Rampart Collection (#44)

CIVIL WAR: BLOCKADE, 1863. The breaking of the Federal blockade of Galveston, Texas, on 1 January 1863, by two cotton-wadded Confederate steamers. Wood engraving from a contempoary Northern newspaper

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Confederate fortifications at Petersburg, Virginia, with chevaux-de-frise beyond, during the American Civil War, 1865

CIVIL WAR: TORPEDO BOAT. During the Union blockade of Charleston Harbor in the American Civil War, the Segar Steamer, a Confederate torpedo boat, appoaches a Union ironclad

CONFEDERATE FORT. Rebel works in Atlanta, Georgia. Photographed by George N. Barnard, 1863 or 1864

NEW YORK: DRAFT RIOTS. Conflict between the military and an angry mob on First Avenue during the New York City Draft Riots of 13-16 July 1863. Contemporary wood engraving

CIVIL WAR: SOUTH CAROLINA. View of the southern coast from Savannah, Georgia, to Beaufort, South Carolina, showing the position of the Union fleet

CIVIL WAR: FORT WAGNER. Assault by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on Fort Wagner, Charleston, South Carolina, 18 July 1863. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

CIVIL WAR: FORT WOODBURY. Union Army soldiers protecting Washington, D. C
CIVIL WAR: FORT WOODBURY. Union Army soldiers protecting Washington, D.C. from Confederate attack at Fort Woodbury in Arlington, Virginia. Photograph, c1863

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Cheval de frise at the Confederate Fort Mahone defenses at Siege of Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, 1865

CIVIL WAR: BLOCKADE, 1864. Scene on board the Confederate blockade runner Lilian off the coast of North Carolina. Wood engraving from an English newspaper of 1864

CIVIL WAR: BLOCKADE, 1863. Attack on the blockading squadron off Charleston, South Carolina, by Confederate ironclad boats, April 1863: contemporary wood engraving

CIVIL WAR: BLOCKADE, 1864. A Union monitor shelling a Confederate blockade runner in Charleston harbor, South Carolina. Line engraving, 1864

GREAT RAILROAD STRIKE, 1877. Blockade of engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, 16 July 1877, at the start of the Great Railroad Strike. Contemporary American wood engraving

AUSTRIA: VIENNA, c1730. Walking on the ramparts surrounding the city. Line engraving from a work by Salomon Kleiner, 1724-1737, describing Vienna

VIENNA, 18th CENTURY. Vienna, behind ramparts, seen from Leopoldstadt, the suburb on an island in the Danube. Line engraving, Austrian, mid-18th century

FRANCE: REVOLUTION, 1848. Barricade at the corner of the Boulevard Rue Mazagran, near Porte Saint-Denis in Paris, during the Revolution of 1848 following the closing of the national workshops

PERU: ARICA, 1880. Raising the blockade on Arica, Peru, during the War of the Pacific, 17 March 1880. Wood engraving, 1880

CHINCHA ISLAND WAR, 1866. A Spanish navy squadron blockading the port of Valparaiso, Chile during the Guano War. Wood engraving, English, 1866

FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1791. Passing through an opened barrier, May 1791. French line engraving by Jean-Louis Prieur, early 19th century

VIRGINIA: INDIAN ATTACK. Virginia settlers defending themselves against an Indian attack in the 17th century. Line engraving, 19th century, after Felix O.C. Darley

NEW YORK HARBOR: ICE, 1881. The Ice-Blockade in the Rivers and Bay. Wood engraving, American, 1881

CHARLESTON BLOCKADE, 1863. Birds eye view of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, during he Union blockade in the American Civil War. Line engraving from an American newspaper of August 1863

PARIS COMMUNE, 1871. French government troops fire on barricades set up by the Communards near the Pantheon in Paris, France. Wood engraving from an English newspaper of 10 June 1871

PERU: BLOCKADE, 1880. The blockade of Callao, Peru, by the Chilean navy in 1880 during the War of the Pacific. Contemporary wood engraving

PARIS COMMUNE, 1871. A la Mort! Communards fighting in the streets during the Paris Commune of 1871. Wood engraving from an English newspaper of June 1871

PARIS COMMUNE, 1871. Constructing a barricade. Wood engraving from a contemporary French newspaper

FRANCE: REVOLUTION OF 1848. Barricade in the Rue St. Martin. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

NEW YORK GANG WAR, 1857. View from the Dead Rabbit barricade in Bayard Street as the Rabbits battled the Bowery Boys on 4 July 1857 in New Yorks Sixth Ward

PARIS: REVOLUTION OF 1830. Following their successful overthrow of King Charles X, revolutionaries in Paris, France, dismantle a barricade to make way for the Duke of Orl

FRANCE: REVOLUTION OF 1848. Sketches from the barricades. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

FRANCE: REVOLUTION OF 1848. Behind the barricade. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

STREET RAILWAY, 1871. Congestion of street railway traffic in the Bowery between Spring and Chatham Streets, New York City

PARIS REVOLUTION, 1848. Defenders of a barricade in a Paris street during the Revolution of 1848: wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

PARIS COMMUNE, 1871. The civil war in France. Advanced battery at Neuilly. Engraving, 19th century

FRANCE: REVOLUTION OF 1848. Defenders of the barricade. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

PARIS COMMUNE, 1871. Barricades in front of the Hotel de Ville. Wood engraving from an English newspaper of 8 April 1871

FRANCE: REVOLUTION OF 1848. Fighting at the barricades in Paris. Wood engraving, English, 19th century

PARIS COMMUNE, 1871. Barricades in front of the Hotel de Ville during the Paris Commune of 1871: wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

UTES: WHITE RIVER ATTACK. Ute Native Americans besieging a cavalry detachment near the White River Agency, Colorado, on 29 September 1879. Wood engraving from a contemporary American newspaper

FRANCE: REVOLUTION, 1848. Barricade on the Boulevard Montmarte in Paris at the outbreak of the Revolution of 1848. Contemporary colored engraving

POSADA: ATTACK, 1910-12. Attack on Mexico City. Zinc engraving, 1910-12, by Jos

GERMANY: 1848 REVOLUTION. Troops storming a barricade in the Donesgasse in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sept. 18, 1848: contemporary German colored engraving

FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1848. Behind a street barricade in Paris during the Revolution of 1848. Color engraving

GERMANY: REVOLUTION, 1848. Barricade in the Burggasse at Altenburg, Thuringia, in 1848. Wood engraving from a contemporary German newspaper

GERMANY: REVOLUTION, 1848. Storming a barricade in the Dongesgasse at Frankfurt, Germany during the Revolution of 1848, 18 September 1848. Wood engraving from a contemporary German newspaper

INDIA: SEPOY REBELLION, 1857. Attack of the Mutineers on the Redan Battery at Lucknow. Steel engraving, English, 1859

IRISH LAND LEAGUE, 1887. The Rent War in Ireland: Priest Chained to Gate to Prevent Entrance of Evicting Party. Members of the Irish Land League trying to prevent an eviction

Obidos castle, today used as a luxury Pousada hotel, partially illuminated at night, Obidos, Estremadura, Portugal, Europe

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