Weapon Collection (page 93)

ARISTOMENES OF MESSENIA (7th century B. C. ). Fighting Spartan warriors
ARISTOMENES OF MESSENIA (7th century B.C.). Fighting Spartan warriors

ALEXANDER THE GREAT in battle against Darius. Persian miniature, 16th century

ARMORER, 18th CENTURY. An armorer and various medieval weapons. Copper engraving, French, 18th century

ROMAN BALLISTA. Roman soldiers with a horse-drawn ballista. Engraving from an 1552 edition of De Rebus Bellicis, originally from the 4th or 5th century

ARCHERS, 15th CENTURY. Archers defending a castle under siege. Illumination from Chroniques d Angleterre, late 15th century

CANNON, 16th CENTURY. Sighting a cannon in the 16th century: contemporary woodcut

LONGBOWMEN, 16th CENTURY. English longbowmen and a halberdier (center). Woodcut, English, 16th century

MONGOLIAN ROCKET BATTERY. 13th century A. D. Drawing
MONGOLIAN ROCKET BATTERY. 13th century A.D. Drawing

STAG HUNTING, 1582. Man hunting stags using a decoy. Woodcut from the Libro de la Monteria, by Gonzalo Argote de Molina, 1582

CONSTELLATION: HERCULES. Personification of Hercules. Woodcut from Gaius Julius Hyginus Poeticon Astronomicon, Venice, Italy, 1482

WORLD WAR I: SPARTACISTS. Followers of Karl Liebknecht carrying machine guns obtained from seized arsenals in Berlin, Germany. Photograph c1919

WORLD WAR I: GALLIPOLI. Turkish artillery in position at Gallipoli during World War I. Photograph, 1915

WORLD WAR I: SERBIA. Six-inch howitzer of the Allied army being used against Bulgarian forces near Lake Doiran in Serbia. Photograph, c1916

WORLD WAR I: SPIKED BOARDS. Allied soldiers posing with spiked boards laid by the Germans along transport roads during World War I. Photograph, 1914-1918

WORLD WAR I: FLAMETHROWER. An Allied soldier with a German flamethrower during World War I. Photograph, 1914-1918

WWI: ARMORED CAR, c1915. Two soldiers in an armored car, possibly in France. Photograph, c1915

WWI: ARMORED CAR, c1915. Armored cars on maneuvers, possibly in France. Photograph, c1915

WWI: ARMORED CAR, c1915. Armored cars on a road, possibly in France. Photograph, c1915

WWI: ARMORED CAR, c1915. An officer, possibly Belgian, with armored cars in the field. Photograph, c1915

WWI: ARMORED CAR, c1915. An armored car. Photograph, c1915

AMERICAN TANK, c1918. Tank used by the U. S. Army during World War I. Photographed c1918
AMERICAN TANK, c1918. Tank used by the U.S. Army during World War I. Photographed c1918

Triumpant St Joan
1429, St Joan of Arc (1412 - 1431), known as the Maid of Orleans makes her triumphal entrance to Orleans. Her inner voices moved her to ask the Dauphin to let her fight the English in 1428

Heroes Of Marathon
Athenian and Plataean warriors defeat vastly superior numbers of Persians at the Battle of Marathon, in 490 BC. A painting by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Castillo de San Gabriel fortress, guns, Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, Atlantic, Europe

BOOMERANG. Line drawing

RICHARD DE BEAUCHAMP (1382-1439). 13th Earl of Warwick. English soldier. Richard engaged in a sea battle during the Hundred Years War, early 15th century. English manuscript drawing, 1493

The Byward Tower
circa 1890: The Byward Tower, at the Tower of London, a fortress on the River Thames, begun shortly after 1066; used as a palace, a main state prison, and, nowadays, as a museum

Tower Armoury
circa 1890: The Armoury in the Tower of London, the fortress on the Thames begun soon after 1066 and later extended. It has served as a palace, a main state prison and in modern times as a museum

Gamekeepers
1857: Two gamekeepers - or possibly poachers - enjoy a snack on a riverbank. William Grundys English Views (Photo by William Grundy/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Pot Shot
circa 1857: A hunter with his catch of rabbits and birds. William Grundys English Views (Photo by William Grundy/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

The Days Bag
circa 1857: Two men leaning on a style examining their days catch. William Grundys English Views (Photo by William Grundy/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Prussian Victory
circa 1870: Prussian Army Soldiers guarding captured French artillery surrended to them at Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

COLUMBUS AT BARCELONA. Christopher Columbus at the court of Barcelona, Spain, following his return from the New World, 1493

ARISTOPHANES: FROGS. Dionysus and Xanthias before the house of Herakles. Line drawing, 19th century, after an antique Greek vase painting

WORKERS, 14th CENTURY. Men at work, perhaps making longbows. Detail of an illumination by Jehan de Grise in the Romance of Alexander, c1340

CARTOON: ANARCHIST, 1886. The Evolution of the Americanized Foreigner. Alderman Pat Boodle. " Go on, Hans Socialist, you ll be an Alderman some day; I used to be a rioter myself." An

GRIMM: THE SIX SWANS. Drawing by Fritz Kredel for the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

Man wearing scuba gear, carrying speargun

HUNTING, 15th CENTURY. Hunting party. Woodcut, 15th century

FOOL, c1290. Fool with club and bread: manuscript illumination from an English psalter, c1290

Civil War: Major Robertson. Major James M
CIVIL WAR: MAJOR ROBERTSON. Major James M. Robertson (third from left) and officers near Fair Oaks, Virginia. Photograph by James F. Gibson, c1863

CIVIL WAR: FORT RICHARDSON. Union Captain Rufus D. Pettits Battery B, 1st New York Light Artillery at Fort Richardson in the vicinity of Fair Oaks, Virginia. Photograph by George N. Barnard

CIVIL WAR: MORTAR, 1864. 13 inch mortar nicknamed the Dictator in position in Petersburg
CIVIL WAR: MORTAR, 1864. 13 inch mortar nicknamed the " Dictator" in position in Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph by David Knox, September 1864

CIVIL WAR: GUN AND CREW. Robert E. Lees railroad battery, Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, c1864

CIVIL WAR : RODMAN GUNS. Rodman smooth-bore siege guns at Confederate Fort Magruder, Yorktown, Virginia. Photograph by George N. Bernard, 1862

MAORI: WAR DANCE. Five Maori men posing in traditional clothing doing a war dance called haka. Photograph, late 19th or early 20th century

MOHAVE & MARICOPA MEN. Men of the Mohave (standing) and Maricopa tribes. Photographed in Pasadena, California, 1876, by Elias A. Bonine

ATSINA RITUAL, c1908. Atsina Native Americans shooting arrows toward the sky during a ritual dance. Photograph by Edward Curtis, c1908

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