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  • Visitors climb and descend the steep gradient of 225 steps, 43 metre high Waterloo Lions battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lions Mound Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands the Prince of Orange and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors on the top of  the 43 metre high Waterloo Lions battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lions Mound Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands the Prince of Orange and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors climb and descend the 225 steps, 43 metre high Waterloo Lions battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lions Mound Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands the Prince of Orange and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors on the top of  the 43 metre high Waterloo Lions battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lions Mound Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands the Prince of Orange and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-28-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Now a peaceful and idyllic farmland landscape but once the battlefield of the Battle of Flooden, on 28th June 2019, in Branxton, Northumberland, England. The Battle of Flodden Field was undoubtedly the most famous confrontation between the English and Scots ever fought on English soil. It took place eight miles to the north west of Wooler near the village of Branxton on September 9th, 1513 in the reign of Henry VIII. Approximately 10,000 Scots and 5,000 English were slaughtered.
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  • Now a peaceful and idyllic farmland landscape but once the battlefield of the Battle of Flooden, on 28th June 2019, in Branxton, Northumberland, England. The Battle of Flodden Field was undoubtedly the most famous confrontation between the English and Scots ever fought on English soil. It took place eight miles to the north west of Wooler near the village of Branxton on September 9th, 1513 in the reign of Henry VIII. Approximately 10,000 Scots and 5,000 English were slaughtered.
    flooden_battlefield-01-28-06-2019.jpg
  • One of three scarred Chestnut trees, remains of a wood on the Waterloo battlefield where French troops died in their thousands outside the walls of Hougoumont Farm, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The trees trunks are still pockmarked by musket fire with holes still embedded in the bark. The chateau became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • One of scarred Chestnut trees, remains of a wood on the Waterloo battlefield where French troops died in their thousands outside the walls of Hougoumont Farm, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The trees trunks are still pockmarked by musket fire with holes still embedded in the bark. The chateau became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The tombstone of Sergeant-Major Edward Cotton of the 7th Hussars who helped defend the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the battle of Waterloo, 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Cotton survived the battle and returned to the area to lead battlefield tours, dying in 1849, interred here then re-buried elsewhere in 1890.The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Three scarred Chestnut trees, remains of a wood on the Waterloo battlefield where French troops died in their thousands outside the walls of Hougoumont Farm, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The trees trunks are still pockmarked by musket fire with holes still embedded in the bark. The chateau became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The battlefield memorial inside the walled Hougoumont Farm, to the soldiers of Napoleons Grande Armee, killed at Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Remains of WW1 shell craters and German trenches at the Beaumont-Hamel battlefield memorial, France. The site is dedicated Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. During the First World War, Beaumont-Hamel was very close to the front lines of the conflict and saw heavy combat, especially during the Battle of the Somme which was the largest Allied offensive of the entire war. Beaumont-Hamel is a commune in the Somme department in Picardy in northern France.
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  • Remains of WW1 shell craters and German trenches at the Beaumont-Hamel battlefield memorial, France. The site is dedicated Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. During the First World War, Beaumont-Hamel was very close to the front lines of the conflict and saw heavy combat, especially during the Battle of the Somme which was the largest Allied offensive of the entire war. Beaumont-Hamel is a commune in the Somme department in Picardy in northern France.
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  • Standing near Hougemont Farm, Waterloo, Belgium, scene of some of the fiercest fighting on the battlefield on the day in 1815 when French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the (Iron) Duke of Wellington, we see the current Duke, Brigadier Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL, FKC (born in Rome on 2nd July 1915). He is a British hereditory peer and a retired officer in the British Army. When he succeeded his father as Duke, he was known as Marquess Douro but is now styled His Grace The Duke of Wellington. Making an occasional visit to the battlefields, he stands on a raw winter's day on the very landscape where his ancestor's brave British men fought off a fierce French attack, the Duke gazes out over the rolling hills that proved the undoing of Napoleon and which changed the course of European history.
