In 1812, following the battle of Krasny, Marshal Ney and 3000 men were cut off by 60,000 Russians. After trying to force their lines, they crossed the Dniepr river and covered 90 km of open ground, surrounded by cossacks and rejecting 3 offers to surrender. 800 men rejoined the army. By Adolphe Yvon
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A Finnish soldier helping farmers to harvest the wheat (Finland 1941) [1769x2867]
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Valerie Bertinelli and Eddie Van Halen getting married in 1981
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“Scotland Forever!” Oil on Canvas by Lady Butler. Depicts the charge of the Scots Greys on the French infantry at Waterloo, 18 June 1815.
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USS Essex (LHD-2) seen from Indian navy ASuW corvette INS Kora (P61) in the Eastern Indian ocean. [1024x577]
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King Neptune oversees a “Line crossing ceremony” for crossing the Equator on USS Lexington CV-16 in Early 1944. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are called Shellbacks or Sons of Neptune. Those who have not yet crossed the Equator are nicknamed Pollywogs. [856x1168]
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One of the only known photos of Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt together in person, 1915. (2208x2723)
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JonBenét Ramsey seen here with her mother Patsy Ramsey in one of her last photos. Dec 25,1996. She would be found dead the following day on Dec 26,1996 in a case that remains unsolved to this day.[576x753]
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German war criminals laugh at a translation mistake during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945. (962 x 709)
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Indian soldiers scouting Pakistani positions in Kashmir during the 1999 Kargil War [600 x 434]
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Actor Steve Buscemi during his service in the Engine Co. 55 in Manhattan’s Little Italy in the 1980s. [583 × 900]
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A Vietnamese female fighter captured an American pilot , Dewey Wayne Waddell in 1967. [960x952]
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, some sailors were trapped on the USS West Virginia and the USS Oklahoma. One group survived 16 days, which they tallied on the wall of the storeroom where they were trapped. No one wanted guard duty because of the incessant banging and screaming. [999x755]
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Scale model of the French battleship Richelieu, Musée national de la Marine, Paris [1955x815]
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The 15,000th Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter built, November 1944. The aircraft was given a special paint scheme with the national insignia of all the countries which used Curtiss aircraft [640x515]
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Scots highlanders in a schiltron hold their ground against English knight Sir William Deyncourt during the battle of Bannockburn, 23 June 1314 (by Angus McBride)
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"KILL YOUR LOCAL RAPIST" Fascist radical feminist poster 2021
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Kevin Carter Pulitzer Prize-winning photo Starving Child and Vulture | 1993 (2560x1670)
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Dead Italian soldier holding a photograph of his child, north Africa, 1940, WWII [596x600]
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