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Battle of the Pyramids 21st July 1798 by Louis Lejeune. Napoleon with an army of 36,000 seized Malta on the 10th of June 1798 form the Knights of St John then sailed on to land west of Alexandria on July 1st. They seized Alexandria form the Mameluke ruler Ibrahim who fled into Syria. But the Mameluke military Commander Murad Bey was determined to stop Napoleon entering Cairo, so blocked the French advance at Embabeh on the left bank of the Nile near the pyramids. Under his command he had 40,000 troops but only 6,000 of these were the fierce fighting force of Mamelukes. On July 21st napoleon moved onto the Egyptian positions and Murad launched an all out attack with his cavalry. But the 6,000 Mamelukes were no match for the French infantry and artillery which fired volley after volley, devastating the Mamelukes. When the charge had failed the disorganized Egyptian infantry fled. With only 300 casualties, Napoleon marched into Cairo. |
Battle of Moscow by Louis Lejeune. No text for this item |
Scotland Forever detail by Lady Elizabeth Butler. Centre detail from the painting Scotland Forever showing the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo. |
The Despatch by H Bellange. No text for this item |
Gordons and Greys to the Front by Stanley Berkeley. The charge of the Scots Greys with the Gordon Highlanders holding onto the stirrups. Although this is a point of argument as to the improbability, both regiments concur that this action did happen. |
The Sentinel by H Bellange. Depicting a lone guard outside the Emperors tent, on the left Napoleon surveys the on-coming battle. |
The Battle of Wagram 6th July 1809 by Emil Adam No text for this item |
Joan of Arc by Sir John Gilbert. Saint Joan of Arc ca. 1412 - 30 May 1431. In France she is a national heroine and a catholic saint. Joan of Arc was a peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII. Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old. |
Allied Generals Before Sebastopol by Thomas Jones Barker. No text for this item |
Balaclava by John Charlton. Depicting the 4th and13th Light Dragoons during the Charge of the Light Brigade. |
Napoleons Peril at Brienne Le Chateau by Robert Hillingford. A dynamic work showing Napoleon mounted on his favourite horse Marengo, under a surprise attack from Russian Cossacks. |
Battle of Ulundi by Fayel The two forces meet on 4th July 1879 at Ulundi. Several thousand Zulus surrounded the British infantry which formed a square with the 17th Lancers at its centre. When the Zulus attack faltered the 17th Lancers were ordered to charge. Reproduced by Permission of the 17th/21st Lancers. |
Battle of Albuhera by William Barnes Wollen. Shows the Buffs resolute defense of the colours. By incredible heroism, the colours remained intact but only 85 out of the 728 Buffs survived the battle (16th May 1811) |
The Battle of Hanau by Horace Vernet. The campaign of Leipzig forced Napoleon to retire to the west of the Rhine, in the course of which he defeated a force of Germans at Hanau near Frankfurt on 30th October 1813. |
A Cavalry Skirmish by Theodore Gericault. Depicting French Cuirassiers capturing a Russian Standard. |
Napoleon by Ernest Crofts. No text for this item |
The Battle of Fontenoy by Felix Philippoteaux. The Duke of Cumberland, their colonel, commanding the allied forces; measured his strength with Marshal Saxe, who was then besieging Tournay. The First Guards were on the right of the centre, in the first line, when the Duke, furious at the failure on both wings, ordered the masses of troops to attack. The infantry dashed forward between the village and the redoubt, and as the British Guards advanced over a low ridge, and saw the French Guards before them, a scene occurred which has become legendary in military history. 'Messieurs les Anglais, tirez les premiers!' is a phrase that bespeaks the old fashioned chivalry with which foemen worthy of each other's steel loved to treat one another. The story of what occurred is variously given. 'The officers of the English Guards,' says Voltaire, 'when in the presence of the enemy, saluted the French by taking off their hats. The Comte de Chabannes, and the Duc de Biron, who were in advance returned the salute, as did all the officers of the French Guards. Lord Charles Hay of the King's Company, 1st Guards, stepped forward and took off his hat. Lord Charles Hay then pulled out a flask and drank a toast to the French, saying: 'Gentlemen of the French Guard, I hope you will wait for us today and not escape by swimming the Scheldt as you swam the Main at Dettingen.' Then he turned to his Company and said: 'Men of the King's Company, these are the French Guards and I hope you are going to beat them today.' Count D'Anteroche, lieutenant of grenadiers, replied in a loud voice: 'Gentlemen, we never fire first; we will follow you.' The French troops opened fire first but most of their shots went high. Then the British troops opened fire and nineteen officers and up to 600 men of the French Guards are said to have fallen at the first discharge, as the English pushed on, the enemy were borne back, and in the face of a terrific fire, the Guards drove them into their camp. Here, exposed to the tremendous reverse fire of the redoubt of Eu, the Guards according to Rousseau, formed themselves into a kind of square, and resisted repeated attacks of the cavalry of the French Guards and Carabineers. But unsupported and decimated by the withering hail of iron that assailed them, attacked by fresh troops and the Irish brigades of Clare and Dillon, beset as in a fiery furnace, the Guards at length began to retire. They did so in perfect order; but the First Guards left 4 officers, 3 sergeants and 82 men dead on the field, besides having 149 wounded in all. It was a defeat due to bad generalship and want of cohesion among allies, but its sanguinary episodes added new lustre to the great fame of the Guards. 'There are things, 'says Marshal Saxe, - or some say his friend General D'Heronville, in his Trait des Legions - 'which all of us have seen, but of which our pride makes us silent because we well know we cannot imitate them.' Fontenoy was a defeat for the British army. During the battle Lord Charles Hay was wounded but would later be in action again. |
Field of the Cloth of Gold by Sir John Gilbert. Depicts Henry VIII on his way to the Historic meeting with Francis I of France in 1520. |
Battle of Culloden. Reprint of coloured lithograph originally published by Laurie and Whittle |
Portrait of Napoleon by Jacques Louis David. No text for this item |
Les Ordonnances by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier. No text for this item |
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