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[Jaguar]

Battle of Riachuelo

Brazilian steamers crushing the Paraguayan Navy in the Battle of Riachuelo during the Triple Alliance War.

War of the Triple Alliance was a South American war that lasted from 1864 to 1870.This war was fought between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, the Empire of Brazil, and Uruguay.

 

[Jaguar]

Brazilian Imperial Army marching in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, after the victory of the War of the Prata River, also known as War against argentinian generals Oribe and Rosas, in 1852.

 

[morris]

"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" painting by Kerry Sandhu

This painting was painted on ANZAC day 2020 and is named after the Eric Bogle song of the same name.
The red poppies signify the loss of servicemen and women, and the purple poppies signify the loss of service animals.

 

[BravoZulu]

"HMS King George V at the Battle of Jutland, 1916" by Paul Wright.

 

[Aqua vitae]

Final assault on the walls of Constantinople - 1453 by José Daniel Cabrera Peña

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Yx4q

 

[morris]

Improvised Christmas cards made by British submariners after the war. The right picture shows the process of receiving gifts from Santa Claus on a submarine

 

[BravoZulu]

'A Gallant Rescue' by Ebenezer Colls, HMS Endymion rescues a French two-decker, Spanish Coast, 1803

This painting is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and comes with a brief description of the event depicted.

Towards the close of the long French war, Captain the Hon. Sir Charles Paget, while cruising in the ‘Endymion’ frigate on the coast of Spain, described a French ship of the line in imminent danger, embayed among rocks upon a lee shore, bowsprit and foremast gone, and riding by a stream cable, her only remaining one. Though it was blowing a gale, Sir Charles bore down to the assistance of his enemy, dropped his sheet anchor on the Frenchman's bow, buoyed the cable, and veered it athwart his hawse. This the disabled ship succeeded in getting in, and thus 700 lives were rescued from destruction. After performing this chivalrous action, the ‘Endymion’, being herself in great peril, hauled to the wind, let go her bower anchor, club hauled and stood off shore on the other tack

There is some controversy about whether this 'rescue' ever actually happened. No mention of it is made in Endymion's log and the painting's description dates it to the end of the war, while Paget only commanded Endymion around 1803. Laughton - one of the leading naval historians of his time - dismissed it as 'improbable' in his 1893 DNB entry for Paget.

However, Paget's grandson, Revd Edward Paget reported in his 1913 memoir of his grandfather, that the story was well known in his family and that Paget had commissioned a different picture of the event in 1807 (the later dating being an error). As to why the event was not described in the log:

Sir Charles - who had other risky manoeuvres to his name - had not reported it officially since [it was] contrary to his specific instructions to destroy enemy shipping, let alone more general regulations. Edward also recalled his father's report that Sir Charles's particular worry in not doing so was how otherwise to account to the Admiralty for Endymion's loss of the two anchors involved.

 

[morris]

 

[BravoZulu]

USS Boston 1799 ​

In this painting by James A Flood, the second frigate Boston is depicted departing Boston Harbor, Massachusetts in 1804. The topsails have been set and the crew is in the process of loosing the courses. It’s a windy day, so the topgallants are still snugly furled. The outer or flying jib is set; the jib is furled; the forestaysail is set. The wind is off her starboard quarter.

USS Boston is a popular term only; technically speaking, American Colonial and United States ships of war did not carry the prefix USS until 1907.

 

[diman]

Cargo 200​

 

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[BravoZulu]

Action between U.S. Frigate Constitution and HMS Java, 29 December 1812. Painting in oils by Charles Robert Patterson

Depicts Constitution (at left), commanded by Captain William Bainbridge, exchanging broadsides with the British Frigate Java off Brazil early in the action. During nearly two hours of battle, Java was dismasted and had to surrender. Her damage was so severe that she had to be burned. Photographed in 1948, when the original painting was hanging on board the Presidential Yacht Williamsburg (AGC-369). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

 

[Conhoon]

The Apache Warrior Juh by Don Oelze

 

[NebrHogger]

Scene from one of the wars between Russian and Turkey. I'm not sure which one.

Naval battle between Russian and Japanese ships - possibly near Vladivostok.

 

[Aqua vitae]

Alp Arslan and his army while implying Crescent tactic (Pincer movement) against the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes of Byzantine. Battle of Manzikert, 1071.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Qb0kl

 

[Faheka]

Turkish liberation war
@Natiq Kamal

 

[Conhoon]

 

[morris]

Thomas the engine goes to war.

 

[Conhoon]

Fw 190 A 4 9JG 2 Siegfried Schnell by Zbigniew Kolacha

 

[uktabber]

WOW, that's a great piece of military art!!!