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War horses

Use of equines in combat

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Images referencing War horses

27 images from works
  • 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.
  • Seven uniformed senior British army staff, two of whom are mounted. Chromolithograph, c. 1880.
  • A uniformed German army doctor arriving at the scene of an accident. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
  • Crimean War: ambulance for the wounded. Wood engraving.
  • Boer War: a British officer's pony looking at the bones of a Boer's pony killed by a shell. Halftone, c. 1900, after S. S. Lucas after a photograph by E. Blake Knox.
  • War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.
  • War in Egypt, Egypt: searching for the wounded and dead after the Battle of Kassassin. Wood engraving.
  • Russo-Turkish War: wounded Russian soldiers being brought back to the rear at the siege of Plevna. Wood engraving by C.Roberts after I. Montagu, 1877.
  • Crimean War: frostbitten soldiers on their way to Balaclava. Wood engraving.
  • Boer War: Colonel Baden-Powell inspecting a sick horse at a military camp in Mafeking (Mahikeng). Process print by J.Swain & Son after G. Scott after D. Taylor.
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    War in Egypt, Egypt: searching for the wounded and dead after the Battle of Kassassin. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 20894i
    • Ephemera

    Holloway's Indian & colonial series : 1st Punjab cavalry : Holloway's pills & ointment.

    | Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
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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
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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.

    | Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder | Reference: 24446i
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    Koomaylee Pass, Ethiopia: watering-place during the Abyssinian expedition. Coloured wood engraving by J.M.

    | Date: 1868 | Reference: 20885i
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Related topics

Soldiers
Military uniforms
War victims
Ambulances
War - Relief of sick and wounded
Military Medicine
Battle casualties
Crimean War
War
Swords

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