Items matching battles

Vanquished Army Passing Under the Yoke

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable says, in the entry for Yoke, “To pass under the yoke. To suffer the disgrace of a vanquished army. The Romans made a yoke of three spears—two upright and one r [...]

Keywords: battles, ancient rome, bare feet

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Added: 2005-03-20

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Gladiators, detail

A detail from Combat of Gladiators with Wild Animals

Keywords: people, animals, battles, backgrounds, wallpaper

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Added: 2007-09-03

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Combat of Gladiators with Wild Animals

In the foreground, a Roman gladiator fights with a lion; he is naked from head to foot except for what look like metal underpants and a ring around his left leg, and he brandishes a short sword or dag [...]

Keywords: weapons, people, nudity, animals, bare feet, lions, gladiators, battles

Places shown: Rome

Added: 2007-09-03

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Nelson at Trafalgar.

The picture shows Lord Horatio Nelson (1758 – 1805) at the Battle of Trafalgar, where he died. “The last battle in which Nelson was engaged was fought off Cape Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. The enemy w [...]

Keywords: ships, battles, people, portraits

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Added: 2006-08-30

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1274.—Moveable Towers of Archers, Cannon, etc.

(Royal MS. 14 Edw. IV) “A few words by way of appendage to this part of our subject may here be devoted to the subject of our engravings, representing the storming of a fort (Fig. 1251), the siege of [...]

Keywords: battles, castles, weapons, siege engines, archery, soldiers

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Added: 2007-05-18

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869.—Attack on the Walls of a besieged Tower.

The Cut shows two forms of the Battering-ram in use, for making breaches in the fortifications.

Keywords: castles, battles, weapons, siege engines, people

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Added: 2005-12-20

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870.—Machines for Boring Holes in Castle Walls.

Medieval crusaders (mediaeval knights) use various devices to make holes in the defensive walls of a castle. In the background a group of people wearing tunics are talking, while a couple of distant s [...]

Keywords: castles, backgrounds, wallpaper, siege engines, battles, weapons, people

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Added: 2005-12-20

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1144.—Quarter-staff (From the Old Ballad of Robin Hood and the Tanner.)

“Quarter-staff (Fig. 1144) was the glory of the stout old English peasant or yeoman, in which, as far as we can learn, he was without a competitor in any foreign nation.” (p. 334) Two men in a forest [...]

Keywords: weapons, people, battles, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2006-06-08

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867.—The Siege of Calais

“They sent to Edward; who, however, would listen to no terms but unconditional submission. The noble Sir Walter Manny, however, spoke for them; and, at last, mercy was promised to all but six of the c [...]

Keywords: bare feet, knights, warfare, battles, weapons

Places shown: Calais; Pas-de-Calais; France

Added: 2005-12-20

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127.—Bestarii

A Sculpture FromPompeii

Keywords: people, animals, nudity, bare feet, weapons, battles

Places shown: Pompeii; Italy

Added: 2005-12-20

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868.—Machines used for the Defence of Stone Walls against the action of Battering rams.

“in Figs. 868 to 870 is illustrated the whole process of battering the walls as carried on in [late 13th century and early 14th century]. Slow, but sure, after that the work of destruction went on, ti [...]

Keywords: castles, siege engines, diagrams, battles, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2005-12-20

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1951.—Battle at Worcester

At top – View of Worcester. (From an old [as of 1845] Print.) The battle was fought on the foreground meadows. In the centre, the flight of [King] Charles before the Parliamentary Soldiers; designed [...]

Keywords: battles, horses, weapons, churches, towers, houses, towns, horses

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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