Military Personnel Collection (#38)

Dark Artillery; or, How to Make the Contrabands Useful, American Civil War, 1861. Contrabands were Negro slaves who had escaped or been brought across Union (northern) lines

Confederate General Hood wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, American Civil War, 1863
Confederate General Hood wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, American Civil War, 1863. The battle, fought on 18-20 September 1860 claimed over 34

Leonidas Polk, American cleric and soldier. Polk (1806-1864) was appointed Bishop of Arkansas in 1838, and of Louisiana in 1841

William J Hardee, American soldier. Hardee (1817-1873) was a Major-General in the Confederate army in the American Civil War (1861-1865)

John A McClernand, American soldier. McClernand (1812-1900) was a Major-General in the Union (northern) Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). He was a rival of General Ulyssess Grant

Off for the War. Artist: Currier and Ives
Off for the War. A Unionist (northern) soldier bidding farewell to his family before leaving for the American Civil War

Russian infantry charging during Brusilovs offensive against Austria-Hungary, World War I, 1916. Russian general Alexei Brusilov (1856-1926)

Alexei Brusilov, Russian soldier, c1914-c1917. A general during World War I, Brusilov (1856-1926) planned and commanded a major offensive against Austria-Hungary in 1916

Grigoriy Efimovich Rasputin, Russian mystic and holy man. Rasputin (1869-1916) exercised considerable influence over Tsar Nicholas II and particularly the Tsarina

Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, Russian general, 1917. Grand Duke Nicholas (1856-1929) was appointed Commander-in-chief of the Russian army at the outbreak of World War I

Seizure of the Russian Parliament in Petrograd by revolutionary soldiers, Russia, 1917
Seizure of the Russian Parliament in Petrograd (St Petersburg/Leningrad) by revolutionary soldiers, Russia, 1917

Alexei Brusilov, Russian soldier, 1917. A general during World War I, Brusilov (1856-1926) planned and commanded a major offensive against Austria-Hungary in 1916

Troops attempting to clear streets during anti-Jewish riots, Algiers, Algeria, 1898. From Le Petit Journal The body of a victim of the violence lies on the floor in the foreground

Winfield Scott, American soldier, 1861. Scott (1786-1866) was general-in-chief of the US Army from 1841-61. In 1852 he unsuccessfully ran for President

Viscount Wolsley, British soldier, 1874. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Viscount Wolsley, British soldier, 1874. Garnet Joseph Wolsley, (1833-1913) won the Victoria Cross in the Indian Mutiny and led the relief of Khartoum in 1884-1885

Andre Massena, French soldier, c1820. Artist: Delpech
Andre Massena, French soldier, c1820. Regarded as one of Napoleons greatest generals, Massena (1758-1817) first distinguished himself in the revolutionary wars

Michel Ney, French soldier of the Napoleonic Wars, 1817. Ney (1769-1815) was made a Marshal of France in 1804. He commanded the French army at the Battle of Friedland (1807)

Foot soldier carrying an harquebus, 1590. The first gun to be fired from the shoulder, the harquebus was invented in Spain in the mid 15th century

Henry Harley Arnold (1886-1950), American air force officer, 1941-1944. Hap Arnold (left) was Chief of US Army Air Forces throughout World War II

George Anson, Baron Anson (1697-1762), English naval commander. Anson command a Royal Navy squadron of 6 ships sent to attack Spanish interests in South America at the outset of the War of Austrian

Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942), third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, c1890. The Duke of Connaught had a distinguished career in the British Army

Convoi d Artillerie Automobile ( Convoy of Motorised Artillery ), World War I, France, 1918. After a watercolour by French war artist Georges Scott (1880-1947). ARTISTs COPYRIGHT MUST ALSO BE CLEARED

L Automobile Pendant la Guerre, France World War I, 1914-1918. French motorised ambulances and walking wounded towards the end of the war

Au Volant ( At the Wheel ), 1918. Motorised transport towards the end of World War I. After a watercolour by Georges Scott (1880-1947), French war artist. ARTISTs COPYRIGHT MUST ALSO BE CLEARED

To the Victors!, World War I, 1917-1918. British troops man-handling a captured German Field Gun as they remove it from its position

