea Bridge Road, London. The barracks of 1861-63 from the south, photographed by Herbert Felton in 1960

On patrol IC048 / 027
Hadrians Wall. Reconstruction line drawing of Roman soldiers mounted on horseback. Location based on Grindon Milecastle. Attributed to Philip Corke. c.1985 - c.2000. hadrian

British Army Airspeed Horsa Glider Force
circa 1944: Four British Army Airspeed Horsa gliders with their tails detached for unloading and a Waco Hadrian glider all safely landed in a field

Come Lad, Slip Across and Help, recruiting poster from World War I, pub. by The
" Come Lad, Slip Across and Help", recruiting poster from World War I, pub. by The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London, 1915 (colour litho)

Anzac Cove
Allied troops at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Peninsula, during the Gallipoli campaign. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Midhurst Grammar School Cadets - July 1939
Line up of Cadets and Staff outside the School buildings. George Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref. No. Garland N18440

Hornchurch, 1915 BB88_07119
HORNCHURCH, Havering, London. The 1st Sportsmens Battalion of the 23rd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, possibly marching to war. Photographed in 1915. Howarth-Loomes Collection

Ross Arctic search expedition, 1848-9 C016 / 4490
Ross Arctic search expedition. 19th-century artwork of the ships HMS Enterprise and HMS Investigator caught in pack ice in Baffin Bay off Devils Point in the Arctic

Chesters Roman Fort J900485
HADRIANs WALL: CHESTERS ROMAN FORT, Northumberland. Reconstruction drawing of aerial view of fort by Alan Sorrell

Ottoman Empire defeated in Vienna, 1683
King John III Sobieski leads Polish forces repulsing the Ottoman Turks from Vienna, 1683. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

EVCW2A-00122
Confederate General Thomas " Stonewall" Jackson mortally wounded by his own men at the Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Union gunboats sunk in Galveston Bay, 1863
Rebel attack on Union gunboats at Galveston, Texas, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Confederate soldiers in action, Battle of Chickamauga
Braggs Confederates firing from the woods at Chickamauga, Georgia, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

EVCW2A-00027
Confederate Louisiana brigade throwing stones at advancing Federal Army of the Potomac at the second Battle of Bull Run 1862, US Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Cornfield at the Battle of Antietam, Civil War
Union troops charging through the cornfield at Antietam, 1862. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Picketts Charge, Battle of Gettysburg
Confederates charge the Union lines at Gettysburg, 1863. Printed color lithograph

Confederates holding ground in a Civil War battle
Confederate soldiers on the line of battle with fate against them. Hand-colored engraving from a painting by Gilbert Gaul

Norman Invasion of England, 1066
Taillefer rousing the French army by singing the Song of Roland at the Battle of Hastings, 1066. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

EVRV2A-00163
William Prescott in command of American Minutemen defending Bunker Hill, 1775. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century F.C. Yohn illustration

British evacuation of Charleston SC, 1782
Charleston, South Carolina, abandoned by the British near the end of the Revolutionary War. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Captain Melvill N090668
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Falmouth, Cornwall. " Captain Melvill" by unknown artist

Dawe - General da Alava N070455
APSLEY HOUSE, London. " General Miguel Ricardo da Alava" (1771-1843) 1818 by George DAWE (1781-1829). WM 1477-1948

Knight - General Sir George Murray N070508
APSLEY HOUSE, London. " General Sir George Murray" c.1840s (1772-1846) by John Prescott KNIGHT (1803-1881). WM 1538-1948

Prussian soldiers J840001
Engraving of Prussian Napoleonic soldiers produced in Berlin. Foot Artillery drivers (" 2te Artillerie Brigade" ) and a Jager (light infantry " 2te Jager Abtheilung")

Volunteers of London 1798 N110038
MAYSON BEETON COLLECTION. Loyal Volunteers of London 1798. A volume showing the uniforms of the London militias. This plate shows the uniform of the London and Westminster Dismounted Light Horse

Ice pail depicting a Highlander with Spanish militia N081111
APSLEY HOUSE, London. Ice pail from the Duke of Wellingtons Prussian Service, made in Berlin 1817-19. This was a gift to the Duke from the King of Prussia

Pieneman - General Lord Edward Somerset N070462
APSLEY HOUSE, London. General Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset (1776-1842) sketched by Jan Willem PIENEMAN in 1821 (WM 1484-1948)

Pieneman - Major General John Freemantle N070461
APSLEY HOUSE, London. Major General John Freemantle (1790-1864) sketched by Jan Willem PIENEMAN in 1821 (WM 1483-1948). In 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo Lieutenant-Colonel Freemantle was

Pieneman - Field Marshal Henry William Paget N070459
APSLEY HOUSE, London. Field Marshal Henry William Paget 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854) sketched by Jan Willem PIENEMAN in 1821 (WM 1481-1948)

Pieneman - General Sir Colin Halkett N070448
APSLEY HOUSE, London. General Sir Colin Halkett (1774-1856) sketch by Jan Willem PIENEMAN in 1821 (WM 1470-1948). In 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo Major-General Halkett commanded 5th Brigade in

Honourable surrender at Pendennis Castle N900005
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. 17th August 1646. Honourable surrender of Royalist troops. Civil War reconstruction drawing by Ivan Lapper

Gunner, Royal Artillery N100004
Tresco, Isles of Scilly. Reconstruction drawing by Nick Hardcastle of a Napoleonic ordinary gunner from a Royal Artillery Invalid regiment c.1803-15

Scottish soldier, Battle of Flodden Field J970047
BATTLE OF FLODDEN FIELD, Northumberland. Reconstruction drawing of a Scottish soldier, with pike, wearing armour at the Battle of Flodden, 1513 by Ivan Lapper

English soldier, Battle of Flodden Field J970046
BATTLE OF FLODDEN FIELD, Northumberland. Reconstruction drawing of a English soldier, with poleaxe and sword, wearing armour at the Battle of Flodden, 1513 by Ivan Lapper

Pieneman - General Miguel Ricardo de Alava y Esquivel N070688
APSLEY HOUSE, London. " General Miguel Ricardo de Alava y Esquivel" sketched by Jan Willem PIENEMAN (1779-1843) in 1821. WM 1527-1948

Boyd Houghton - Recruits K030525
KENWOOD HOUSE, London. " Recruits" By Arthur BOYD HOUGHTON (1836-1875)

Dover Castle Wartime Tunnels J920840
DOVER CASTLE, Kent. Hellfire Corner. View of the Second World War Anti-Aircraft Operations Room in the Secret Wartime Tunnels

Dover Castle Wartime Tunnels J010002
DOVER CASTLE, Kent. Hellfire Corner. View of the Second World War Anti-Aircraft Control Room in the Secret Wartime Tunnels

Lodge Hill Battery N060478
LODGE HILL BATTERY, Chatham, Kent. Reconstruction drawing of the First World War a battery firing at German zeppelin, by Peter Dunn (English Heritage Graphics Team)

Fort Cumberland N070043
FORT CUMBERLAND, Eastney, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Aerial view

Roman soldier M852256
HADRIANs WALL, Northumberland. Roman soldier in silhouette with spear and shield. Ermine Street Guard re-enactor. hadrian

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