Rifleman Collection

Rifle fete at Ecclesbourne, near Hastings, 1860. Creator: W Thomas
Rifle fete at Ecclesbourne, near Hastings, 1860. The contest was chiefly among the members of the Cinque Ports Corps...The first prize was a Lancaster rifle, value ten guineas, which was won by Mr

First line Gurkhas storming and capturing a German trench, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Crown
First line Gurkhas storming and capturing a German trench, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The Battle on the Volturno - the final repulse of the Neapolitans... 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Battle on the Volturno - the final repulse of the Neapolitans - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860

Mr. Edward Ross, the Rifle Champion of England - from a photograph by Claudet, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Mr. Edward Ross, the Rifle Champion of England - from a photograph by Claudet, 1860. Winner of a shooting competition held on Wimbledon Common

The recent Tir National at Vincennes, near Paris - from a drawing by J. A. Beaucé, 1860. Creator: Smyth
The recent Tir National at Vincennes, near Paris - from a drawing by J. A. Beauce, 1860. The English volunteer and the British officer in undress, with the military attendant carrying his rifle

Sharpshooters behind a parapet, 1832, (1833). Creator: Auguste Raffet
Sharpshooters behind a parapet, 1832, (1833). Logement des tirailleurs du 19eme leger - Etabli sur le flanc droit de la Contre-garde'

Rifleman, 1830-1831. Creator: Anon
Rifleman, 1830-1831. Soldier in uniform. Part of a series of six drawings of uniforms of the Dutch army around 1830

Esquisse pour la mairie d'Arcueil-Cachan : Le Tir, 1888. Creator: Paul Albert Baudouin
Esquisse pour la mairie d'Arcueil-Cachan : Le Tir, 1888

Colonel J. Garrard, between 1913 and 1918. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Colonel J. Garrard, between 1913 and 1918
Colonel Joseph Garrard, between 1913 and 1918. US Army officer wearing Indian Wars and Philippine Insurrection 1899 medals

Harper's October, c1890 - 1907. Creator: Edward Penfield
Harper's October, c1890 - 1907. [Publisher: Harper Publications; Place: New York]

Harper's October, c1890 - 1907. Creator: Edward Penfield
Harper's October, c1890 - 1907. [Publisher: Harper Publications; Place: New York]

The Siege of Sebastopol - the Rifles in the Trenches, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Siege of Sebastopol - the Rifles in the Trenches, 1854. Crimean War. The latest accounts from the English Camp inform us that our riflemen in the trenches continue to pick off the Russian gunners

Colonel J. Garrard, between 1913 and 1918. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Colonel J. Garrard, between 1913 and 1918
Colonel Joseph Garrard, between 1913 and 1918. US Army officer wearing medals, including Expert Rifleman insignia

Little, the instigator of Indian Revolt at Pine Ridge, 1890, 1891. Creator: John C. H. Grabill
Little, the instigator of Indian Revolt at Pine Ridge, 1890, 1891. Little, Oglala leader, full-length studio portrait seated between two standing Euro-American men; Chris Mathison ()

Mr. Pixley, of the Victoria Rifles, winner of the Queen's Prize at the National Rifle Contest, 1862. This gentleman is by no means an undistinguished rifleman

Our Colonial Defences--A Company of the Mounted Rifles Manoeuvring in Victoria, Australia, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Our Colonial Defences--A Company of the Mounted Rifles Manoeuvring in Victoria, Australia, 1890

The Last Meeting of the National Rifle Association at Wimbledon, 1888. Creator: Unknown
The Last Meeting of the National Rifle Association at Wimbledon, 1888. From, The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume38. July to December, 1888

The Army of the Potomac - A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty, 1862. Creator: Winslow Homer
The Army of the Potomac - A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty, 1862

A Coromantyn Free Negro, or Ranger, armed, 1793. Creator: William Blake
A Coromantyn Free Negro, or Ranger, armed, 1793

General Daniel Morgan in a buckskin coat of the Virginia rangers, c1780, (1937). Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia

Types of the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1919. Creator: Richard Simkin
Types of the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1919. Soldiers serving during the First World War, 1914-1919: Infantry of the line (review order and service kit); Artillery; Hussar; Jager

Sprang Out of the Morass and Flew at the Throats of the Renowned Riflemen, 1902. Episode of the War of 1812, (1812-1815), fought between the United States of America and the British Empire

A real American rifleman, c1776-1780 (c1880). From An Impartial History of the War in America, 1780. A print from Cassells History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume II

Passage of the Ingour by Omar Pasha (1806-1871), 1854 (1857). Artist: T Sherratt
Passage of the Ingour by Omar Pasha (1806-1871), 1854 (1857). From Englands Battles by Sea and Land, volume IV: Russia and Turkey, by Lieutenant Colonel Williams

The departure of the Grenadier Guards, Trafalgar Square, London, 1854 (1857). Artist: DJ Pound
The departure of the Grenadier Guards on their way to the east, Trafalgar Square, London, 1854 (1857). From Englands Battles by Sea and Land, volume II: Russia and Turkey

Royal Munster Fusiliers fighting at Honey Nest Kloof, South Africa, 1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Royal Munster Fusiliers fighting at Honey Nest Kloof, South Africa, 1900. Stereoscopic card. Detail

H Company, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Belgaum, India, 1900s. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
H Company, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Belgaum, India, 1900s. Stereoscopic slide. Detail

Napoleon Bonaparte (1721-1818) dissolving the Council of Five Hundred, 1845. Artist:s Freeman
Napoleon Bonaparte (1721-1818) dissolving the Council of Five Hundred, 1845. Napoleon enjoyed a meteoric rise through the ranks of the French Revolutionary army

Russian soldiers of 1813 (19th century)
Russian soldiers of 1760 (19th centruy)

Grenadier guard battalion, 1786-1806 (19th century). Artist: W Korn
Grenadier guard battalion, 1786-1806 (19th century)

German soldiers from the Waterloo period, 19th century

A voltigeur, 19th century. The voltigeurs were a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry

Costumes of the Swiss Federal Army, 1857. From the Illustrated Times, 1857

The storming of Seringapatam resulting in the death of Tippu Sultan, 1894. Artist: Richard Caton Woodville II
The storming of Seringapatam resulting in the death of Tippu Sultan, 1894. In the fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799, the Battle of Seringapatam was the final confrontation between the British

A member of the Georgian aristocracy, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume IV: Georgia to Italy

Riflemen, France, 1899. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
Riflemen, France, 1899. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 23rd June 1899

Riflemen, 19th century

The American Rifle Men, 1776. 1776. Creator: Anon
The American Rifle Men, 1776

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