Artillery Collection (page 17)

Uniform of a regiment of horse artillery, France, 1823. Artist: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte
Uniform of a regiment of horse artillery, France, 1823. A print from Collection des Uniformes de L Armee Francaise presentee au Roi, Paris, 1823

Uniform of artillerymen, France, 1823. Artist: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte
Uniform of artillerymen, France, 1823. A print from Collection des Uniformes de L Armee Francaise presentee au Roi, Paris, 1823

Uniform of a squadron of horse artillery train of a Swiss regiment, France, 1823. Artist: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte
Uniform of a squadron of horse artillery train of a Swiss regiment, France, 1823. A print from Collection des Uniformes de L Armee Francaise presentee au Roi, Paris, 1823

Uniform of a regiment of horse artillery train of the royal guard, France, 1823. Artist: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte
Uniform of a regiment of horse artillery train of the royal guard, France, 1823. A print from Collection des Uniformes de L Armee Francaise presentee au Roi, Paris, 1823

Uniform of a regiment of foot artillery of the royal guard, France, 1823. Artist: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte
Uniform of a regiment of foot artillery of the royal guard, France, 1823. A print from Collection des Uniformes de L Armee Francaise presentee au Roi, Paris, 1823

A Hot Day in the Batteries, Crimean War, 1853-1856. Scene from the siege of Sebastopol, October 1854 to September 1855, showing one of the Allies batteries besieging the town

Prussian siege guns at the siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1871. After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III

Prussian guns at the siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War, January 1871 (c1880). After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III

Prussian artillery battery in action, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. The seeds of the Franco-Prussian War were sown by the abdication of Queen Isabella of Spain

Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), 1880. A block in the Jugdulluk Pass: British troops having difficulties on their way to reinforce General Roberts at Cabul (Kabul). December 1879

Drawings of ship gun carriages.. Left, Traversing Carronade carriage. Carronade, short piece of naval ordnance with large calibre chamber, like a mortar

Ship cannon on gun carriage, Wood engraving, 1884
Ship cannon on gun carriage, showing gun-tackle, blocks and pulleys fixed to sides of gun-carriage and to side of ship, by means of which gun is run up to, or drawn back from porthole

Ship cannon on gun carriage. Woodcut, 1835

Carronade, short piece of naval ordnance with large calibre chamber, like a mortar, 1850
Carronade, short piece of naval ordnance with large calibre chamber, like a mortar. Name said to come from Carron Ironworks, Scotland. Wood engraving, 1850

Troops working in one of the underground artillery towers, Maginot Line, Worls War 2, c1940
Maginot Line, French defensive installation. Troops working in one of the underground artillery towers. Man in foreground is using a time-fuse setter. Early 1940

Tsar Nicholas II reviewing Cossacks, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5
Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) Emperor of Russia from 1894, reviewing Cossacks, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 28 February 1904

Russian artillery battery, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5
Russian artillery battery defending Port Arthur, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 27 March 1904

Japanese field battery in action, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. Japanese field battery in action during the attack on Port Arthur, August 1904

Japanese howitzer battery before Port Arthur, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5

Siberian reserve taking up positions, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. Siberian reserve taking up positions with 6-inch guns for the defence of 203 Metre Hill, August 1904

Russian field artillery in the millet field, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5

British artillery going to the attack on Spion Kop, 2nd Boer War, 24 January 1900. Artist: Richard Caton Woodville II
British artillery going to the attack on Spion Kop, 2nd Boer War, 24 January 1900. The British army of 20, 000 under General Sir Redvers Buller was defeated by 8000 Boers under General Louis Botha

Before Ladysmith, 1899. British horse artillery under attack from the Boers, galloping to take up a new position. During the 2nd Boer War (1899-1902)

The approach to Ladysmith, 2nd Boer War, 18 January 1900. British forces hauling a 4.7 inch naval gun across the Tugela (Thukela) River 20 miles from Ladysmith

Laying siege canon on target, from Le diverse et artificiose machine, 1620
Laying siege canon on target, from Agostino Ramellis Le diverse et artificiose machine, 1620 (first edition 1588). Bottom right is a gunners level

Utriusque cosmi historia, 1517-19. Artist: Robert Fludd
Utriusque cosmi historia, 1517-19. Gunners laying siege to moated and fortified enclosure. Attackers are using earth-filled Gabions to protect their guns and themselves

Arms of Precision, 1878. Artist: Charles Samuel Keene
Arms of Precision, 1878. The setting is a Sham Fight, Aldershot.The Brigade Major is saying to the Officer of Artillery: If you Fire by the Compass due South, at a range of Two Miles

Camp Barry near Bladensberg, Maryland. Artillery Depot, 1861-65. Creator: Unknown
Camp Barry near Bladensberg, Maryland. Artillery Depot, 1861-65. Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady

Krupp s, (1919). Creator: Unknown
Krupp s, (1919). This famous cannon foundry, where most of the engines of war employed by the German nation are manufactured, is situated in Essen, a town in the Rhenish Prussian coalfields

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