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Battle during the First Crusade (The Peoples Crusade) 1096-1099. Mounted knights are unhorsed and killed, foreground. In centre is a melee of hand-to-hand fighting with, on left

Roman soldiers operating a Catapult, a siege engine used for hurling missiles, such as stones at bottom left, at the enemy. In top half of image are details of the construction of the weapon

Hupa man with spear, standing on rock midstream, in background, fog partially obscures trees on mountainsides, 1923. Photograph by Edward Curtis (1868-1952)

Native American Indian man in feather headdress, on horseback, holding bow and arrows, 1 arrow in his mouth, 1908. Photograph by Edward Curtis (1868-1952)

Porte plume Ideal Waterman l arme de la paix. A woman holding a giant fountain pen. (poster), lithograph, Paris Signed: Oge. 1896

US Nuclear device (bomb) test Priscilla 24 June 1957. Test Height and Type: 700 Foot Balloon with a yield of Yield: 37 kt. Weapon Explosion

World War II 1939-1945: US Army soldiers in leopard-spotted camouflage suits with net veiling over helmets and faces, 1942. Pattern Disruption Weapon Rifle

World War II 1939-1945. Barrel of a large gun with German soldier at fortifications, 1943. Weapon Armament Heavy Artillery Guard Rifle

Samurai warriors Genkuro Yoshitsune and Musashibo Benkei in full armour: Print c1810. Utagawa Toyokuni III (1786-1865) also called Utagawa Kunisada. Weapon Lance Pike Arrow Sword

Samurai warriors Ichijo-Jiro-Tadanori and Notonokami Noritsune fighting. Print c1820. Shuntei Katsukawa (1770-c1833) Japanese artist. Warlike Fierce Threatening Weapon Pike Sword

The Emperor Go-Toba Forging a Sword, c1840. Go-Toba, c1221, in exile on island of Oki studied swords and swordmaking. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) Japanese Ukiyo-e artist

Carry the Ideal Waterman pen, the weapon of peace. Advertisement for Waterman ink pens published in France, 1919

Corporal Paul Wienert and gunners of Battery E 1st Artillery. Seven Lakota native American Indian scouts and uniformed Euro-American soldiers pose with a Hotchkiss field gun. Photograph c1891

Capture of Monterey hand-coloured lithograph after Carl Nebel. Mexican-American War 1846-1848, Battle of Monterrey 21-24 September 1846

Illustration of an ox-powered paddle-wheel boat. Fifteenth century manuscript based on a description in 4th century anonymous Roman military treatise on war machines De Rebus Bellicis

Master gunner firing a cannon. Wodcut from Edward Webbe Travels, 1590

Smith & Wessons revolver factory, Springfield, Illinois, showing the processes of production from the forging of the barrels

Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Battle of Hericourt near Belfort, 16, 17 and 18 January 1871. The French under General Charles Denis Bourbaki (1816-1897) were soundly defeated by the Prussian forces

Making a wooden pattern from which moulds for casting gun barrels could be formed in sand. From De la pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice, 1540)

Two forms auger used by the Romans in siege warfare to drill into the wall of a fortress. From Poliorceticon sive de machinis tormentis telis by Justus Lipsius (Joost Lips) (Antwerp, 1605). Engraving

Roman soldiers attacking the walls of a fortress with scaling ladders, slings and spears, while the defenders are holding them off with nets, hot liquid, spears and various missiles

Roman spearmen attacking the walls of a besieged fortress. From Poliorceticon sive de machinis tormentis telis by Justus Lipsius (Joost Lips) (Antwerp, 1605). Engraving

Ballistics. Gunners calculating the elevation of a piece of artillery using a clinometer and a quadrant marked with shadow scales. From Architechtur.. Mathematischen

Archimedes crow. Archimedes (c287-212 BC) Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor is said to have invented the device for use during the defence of Syracuse against the Romans (212 BC)

World War I: Part of the Russian womens battalion in training, 1917. They were captured by the Bolsheviks and killed. Halftone

Gunner Firing on a Tow Target, Flexible Gunnery School, Ft. Myers, Florida
View of soldier in a plane firing at a tow target with a mounted automatic weapon

Students on 30 Cal. M. G. Malifunction Range, Flexible Gunnery School, Ft. Myers, Florida
View shows two soldiers about to fire a monted automatic weapon

The Christian Warfare Postcard. 1908, The Christian Warfare Postcard

Loading a 12 Disappearing Gun Postcard. ca. 1905-1939, Loading a 12 Disappearing Gun Postcard

A Crack 5 Gun Crew Postcard. ca. 1905-1939, A Crack 5 Gun Crew Postcard

Buffalo Bill, Famous Plainsman and Scout Postcard. ca. 1936, Buffalo Bill, Famous Plainsman and Scout Postcard

Gemini Serigraph Postcard. ca. 1900-1920, Gemini Serigraph Postcard

Zapata, Leader of Mexican Revolution of the South Postcard. ca. 1913, Zapata, Leader of Mexican Revolution of the South Postcard

Sagittarius Serigraph Postcard. ca. 1900-1920, Sagittarius Serigraph Postcard

Postcard of Pilgrim Plucking a Turkey. ca. 1910, Thanksgiving Day, Greetings

Hereward the Wake Carreras Cigarette Card. ca. 1929, Hereward the Wake Carreras Cigarette Card

Don Quixote Carreras Cigarette Card. ca. 1929, Don Quixote Carreras Cigarette Card

Peter Pan Carreras Cigarette Card. ca. 1929, Peter Pan Carreras Cigarette Card

Quentin Durward Carreras Cigarette Card. ca. 1929, Quentin Durward Carreras Cigarette Card

Sinbad the Sailor Carreras Cigarette Card. ca. 1929, Sinbad the Sailor Carreras Cigarette Card

Hamlet Carreras Cigarette Card. ca. 1929, Hamlet Carreras Cigarette Card

Robinson Crusoe Carreras Cigarette Card. ca. 1929, Robinson Crusoe Carreras Cigarette Card

Bluebeard Carreras Cigarette Card. ca. 1929, Bluebeard Carreras Cigarette Card

Postcard of Buffalo Bill. ca. 1920, William Buffalo Bill Cody poses in buckskin with a saddle

Arrowhead-Shaped Card for Arrowhead Hot Springs. ca. 1916, An arrowhead-shaped advertisement for Arrowhead Hot Springs, a resort in the mountains of Southern California

Postcard of Soldiers on the Firing Line. ca. 1916, LIFE IN THE U. S. ARMY CANTONMENT. SKIRMISH LINE
Postcard of Soldiers on the Firing Line. ca. 1916, LIFE IN THE U.S. ARMY CANTONMENT. SKIRMISH LINE

Postcard of Army Platoon in Training. ca. 1916, LIFE IN THE U. S. ARMY CANTONMENT. PLATOON ON GUARD
Postcard of Army Platoon in Training. ca. 1916, LIFE IN THE U.S. ARMY CANTONMENT. PLATOON ON GUARD

Postcard of Non-Commissioned Army Officers. ca. 1916, LIFE IN THE U. S. ARMY CANTONMENT
Postcard of Non-Commissioned Army Officers. ca. 1916, LIFE IN THE U.S. ARMY CANTONMENT. A GROUP OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS

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