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Types of Armour

Explanation of the Plate of Armour No. 1. A Shield called a Roundel. No. 2. A Target. No. 3. A Leaden Mallet, used by the archers, mentioned in the military part of the preface. No. 4. An Iron Mace us [...]

Keywords: armour, weapons, knights, shields, helmets, swords, spears

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Added: 2006-01-11

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August and Virgo

“AUGUST The eigth wsa August, being rich array’d In garment all of gold downe to the ground: Yet rode he not, but led a lovely mayd Forth by the lily hand, the which was crown’d With eares of corne [w [...]

Keywords: people, weapons, swords, summer, calendars, months, august, virgo, zodiac, astrology, september

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-02

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Sheridan’s Ride by T. Buchanan Read

“Sheridan’s next operations, however, were the most important, as they have become the most renowned, in his career. Passing through Strasburg [USA], he posted his troops on the further bank of Cedar [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, horses, swords, american civil war

Places shown: Strasburg; Pennsylvania; USA

Added: 2006-08-30

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Behold it then! cried Perseus

“Behold it then!” cried Perseus, in a voice like the blast of a trumpet. King Polydectes has demanded to be shown the head of the Gorgon, which turns to stone all who gaze upon it. So the King is of [...]

Keywords: soldiers, mythology, illustrations for children, colour, bare feet, weapons, swords, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-04-10

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2048.—Cuirassier, 1645 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court)

See Fig. 2045.

Keywords: soldiers, people, armour, knights, swords, helmets

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-03-19

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1789.—The Grand Falconer

The Grand Falconer is an hereditary position that dates from medieval times, and belongs to the Duke of St. Albans. The man shown here wears a Middle-Eastern-style head-dress with a diadem and carries [...]

Keywords: people, falconry, swords, dogs, animals, castles

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-08

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80.—British and Roman Weapons.

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 infantry [...]

Keywords: weapons, swords, shields, helmets, axes, spears

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-25

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2043.—Musketeer, 1603

(From a Specimen at Goodrich Court; engraved in Skelton’s Armour.)

Keywords: armour, weapons, people, costumes, soldiers, swords

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-12-20

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2046.—Pikeman, 1635. (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court.)

A soldier from the English Civil war. “The trained bands were the ridicule of the Cavaliers, as being composed of apprentices, artisans, and shopkeepers of London; they were called the “thimble and bo [...]

Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, swords, people, helmets, beards

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-12

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Edward I.

King Edward I (“Longshanks”) of England lived from 1239 – 1307. He was crowned in 1272 but was away on Crusade and did not rule until 1274. He is shown here riding a horse and wearing a full suit of [...]

Keywords: royalty, knights, horses, weapons, swords

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-02

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2045.—Infantry Armour, 1625 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court; engraved in Skelton’s Armour)

“Armour, on the decline at the close of the last period, continued to be used through the [English] Civil Wars, though it did not exactly justify James I’s characteristic praise—that it not only saved [...]

Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, swords, shields, people, helmets

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-03-19

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Frontispiece: Clerk Colvill

The young man clutches his hat with one hand and with the other holds aloft a sword as he kneels at the edge of a pond. From that same pond a mermaid rises up, arms raised, breasts bare. This beautifu [...]

Keywords: people, trees, water, swords, mermaids, colour

Places shown: Slane; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2006-05-13

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