Kosciuszko was a Polish military engineer. Between 1776 and 1783, he fought on the American side in the American War of Independence.
View of the Tomb of Andrzej Kosciusko at West Point.
Category: Military
German Knights Family. Medieval Garb. 13th century
German knight in chain mail, sword and shield. Knight’s son in tabard over armour and sword. Noble lady in cotte.
Complete harnesses of soldiers in the Thirty Years’ War 1618 to 1648.
Three complete sets of half-armour from the first half of the 17th century. They show the most essential characteristics of the armour worn
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A Camel-Sowar of the 10th Bengal Lancers. India c. 1880.
THE men of the loth Bengal Lancers are mostly Sikhs; they have blue and red lance-pennons, blue kurta and blue cone-shaped turban.
A Chinese comedian who portrayed an enraged military officer
A sketch of a Chinese comedian performing his part before the the British Ambassador, December 19, 1793, at Canton.
Specimens of wheel-locks, gun-locks of 16th, 17th, and 18th century.
European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, by Herbert J. Jackson.
Armoury. Pikeman’s suit english, early 17th century.
The illustration shows a typical English pikeman’s corselet of the early seventeenth century, at a period when every infantry regiment consisted of musketeers and pikemen in varying proportions.
A military Mandarine (or Nobleman) of China. Portrait of Van-ta-zhin 1805.
His boots are of satin, with thick soles of paper: these are always worn by the mandarines and superior Chinese.
The Roman legionary. Reconstructed after reliefs of the Trajan’s Column.
Roman legionary. Reconstructed after reliefs of the Trajan’s Column.
Greek Military. Two warriors in armor of iron, bronze, and leather.
The two warriors in the picture are wearing or carrying most of the types of war material used by the Greeks for over a thousand years.
