Weapon Collection (page 3)

Chuqui open-pit copper mine, 4km long, 720m d eep, trucks each carrying 300t of ore, Chuquicamata, Calama, Chile, South America

Death of Sir Henry de Bohun, killed by Robert Bruces axe at the Battle of Bannockburn, 23-24 June 1314, part of the First War of Scottish Independence. Date: 1314

Japanese samurai. Date: circa 1890s

Valley Forge campfire, Revolutionary War
Dispirited American soldiers huddle around a campfire at Valley Forge. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Coat of Arms of Austria, 1898. Showing a doble headed imperial eagle hold a sword and orb

William the Conqueror
King of England William I, the Conqueror, carrying a sword. Hand-colored engraving of a portrait

Scottish cavalry, Battle of Newburn Ford IC070_001
Reconstruction drawing by Peter Dunn depicting Scottish cavalry soldiers charging through the English sconce (a type of earthwork fortification) during the Battle of Newburn Ford in 1640

Scene from Song of Roland
Roland blowing his warhorn in battle against the Saracens at Roncesvalle, 789 AD. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

B. S. A. Military Pattern Air Rifles
B.S.A. Military Pattern Air Rifles, The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited Date: circa 1910

B. S. A. Air Rifles, Birmingham Small Arms Company
B.S.A. Air Rifles, The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited Date: circa 1910

Colt Guns and Rifles - breech-loading arms. circa late 19th century

The Parley, 1903, by Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
Frederic Remington (1861-1909). American painter. The Parley, 1903

Knight of the mid 15th century in battle armor with weapons.. He wears a checkered tunic over stocking, with two angels above holding his coat of arms. The weapons include a war hammer A and sword E

Ubiquitous bulldozer by G. H. Davis
The ubiquitous bulldozer: a mechanical tool of peace becomes an important weapon during the Second World War. Date: 1944

German Tiger tank by G. H. Davis
The fangs of the Tiger revealed: another German super-weapon whose invincibility has been disproved. Details of the German Mark VI tank, a 56-ton monster whose 88mm gun fires a three foot long shell

Battle of Blore Heath IC012_002
Reconstruction drawing by Peter Dunn showing the final disasterous charge of the Lancastrian forces against the Yorkists during the Battle of Blore Heath, Staffordshire, 23rd September 1459

Diemaco C8 carbine

Special operations forces soldier equipped with night vision and an HK416 assault rifle

Confederate Army Colonel John S. Mosby during the American Civil War

Battle of Hastings J000016
BATTLE ABBEY, East Sussex. Battle of Hastings reconstruction drawing by Peter Dunn. Armies re-group on hillock. Normans take food and water horses

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

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

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

Poster, Back the Great Attack with War Savings, showing WW2 soldiers running across a beach. 1940s

NATI2A-00113
Wampanoag warrior in full costume, Massachusetts. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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

German flamethrower WWI
German flamethower in action on the Western Front during World War I

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

England; A fine side-by-side 12 bore shotgun made by premier English gunsmiths James Purdey and Sons

Pistol J970130
DOWN HOUSE, Kent. Double-barrelled pistol. Taken on the Beagle voyage

Henry VIII horse armoury DD97_00337
TOWER OF LONDON, Stepney, London. An interior view of the Horse Armoury from the east. There has always been an armoury at the Tower but this collection dates from the reign of Henry VIII

Deal Castle K971004
DEAL CASTLE, Kent. Cannon on the outer bastions with the keep beyond

Pendennis Castle K021944
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Falmouth, Cornwall. View of the Keep & Governors block from north east with mounted gun in the foreground

Iron Age tribesmen J870382
MAIDEN CASTLE, Dorset. Reconstruction drawing by Paul Birkbeck of Iron Age warriors armed with slings

Sea Wolf Missile Firing
A Sea Wolf surface to air missile leaves the launcher onboard Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose during an exercise. Seawolf is the shield of Britains frigate fleet against air attack

Challenger II Tank on Exercise Med Man
Exercise Med Man, Batus training area, Canada. 2 RTR with Challenger 2

Three American soldiers, Camp Dodge, Iowa, WW1
Three American soldiers (known as Doughboys) at Camp Dodge, Iowa, USA, during the First World War, with 1917 Enfield rifles

RAFs new gyro gun sight by G. H. Davis
Details of the RAFs new gyro gun sight, which makes every fighter pilot an accurate marksman. By means of two simple adjustments in action

Robert the Bruce at the altar of enemy

Illustration Of Black Union Regiment, Civil War, 1860s
Recruitment illustration of a Black Union regiment of soldiers and their White commanding officer, labeled Come and join us, brothers, 1860s. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Illustration, Aztec apprentice warrior clad in loincloth carrying a spear-thrower (Atlatl) and oak darts with a stone point

Rooftop Rifle Range
18th June 1940: London workers at lunchtime target practice on the roof of their office building. (Photo by Gerry Cranham/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

FAMAS 5. 56mm assault rifle
FAMAS 5.56mm assault rifle. The FAMAS is the service rifle of the French military

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