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Cetawayo or Cetewayo (d1884) king of Zululand, South Africa 1873-1883. During the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 Cetawayo was defeated at Ulundi and taken prisoner
Henry VII (1457-1509) first Tudor king of England from 1485. Defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485, the battle which ended the Wars of the Roses. Wood engraving c1900
Richard III (1452-85) king of England from 1483, last Yorkist king of England. He lost the of England crown to Henry Tudor (Henry VII) at the Battle Bosworh Field, 22 August 1485
Edward IV (1442-1483) king of England March 1461 to October 1470 and April 1471-1483. With the help of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, he was declared king in 1461
Edward III (1312-1377) king of England from 1327 on the deposition of his father, Edward II. His claim in 1340 to the throne of France led to the Hundred Years War
Stephen of Blois (c1097-1154) grandson of William the Conqueror, King of England from 1135 after the death of his uncle, Henry I
Edward Montagu lst Earl of Sandwich (1625-72) English naval commander: On the Parliamentary side in Civil Wars. On the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, he was appointed Admiral
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)
Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856. Siege of Sebastopol (Sevastopol) October 1854 to September 1855. View from the south showing the Russian retreat on 8 September 1856. Steel engraving c1860
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
Roman soldiers using two forms of battering ram against the walls of a fortress. A, in the foreground, is the simple form resting on the mens shoulders
Roman soldiers scaling the walls of a fortress using ladders mounted on boats. 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
Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, (1790-1858) English naval officer born at Burton near Christchurch, Hampshire. Entered the Royal Navy in1803
Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-81) American soldier: Unionist general in American Civil War. His style of facial hair was called Burnsides and is now known as sideburns. Engraving
Queen Victoria distributing Crimean Medals at Horse Guards, London, 18 May 1856. She is presenting a medal to Sir Thomas Troubridge (1815-1867) who lost his right leg and left foot at Inkermann
Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War (1853-1856): Battlefield on the night after Alma, 20 September 1854, tending the wounded and recovering the bodies of the dead. Engraving
Queen Victoria and her family receiving the Guards at Buckingham Palace, London, England, on their return from the Crimea after the Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War (1853-1856). Engraving
Archibald Campbell (1769-1843) British career soldier. Colonel 1814: Major-general 1825: Lieutenant-general 1838. Served in India 1788-1799, and in Peninsular campaign in Napoleonic Wars
Sandwich Edward Montagu lst Earl of Sandwich (1625-72) English naval commander: On Parliamentary side in Civil Wars: on Restoration, 1660, appointed admiral
James Thomas Brudenell, seventh Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868) English cavalry officer: major-general 1847. Commanded the light cavalry brigade in Crimean War
Frederick-William III (1770-1840) king of Prussia from 1797. Declared war on Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806. Lithograph c1830
Constantine Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818-1882) Russian military engineer. Distinguished service at Kars during the Crimean War (1855): Governor of Tukestan 1867-1882. Colour-printed wood engraving
Robert Cedric (RC) Sherriff (1896-1975), English playwright, novelist and scriptwriter, born at Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
Ian Hay (1876-1952) pen name of Major John Hay Beith, Scottish dramatist and popular novelist. Director of public relations at the War Office 1938-1941
(Margaret) Storm Jameson (1891-1986) born at Whitby, Yorkshire, English novelist, essayist and biographer. During Word War 2 she was president of PEN, the international association of Poets
Philip Gibbs (1877-1962) British novelist, journalist and war correspondent, born in London. From a series of cards of Famous British Authors (London, 1937)
Robert Blake (1599-1657) English naval commander, born at Bridgwater, Somerset. During the English Civil War he fought on the side of Parliament against Charles I
Crimean War (Russo-Turkish War) 1853-1856. Siege of Sebastopol, October 1854 to September 1855. British troops inside the captured Redan. Tinted lithograph after William Simpson (1823-1899)
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
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: Wilhelm I (1797-1788) king of Prussia and first Emperor of Germany, visiting wounded German troops being nursed in the Palace of Versailles. Wood engraving
Red Cross: Military ambulance carrying a Red Cross flag transporting Russian wounded during Russo-Turkish War, 1877. From a contemporary chromolithograph
HMS Royal Sovereign, British lst class battleship. Laid down 26 February 1891. Commissioned 31 May 1892. Sold for scrap 7 October 1913. Illustration by William Frederick Mitchell. Lithograph 1892
Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905. Russian six inch howitzer battery during the defence of Port Arthur
Wreckage of the plane in which the British pilot Flight-Lieutenant Warneford was killed on 17 June 1915. Awarded Victoria Cross for shooting down Zeppelin LZ 37 on 7 June 1915
British pilot Albert Ball posing with trophies from his 43rd victory. Shot down and killed 7 May 1917 after his 47th victory. World War I
Flight-Sergeant Frantz and his mechanic Guenault who, on 5 October 1914, shot down a German Aviatik from their voisin biplane. First aerial victory of World War I
Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905: Battery of Japanese siege guns bombarding Port Arthur, 8 October 1904
Heiachiro Togo (1847-1934) Japanese naval commander. Commander-in-Chief during Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905: Generals Stoessel (Russian) and Nogi (Japanese) meeting to arrange terms for the capitulation of Port Arthur by the Russians. January 1905
French Air ace Adolphe Pegoud, 4th from right, in front of his plane on the day when fellow officers presented him with a bouquet in celebration of his latest citation. Killed action 1915
French Air ace Adolphe Pegoud. Wreckage of plane in which Pegoud was killed in action, 1915. First World War
Flight-Lieutenant Warneford, British pilot, awarded Victoria Cross for shooting down Zeppelin LZ 37 on 7 June 1915. Here in Paris on the eve of his fatal flying accident on 17 June. World War I
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: Occupation of Paris - the first German in Paris, February 1871. Wood engraving c1880
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