Asian War and Battle Images

Afghan Wars (1839–1880)

Sole survior of Afghan massacre The sole survivor of an army, Dr. Brydon reaches Jellalabad alone	Hill tribes fire on Brits Hill tribesmen sniping a British force on the north-west frontier	Battle of Ghuzni The captain obligingly did as he was asked.
Battle at Jellalabad In another moment he would have been trampled under the feet of the Afghan cavalry.	Massacre at Khyber pass The retreat from Afghanistan, 1842	Ashley Eden Ashley Eden forced by the Bhutanese to sign a treaty

British Burmah Wars (1824–1825)

Burmese War Through pathless forests and fever-laden jungles

Carnatic Wars (1749–1751)

Elephants at Arcot War elephants charge the gates of the fort at Arcot	Clive-Plassey To fight or not to fight: Clive's solitary reflections before the Battle of Plassey	Storming of Geriah Storming of Geriah, 1756
Clive-Arcot Clive himself sprang to a gun

Wars of Genghis Khan  (1193–1225)

Mongols attacking a city The Governor on the Terrace

Mongals fighting the Persians Battle of the Boats

Indian Mutiny (1857–1858)

Indian Mutiny James Hills' brave charge	Rebellion breaks out Mungul Pandy	Battle of delhi Blowing up the Kashmir Gate
Battle of delhi Lieutenant Roberts finding General Nicholson wounded	Battle of delhi Hodson and his boar spear	Battle of cawnpore The massacre of Cawnpur
Relief of lucknow Outram and the Tiger	Battle of jhansi Jhansi	Highlanders at Lucknow The 93rd Highlanders clearing the Secunder Bagh before Lucknow
Indian Mutiny You will soon have no caste left yourself.'	Wife standing guard at Cawnpore Not one of their movements passed unnoticed by her.	Women at Lucknow The place was swarming with rats.
Young Havelock The young aide-de-camp did not waste time in arguing.	Cavanaugh disguised as a native. Often . . .he had felt that a terrible death was very near.	Massacre at Cawnpore The thatched roofs of the boats blazing furiously
Henry Lawrence See', he said, 'here is one of my monkeys.'	Delhi Delhi, 1853	Cawnpore Cawnpore in 1857
Lucknow Lucknow

Chino Japanese War (1894–1895)

Japanese landing troops Japanese landing troops

Chinese soldiers Chinese soldiers

Mongol Invasions of Japan (1274–1419)

Chinese-Japanese War A Japanese fight against the chinese at the time when Marco Polo first saw Japanese

Kublai Khan The Fleet of Kublai Khan

Japanese Invasion of Korea (1595)

Invasion of Korea Invasion of Korea

War of the Northern and Southern Empires (1339–1353)

Army Crossing Ford An army crossing a ford	Army Crossing a Mountain An army crossing a mountain	Army on the March An army on the march
Chinese invasion The Chinese invasion	Buddhist priest on warpath Buddhist priests on the warpath	Sumari marching Samurai marching
Warrior of Ashikga Period A warrior of the Ashikga period

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Porus Alexander's battle with Porus on the Jhelum

Mahratta Wars (1775–1803)

British garrison besieged Lieut. Pattinson recaptures the gun

Wars of the Mogul Empire (1526–1759)

Battle of Panipat I stay my hand while I count ten—no more.'

Nadir Shah The first sight that met his gaze was the bodies of his murdered countrymen.

Moslem Empires in India (1001–1298)

Battle of Peshawar The army of Ala-ud-Deen on the march

Ghazni Warrior A Ghazni warrior

Mysore Wars (1767–1799)

Tippoo Sahib Tippoo Sahib

Battle of Seringapatum Tipu himself stood firing coolly at his advancing foes

Opium Wars (1859–1883)

Taku Forts Taku Forts

Portugal Conquest of Indochina (1511–1739)

Vasco de Gama Vasco da Gama landing at Kalicut

Russo Japanese War (1904)

Russia-Japanese Tsushima: Togo, as if the day's fighting had not been enough, sent out his torpedo craft.

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Marco Polo in Battle

Marco Polo in Battle