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Thermopylae 480BC, Spartan and Thespaian Hoplites. By Chris Collingwood. (PC) So Tell The Spartans, Stranger passing by that here, Obedient to their laws, we lie. In 480 BC the Spartans tried to defend the pass at Thermopylae against the Persians led by Xerxes. The Persian fleet had sailed along the coastline from northern Greece into the Gulf of Malia on the eastern Aegean Sea towards the mountains at Thermopylae. The Greek General and King Leonidas led the Greeks and tried to defend the pass of Thermopylae. All the defending Spartans were killed during the Battle of Thermopylae. Their defence and courage provided inspiration to the Greeks, and the following year the Greeks won battles against their old enemy the Persians. |
Alfred The Great by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Alfred was born in 849 at Wantage, Oxfordshire He was the youngest son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex, he became King of the Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is known for his great defence of the Kingdoms of southern England against the Vikings. Eventually in 871 he made peace with the Vikings who agreed to a withdrawal out of his kingdom. It is likely a large payment of gold was made. Alfred was awarded the epithet The Great, and was the only king to be awarded this title. Alfred the Great was a learned man and improved the education and legal and military systems and structure. Alfred died on the 26th October 899 |
Major General George Armstrong Custer by Chris Collingwood. (PC) At the Battle of Five Forks, April 1865. |
The Uhlans - Black Brunswick Lancers c.1815. (PC) No text for this item |
Union Artillery at the Battle of Malvern Hill., July 1862 by Chris Collingwood. (PC) On July 1st 1862 in Henrico County Virginia, the battle of Malvern Hill, also known as the Battle of Poindexters Farm, took place, The battle of Malvern Hill was last of six battles fought in seven days wich are known as the Seven Day battles of the Peninsula Campaign. Gen.Robert E Lee launched a series of assaults on the nearly impregnable Union troop position on Malvern Hill. The Confederate forces suffered more than 5,300 casualties without any success. Although the Union forces had won, Major George B McClellan withdrew from his strong position to entrench his army at Harrison Landing on the James River where the Union troops would be protected from the sea by Union Gunboats. |
Portrait of Wellington by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Arthur Wellesley is shown in his uniform of Lt. General (with the most honourable Order of the Bath) at the time of the Battle of Vimiero 21st August 1808. |
Balearic Slinger by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Roman army auxiliary. It is said that a good slinger could propel his missile up to 400 metres, this being greater than the bow and arrow. |
Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Stonewall Jackson with the Stonewall Brigade during the Valley Campaign of 1862. |
Brother Against Brother by Chris Collingwood. (PC) The American Civil War saw not only the split between north and south but also even between family members. |
General Erwin Rommel with the Africa Korps before the Battle for Tobruk by Chris Collingwood. (PC) No text for this item |
Centurian by Chris Collingwood. (PC) No text for this item |
Storming of Badajoz by Chris Collingwood. (PC) The Storming of the night of April 6th 1812 of Badajoz Castle proved to be Wellingtons bloodiest siege. Depicted here are soldiers of the 88th Connaught Rangers (famously the Devils Own) and part of Pictons 3rd Division, successfully escalading the high walls of the Castle. |
Roman Pilum by Chris Collingwood. (PC) The pilum was thrown just as the legionaries charged. The small bullet shaped metal point could penetrate shields and armour and cause serious injury to the enemy. |
Ride Like the Devil - the Charge of the 13th Light Dragoons at the Battle of Vittoria by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Battle of Vittoria, June 21st 1813. Duke of Wellingtons victory over the French with an army of 79,000 British, Portuguese and rebel Spanish troops. The battle of Vittoria ended Napoleons domination of Spain. |
82nd Airborne by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Superb figure study of the 82nd Airborne in 1944. |
Stormd at with Shot and Shell, 17th Light Dragoons (Lancers) Oct 25 1854 at Balaclava by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them, Volleyd and thunderd, Stormd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred. The following is part of a letter from an officer of the Light Brigade who was camped near Balaclava on October 27th: ...there was no hesitation: down our fellows went at a gallop, through a fire in front and on both flanks, which emptied our saddles and knocked over our horses by scores. I do not think that one man flinched in the whole brigade, though every one allows that so hot a fire was hardly ever seen. |
Sons of Odin by Chris Collingwood. (PC) A Viking raiding party comes ashore from their Viking longboat on the western coast of England, 890 A.D. |
Fire from the Fens, c.1071 by Chris Collingwood. (PC) In the year 1070, Saxon England lay under Norman oppression. Only one last centre of resistance remained. The Isle of Ely in the Fenlands of East Anglia. Here, Hereward Leofricson, son of Earl Leofric and Lady Godiva, emerged as a warrior leader. Struggling against overwhelming odds in his defiance of the Normans. The legend of Hereward the Wake was born. |
The Charge of the Red Lancers on Mercer's Troop of Royal Horse Artillery by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Waterloo - 18th June 1815. The Red Lancers made five separate attempts on the allied squares and batteries suffering heavy casualties but failing to break either. Mercer's artillery troop would not retire and served their guns continuously regardless of repeated attack. |
Primus Pilus by Chris Collingwood. (PC) In his 50s with 30 years experience, who has now attained High Centurian rank and commands the entire 1st Cohort. |
Baron Von Richthofen, March 1918 by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Germanys greatest First World War fighter ace, Baron Von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron is shown departing his Fokker DR.1 Triplane 425/17 after yet another successful sortie. 425/17 was the aircraft in which the Red Baron finally met his end in April of that year. No fewer than 17 of his victories having been scored in his red-painted triplane. |
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