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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.
Hippolyte LecomteDate: 1820Reference: 24451i
Ephemera
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Private's billet : Blairgowrie, 18... Mr... for the period of ... night ... billet master : if lodging is not provided, give three-pence per night to each man, and return the billet.
Date: [Before 1900]
Pictures
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Judith puts the head of Holofernes into her maid's bag. Etching (?) after H. Goltzius.
Hendrik GoltziusReference: 20970i
Books
Dictionary of military abbreviations : British-Empire-Commonwealth / by B.K.C. Scott.
Scott, B. K. C. (Brian Keith Colin)Date: 1982
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Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.
Date: 14 April 1855Reference: 24466i
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Roman military punishment showing the breaking of the legs of slaves or persons of an inferiour level.
William Hogarth
Books
Extracts from journals of John Francis Smet, surgeon, 8th Hussars, 1815-1824 / edited by J.B. Neal.
Smet, John Francis, approximately 1773-1840.Date: [1951]
Books
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The Robertson court martial : authentic report of the trial (by Court Martial) of Captain A.M. Robertson, Fourth (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, held at the Royal Barracks, Dublin, on the 6th February 1862 and following days. With portraits.
Date: 1862
Pictures
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An aggressive colonel barging his way into a doctor's consulting-room demanding to have his liver inspected. Reproduction after a drawing by G.L. Stampa, 1926.
George Loraine StampaDate: 1926Reference: 15464i
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Russo-Japanese War: rows of wounded soldiers in a temporary dressing station at Hsuchiakou, China. Collotype, c. 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 23906i
Digital Images
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Example of two types of beating in Roman military punishment showing a beating either by sticks or rods
William Hogarth
Digital Images
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The Roman miliary punishment of Humiliation either by taking away the Military Belt or Girdle or by making the offender do a task that is beneath them, more a temporary or part of a punishment
William Hogarth
Books
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To the officers of the Army : the singular and interesting case of Patrick Dillon, Esq. late surgeon of the 64th Regiment of Foot, who was lately dismissed from his Majesty's service in consequence of having sent a challenge to Robert Hedges, Esq. ... for defamation on the late court-martial which was held for the trial of Major Browne.
Dillon, PatrickDate: 1787
Ephemera
Stockport Rifle Corps : those who have already entered into this Corps, and all others who are desirous of doing so, are requested to attend at the Unicorn Inn, in the Hillgate, on Monday the 26th of September inst., at three in the afternoon, in order to consider of, and form resolution for, the government of the Corps : 24th September, 1803.
Stockport Rifle Corps.Date: 1803
Digital Images
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Example of Roman military punishment: Banishment
William Hogarth
Books
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Memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission and correspondence regarding the prevalence of venereal disease among the British troops in India.
Great Britain. War Office. Army Sanitary Commission.Date: 1897
Books
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Remarks on army surgeons and their works / by Charles Alexander Gordon.
Charles Alexander GordonDate: 1870
Ephemera
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In arduis fidelis : with best wishes for Christmas and the new year from / Royal Army Medical Corps.
Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical CorpsDate: [between 1960 and 1969?]
Pictures
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A liqueur label illustrated with French soldiers surrendering to foreign troops. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
Reference: 25702i
Digital Images
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Example of Decimation, a Roman military punishment where every tenth man sufferes death
William Hogarth
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.
Georg Philipp Rugendas the ElderReference: 24446i
Ephemera
Stockport, 17th Oct., 1803 : a requisition, signed by several inhabitants of this town, being addressed to us, to convene an early meeting, for the purpose of deliberating on the necessity of forming a corps of reserve in the town ... to resist the enemy, should he be so successful as to penetrate into the interior of the country to the manufactories ... / C. Prescot, J. Philips.
Prescot, C.Date: 1803
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Sarawak: a line-up of armed Sarawak Rangers. Photograph.
Reference: 30178i
Pictures
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A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 24080i
Digital Images
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Example of a Roman military punishment, soldiers being sold into slavery and servitude
William Hogarth