French lst Infantry Corps crossing of the Yser Canal, World War I, 4. 45 am, 31 July 1917
French lst Infantry Corps crossing of the Yser Canal, World War I, 4.45 am, 31 July 1917. After a painting by Francois Flameng (1856-1923)

The 0ffensive at Yser, 1917. The French line near Het-Sas just before 31 July. Soldiers waiting for orders amongst trees shattered by the gunfire of previous engagements

Death of Henri, Vicomte de Turenne, French soldier, 1675 (c1871-1940). Artist: Maurice Leloir
Death of Henri, Vicomte de Turenne, French soldier, 1675 (c1871-1940). Officers of Marshal Turennes (1611-1675) army lamenting over his body after he was killed while reconnoitring at Sasbach in

John Joseph Pershing, American general. Pershing (1860-1948) was Commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Force sent to Europe in 1917. He was US Army Chief of Staff from 1921-1924

Eugene, Prince of Savoy, French-born Austrian soldier, c1820. Artist: Delpech
Eugene, Prince of Savoy, French-born Austrian soldier, c1820. Regarded as one of the outstanding military strategists of his time

Kitchener of Khartoum in dress uniform, c 1900s. Irish-born British soldier and statesman Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916)

The Siege of Namur, scene before the final attack, 5 August 1695. Artist: Jan van Huchtenburg
The Siege of Namur, scene before the final attack, 5 August 1695. The army of the Grand Alliance, commanded by William III (1650-1702) of England

The Battle of Villa Viciosa, 11 December 1710 (19th century). Artist: Jean Alaux
The Battle of Villa Viciosa, 11 December 1710 (19th century). Depiction of the battle in the War of the Spanish Succesion in which army of Philip V of Spain, commanded by Louis Joseph

Battle of Fleurus, 16 June 1794 (19th century). Artist: Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse
Battle of Fleurus, 16 June 1794 (19th century). Marshal Jean Baptiste Jourdan (1762-1833), mounted on the grey horse, commanding the French army to victory against the Austrians

Battle of Lens, 28 August 1648 (19th century). Artist: Pierre Franque
Battle of Lens, 28 August 1648 (19th century). Depiction of the Battle of Lens, the final large-scale engagement of the Thirty Years War

Siege of Dunkirk, France, 14 June 1658. Depiction of the Battle of the Dunes, an engagement in the Franco-Spanish War won by an Anglo-French army under Marshal Turenne (1611-1675)

Battle of Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt, 13 September 1882 (1887). Lieutenant-General Garnet Wolseley (1833-1913), directing the battle at the end of the British expedition to Egypt to crush the revolt of

The Abyssinian Expedition, 1868. Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-1890), British soldier, leading the attack on the Abyssinian fortress of Magdala, April 1868

Gunner firing a cannon, 1561. The path of the projectile is shown according to Aristotelian physics. Since he believed that no body could undertake more than one motion at a time

Siege of Delhi, Indian Mutiny, September 1857. Colonel Campbells troops storming the Cashmere Gate after engineers had blown it up

First relief of Lucknow by General Henry Havelock, Indian Mutiny, 15 September 1857. The siege of Lucknow was one of the major engagements of the uprising against British rule in India which began in

Jean Baptiste Kleber, French soldier, c1830. Kleber (1753-1800) enlisted in the French Revolutionary army in 1792. Left in command of Egypt by Napoleon in 1799

Michel Ney, French soldier, c1830. One of Napoleons most prominent generals, Ney (1769-1815) led the rearguard of the Grande Armees retreat from Moscow in 1812

Andre Massena, French soldier, c1830. Regarded as one of Napoleons greatest generals, Massena (1758-1817) first distinguished himself in the revolutionary wars

Joachim Murat, French soldier, c1830. Murat (1767-1815) was made a Marshal of France in 1804 and became King of Naples in 1808

Storming of the Bastille by Parisians led by the Grenadier Guards, 14 July 1789 (1804). On the morning of 14 July 1789, a crowd advanced on the Bastille, the state prison in Paris

Andre Massena, French soldier. Regarded as one of Napoleons greatest generals, Massena (1758-1817) first distinguished himself in the revolutionary wars

Jean Victor Moreau, French Revolutionary soldier. Artist: Delpech
Jean Victor Moreau, French Revolutionary soldier. Moreau (1761-1813) supported Napoleons coup d etat in 1799 and was subsequently given command of the Army of the Rhine

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