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[1945 racing programme, sold to raise funds for the Red Cross. The races were probably arranged by the British military in post-war occupied Italy].
Date: 1945- Books
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The operations of the British, and the allied arms, During The Campaigns of 1743 and 1744, Historically deducted. By an Eye-Witness.
Eye-witness.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Pictures
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Russo-Japanese War: a street scene in Tokyo with wounded Japanese sitting in a cart. Pen and ink drawing by D. MacPherson, 1904.
MacPherson, Douglas, 1871-1951.Date: 1904Reference: 23864i- Pictures
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A uniformed German army doctor arriving at the scene of an accident. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 24294i- Pictures
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A man dressed in drag as a cowgirl. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915-1920.
Date: [between 1915? and 1920?]Reference: 2043352iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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Cavalry marching through a mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
Reference: 27042i- Ephemera
Holloway's Indian & colonial series : 1st Punjab cavalry : Holloway's pills & ointment.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Pictures
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Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.
Rugendas, Georg Philipp, 1666-1742.Reference: 24446iPart of: Grosse Schlachtenszenen fuer Lothar Franz Graf von Schoenborn- Pictures
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A uniformed German army doctor treats a wounded soldier on a hilltop while others assist and stand nearby. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 24293i- Pictures
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A German army medical officer treating a wounded man who is supported by a third soldier, in the open air. Coloured lithograph, c.1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 24292i- Pictures
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A wounded soldier is helped on the ground by a medical officer under instruction from a mounted army doctor. Coloured lithograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 24302i- Pictures
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Transporting artillery through a mountain pass, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
Reference: 27041i- Pictures
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A procession to war with a band and cavalry. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 27658i- Pictures
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Boer War: a British officer on a battlefield demanding possession of the wounded from the Boers. Halftone, 1900, after R. M. Paxton after E. Prater.
Prater, Ernest, active 1900.Date: [1900]Reference: 23706i- Pictures
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Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd. Engraving.
Reference: 20635i- Pictures
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War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.
Overend, William Heysham, 1851-1898.Reference: 20891i- Pictures
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Army medical officers in the field constructing stretchers with logs and straw which are then pulled by a horse. Watercolour.
Reference: 24322i- Pictures
The Treaty of Paris: the King-at-arms with decrescent moons on his tabard sits on a horse with the ears of an ass surrounded by grotesque attendants. Engraving by Patchpeace, 1763.
Patchpeace.Date: [March 22 1763]Reference: 581172i- Books
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The art of war. In four parts. Containing, I. The duties of officers of horse. II. Of officers of foot. III. Of a soldier in general, with variety of Examples of such as have been Disgrac'd for being ignorant of their. IV. The rules and practice of war by all great generals ; the Order of Marching, Incamping, Fighting, A tacking and Defending Strong Plates, and the Method of Surprizing garrisons, or Armies, and of ... up of Quarters. Written in French by four able officers of long service and experience, and translated into English by an English officer. Illustrated with several copper cuts.
Date: 1707- Books
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The Perfection of military discipline[,] after the newest method; as practiced in England and Ireland, &[c.] or, The industrious souldier's golden treasury of knowledge in the art of making war. Containing, instructions for the exercising the pike and musket in all their postures, with the signs of the drum, by its beating the several points of war the exercise of grenadiers, horse, and dragoons: the explanation of the words of command, and how to be put in practice: the manner of drawing up in severa[l] forms of battel: the various firings and advantages to be gained th[ere]by: the several doublings, wheeling and dra... of battalions, squadrons of horse, &c. with the ...duct of armies in open, or enclosed contries, ... any occasion or emergency, how the detach... and officers, &c. ought to carry themselves. Ways of encampment; opening difficult passes, castles, passing bridges, opposing town, or fortresses. The method to be observed in garisons, and the manner of fortification, with that of besieging strong holds, &c. To which is added, as a second part, The art of gunnery; or, The complete engineer, shewing the practice of the ordnance, mortars, &c. with the manner of making and using fire-works for war, at sea and land.
Date: 1701- Books
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The farrier's and horseman's dictionary, being a compleat system of horsemanship. Containing I. Directions for the knowledge of horses, or instructions how to make a right judgment of their goodness or imperfections. II. For the breeding of horses; the choice and ordering of mares, stallions, and young colts. III. The feeding, dieting and ordering of horses for several services, and particularly of running, hunting, and war-horses. IV. The prognosticks, or signs of the diseases and maladies of horses. V. The best methods of curing all distempers and maladies incident to them. VI. With a large collection of the most approved recipe's [sic] of medicinies for each particular disease or malady, with the proper directions for their use. VII. An explanation of all the terms of art used in horsemanship, either in common riding, or in the academies for riding the great horse. VIII. An explanation of all those terms of art, either in the medicinal or chirurgical practice of farriers, &c. The whole digested into an easy alphabetical order, and useful for all, either farriers, or dealers in horses, whose business, or gentlemen, whose diversion and inclination calls them to an acquaintance with that useful and noble creature. By N.B. Philippos.
Philippos, N. B.Date: M. DCC. XXVI. [1726]- Pictures
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Two uniformed German soldiers carrying in a battle victim to a military doctor who waits in a barn. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 24295i- Books
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The Siege of Troy: or, The history of the trojan wars. Containing, the birth, life, glorious actions, and death of hercules of Greece. The valiant deeds of the famous hector prince of Troy. The rape of fair Helan of Greece; and the last destruction of Troy, by the stratagem of the wooden horse. And lastly, the arrival of brute into Britain, the conquering albion and his Giants, and the building Troy-Novant, now London.
Date: [1760?]- Pictures
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Seven uniformed senior British army staff, two of whom are mounted. Chromolithograph, c. 1880.
Date: 1880Reference: 24310i- Pictures
Five senior French army officers in military dress: two administrators, the chief surgeon, a pharmacist and a physician, ca. 1804. Coloured lithograph by G. David, ca. 1858, after A. de Marbot.
Marbot, Alfred de.Date: [approximately 1858]Reference: 24266i