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Siege of Louisbourg, Canada, July 1745 by David Rowlands. Battle of Louisbourg during the French and Indian Wars, A British Force set out to capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg at Cape Breton island. A Army of New Englanders under the command of Col. William Pepperell supported by an English Fleet under Commander Peter Warren. Attacked the Fortress of Louisbourg on April 30th 1745 and finally captured the fortress on June 17th. A great British Victory which endangered the French position in North America. The fortifications were handed back to France in 1748 in the treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle. |
Operation Crusader, 18th November 1941 by David Pentland. British Crusader MK1 tanks of the 4th County of London Yeomanry Regiment, 22nd Armoured Brigade, charge Axis positions during the opening days of the offensive Bir El Gubi. |
King George II Knighting Trooper Brown After the Battle of Dettingen by J P Beadle. Private Thomas Brown of the 3rd kings own regiment of Dragoons, is knighted by King George the II, (The last reigning British Monarch to be at a Battle) Brown had recaptured the regimental guidon from the French during the battle |
Battle of Friedland by Horace Vernet. As the evening draws to a close Napoleon is seen riding amongst his men after their victory at the Battle of Friedland. Due to the French pressure the Russian Commander General Levin Bennigsen moved his army back to his main camp at Konigsberg in June 1807, while his army of 60,000 men crossed the River Alle at Friedland. It was faced by a French force of 26,000 under the command of Marshal Jean Lannes. The Russian Commander attacked early on the 14th of June. The much smaller force fought of the Russian attacks for nine hours, giving time for the main French force of 80,000 to arrive. Marshall Neys Force came up from the south and attacked the Russian left flank which gave way all the way along the river until just outside Friedland where it was halted. A second corps under the command of General Laude Victor came to the support of Neys left flank. Victor also brought up 30 Artillery pieces which blasted the Russians at very short range. The Russians that were massed in the tiny village and unable to cross the River received huge numbers of casualties due to the artillery fire. General Bennigsens army was decimated with most of his troops killed, wounded or forced to cross the river. The actual looses were 11,000 dead, 7,000 wounded and many thousands of troops drowned trying to cross the river. This compared to the French losses of 1372 killed 9,108 wounded. The French army pursued the Russians with Marshal Soult occupying Konigsberg on June 16th. A few days later Czar Alexander I arranged a truce and on the 25th of June on a barge like raft on the River Niemen along with the Prussian King Frederick Willaim III drew up the Treaty of Tilset. Prussia ceded to France all the territories West of the Elbe, becoming the Kingdom of Westphalia and from the area of Poland both Russia and Prussia recognised the new state, The Duchy of Warsaw. |
The Suffolks at Neuve Chapel by Frank Dadd. Soldiers of the Suffolk Regiments are seen in their trenches during the attacks at Neuve Chappell during the first world war. |
The Madras Foot Artillery at the Assault on Chin-Kiang-Foo, 21st July 1842 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
Last Man Out by Mark Churms. Private Robert Jones. Decorated for conspicuous bravery and devotion to the wounded at Rorkes drift. Private Robert and William Jones, posted in a room of the Hospital facing the hill, kept up a steady fire against enormous odds, and while one worked to cut a hole through the partition into the next room, the other shot Zulu after Zulu through the loophooled walls, using his own and his comrades rifle alternatively when the barrels became to hot to hold owing to the incessant firing. By their united heroic efforts six out of the seven patients were saved by being carried through the broken partition. the seventh, sergeant Maxwell being delirious, refused to be helped, and on Robert Jones returning to take him by force he found him being stabbed by the Zulus in his bed, Robert Jones died in 1898 in Peterchurch Herefordshire . Both men were awarded the Victoria Cross. |
Death of Major Hadelin by Carl Rochling. No text for this item |
The Battle of Waterloo by Felix Philippoteaux. Depicting French Cuirassiers charging onto the British squares during the Battle of Waterloo. |
Oliver Cromwell by Chris Collingwood. Oliver Cromwell born1599 to his father Robert Cromwell, and his mother Elizabeth Steward Cromwell. This painting of Cromwell shows him at the age of 50. From his humble beginnings he became a military leader second to none during the civil war. He was the creator of the Ironsides and was Lord Protector from 1653 to 1658. Many think of him today as a visionary political leader. He died due to a recurring illness on 3rd September 1658. |
East European Mercenary by Chris Collingwood. Part of a series of seven English Civil War uniform stuies. |
Barkmann's Corner by David Pentland. Ernst Barkmann's (Das Reich, 2nd SS Panzer Division) famous day long solo engagement against an American Armoured breakthrough towards St. Lo, Normandy, 26th July 1944. |
Ginkel Heide by John Wynne Hopkins. The prints depict the drop of the 4th Parachute Brigade on Ginkle Heath, on the 18th September 1944. The panting was commissioned by Col John Waddy who was the Officer Commanding B Company 156th Parachute Battalion during that momentous drop and subsequent battles. |
Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson by Chris Collingwood. Stonewall Jackson with the Stonewall Brigade during the Valley Campaign of 1862. |
Ramsays Battery of Horse Artillery at the Battle of Fuentos Onoro, May 5th 1811 by Richard Caton Woodville. No text for this item |
Battle of Issus by Albrecht Altdorfer. Painted in the 15th Century, the artist having no concept of military dress of the time of Alexander, painted figures in the armour of the 14/15th centuries. |
The Bloody Eleventh by David Rowlands. The 11th (North Devon) Regiment at the Battle of Salamanca, 22nd July 1812. |
Sun in Splendour by Chris Collingwood. Soldiers of the Yorkist cause c.1461. Crossbowman, Man at arms and knight with the standard of the Sun in Splendour. |
Moving Forward by David Pentland. Kursk, Russia, July 1943. Su-76 self propelled guns moving north of Kursk. |
Search on the Quoile, 1985 by David Pentland. A joint arms search by members of 3rd Battalion Ulster Defence Regiment and officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. |
Taming the Tiger by Geoff Lea. It is August 1944, barely two months since the Allies landed their first troops on the beaches of Normandy. After the failed Operation Luttich (codename given to a German counterattack during the Battle of Normandy, which took place around the American positions near Mortain from 7 August to 13 August, 1944 ) The German Panzer Divisions were in full retreat, The British and American Generals believed it to be critical to halt them before they cauld regroup. Caught in the Gap at Falaise, the battle was to be decisive. Flying throughout a continuous onslaught, rocket-firing Typhoons kept up their attacks on the trapped armoured divisions from dawn to dusk. The effect was devastating: at the end of the ten day battle the 100,000 strong German force was decimated. The battle of the Falaise Pocket marked the closing phase of the Battle of Normandy with a decisive German defeat. It is believed that between 80,000 to 100,000 German troops were caught in the encirclement of which 10,000 to 15,000 were killed, 45,000 to 50,000 taken prisoner, and around 20,000 escaped . Shown here are German Tiger I tanks under continues attack by Royal Aoir Force Typhoons. |
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