Items matching soldiers (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Charles the King walked for the last time through the streets of London An Island Story (1920)

King Charles is followed by a priest, and surrounded by soldiers with lances. He wears 17th-century costume. [King Charles I] had been foolish, he had been wicked, but now, in the face of death, he b [...]

Keywords: royalty, soldiers, people, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2009-05-05

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A Siege of the Fifteenth Century Castles (1926)

From a manuscript belonging to EdwardIV., now in Sir John Soan’s Museum. The [castle] walls, having ben breached by the artillery, are being stormed through the breaches; the stormers are covered by t [...]

Keywords: castles, colour, people, weapons, soldiers, towers

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-13

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A Mameluke in Full Armour. Pictureseque Egypt Vol II (1878)

We have seen how deplorable was the condition of the country [1790s Egypt] at that time, drained by the greed of the Turkish Pacha and the Mameluke Beys; its population, which at the present day [1870 [...]

Keywords: people, costumes, soldiers, weapons, spears, swords, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2010-12-28

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The shore was covered with men ready for battle An Island Story (1920)

Men wearing tarrered rags or perhaps animal skins, and carrying spears and shields, watch from atop white cliffs as Roman galleys near the shore. The time depicted is about the first century C.E., or [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, bare feet, ships, water, backgrounds, wallpaper, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: England

Added: 2009-05-06

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82.—Roman General, Standard Bearers, etc. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Here are some Roman soldiers in suitable effeminate poses as they reach the shore by crossing a bridge supported by their boats. It was here, then, that the British and Roman weapons first came into c [...]

Keywords: boats, weapons, soldiers, costumes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-07

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86.—Prow of a Roman Galley. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantr [...]

Keywords: soldiers, boats, weapons, shields, roman soldiers, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-24

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95.—Roman Galley Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A picture of a Roman coin showing a lighter sort of Roman galley, or rowing-boat. The rowers here appear to be wearing helmets, so presumably are soldiers rather than slaves. Compare with Fig. 94. d [...]

Keywords: boats, ships, soldiers, people, roman coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-11-03

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96.—Roman Standard Bearers. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two Roman men, with long curly hair and skirts, adopt feminine poses, one holding a stick with a carved eagle on it, universal symbol of despotism, and the other has a banner with SPQR, the Latin that [...]

Keywords: soldiers, people, symbols, hair, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-09-18

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97.—Roman Soldiers. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Three Roman soldiers are shown: one with a round shield and two short spears or arrows, one with a tall shield obviously for riot control, and a long spear or javelin, and one seated on the ground. [. [...]

Keywords: soldiers, people, weapons, shields, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-11-03

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114.—Conflict between Romans and Barbarians. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The wood engraving shows men with curved square shields and helmets fighting men with round shields at close range. The winners are always the ones to call the losers barbarians. For ninety-seven year [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, battles, fighting, weapons, shields, death, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-09

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The Discovery of Tin in Britain Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

A cartoon illustrating how the Romans discovered that Britain had... er... tin.

Keywords: people, boats, soldiers, weapons, romans, cartoons, humour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-10

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Cæsar crossing the channel. Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“Cæsar [Caesar] first came to Great Britain on account of a bilious attack. On the way across the channel a violent storm came up. The great emporor and pantata believed he was drowning, so that in an [...]

Keywords: people, boars, soldiers, romans, cartoons, humour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-27

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