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  • Standing near Hougemont Farm, Waterloo, Belgium, scene of some of the fiercest fighting on the battlefield on the day in 1815 when French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the (Iron) Duke of Wellington, we see the current Duke, Brigadier Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL, FKC (born in Rome on 2nd July 1915). He is a British hereditory peer and a retired officer in the British Army. When he succeeded his father as Duke, he was known as Marquess Douro but is now styled His Grace The Duke of Wellington. Making an occasional visit to the battlefields, he stands on a raw winter's day on the very landscape where his ancestor's brave British men fought off a fierce French attack, the Duke gazes out over the rolling hills that proved the undoing of Napoleon and which changed the course of European history.
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  • The tombstone of Captain John Lucie Blackman, an officer of the Coldstream Guards, killed by a French bullet in Hougoumont Farm, at the very end of the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A memorial for Captain Thomas Craufurd of the 3rd Guards who died at Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A landscape of fields and farming land looking in the direction of Napoleons massed French lines during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The landscape of fields and farming land including La Haye Sainte farm, the location of the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. La Haye Sainte has changed very little since it played a crucial part in the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.<br />
It was defended by about 400 British and German troops, hopelessly outnumbered by attacking French but held out until the late afternoon when they retired because their ammunition had run out. If Napoleon Bonapartes army had captured La Haye Sainte earlier in the day, almost certainly he would have broken through the allied centre and defeated the Duke of Wellingtons army. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exterior of the Chapel at the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Interior of the Chapel at the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • WW1 Ovillers cemetery, the resting place of allied and commonwealth war dead from the Somme, France. Surrounded by summer corn fields, the scene is peaceful and idyllic, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago.<br />
There are now 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 24 casualties believed to be buried among them. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
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  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery05-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery03-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery02-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • A detail from an ancient Assyrian stone carving 865-860BCdepicting an attack on an enemy town by a river, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Set among summer fields of tall corn, is the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France. Surrounded by summer crops, the scene is peaceful and idyllic with a setting sun, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
    WW1_cemetery04-20-08-2003_1_1_1.jpg
  • A detail of one ancient Assyrian stone panel carving 700-692BC showing archers attacking the town of Lachish near Jerusalem, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England. The relief was created for the walls of the great palace of the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, in Nineveh. Such scenes demonstrated the consequences of rebelling against the Assyrian empire. Sennacherib is shown as an invincible king presiding over a perfect victory.
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  • A detail of one ancient Assyrian stone panel carving 700-692BC showing archers attacking the town of Lachish near Jerusalem, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England. The relief was created for the walls of the great palace of the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, in Nineveh. Such scenes demonstrated the consequences of rebelling against the Assyrian empire. Sennacherib is shown as an invincible king presiding over a perfect victory.
    british_museum-24-11-04-2018.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
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  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary18-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary20-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary09-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
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  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary19-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary12-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary08-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary06-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary03-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Waxwork models of Napoleons generals incl Marechal Soult, centre, re-enact the night before the Battle of Waterloo forming an exhibit inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battles bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The 360 degree Panorma showing the Battle of Waterloo at the battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battles bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battles bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battles bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battles bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, we see visitors watching a re-enactment of a Civil War skirmish at the Gettysburg National Military Park. As a group of Confederate troopers parade on the battlefield, we see printed on a woman tourist's back, the quoted words spoken by President George W Bush on 9/11/01. His rallying call to the nation, answering the demand for vengeance against the 'evil-doers' is included in his rhetoric, reproduced on clothing and on messages displayed around the US. The American Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and was the one battle with the largest number of casualties: Between 46,000 and 51,000 killed in the three-days in July 1863.
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  • As a local dog-walker passes-by, we see a Royal Air Force Puma troop-carrying helicopter land briefly in Ruskin Park in the south London borough of Lambeth. It is believed that the RAF use various public spaces as part of emergency landing/evacuation location familiarisation in readiness of a future national emergency.  The Puma (registration XW216 from 230 Squadron, RAF Benson) is used as battlefield helicopters within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
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  • An Royal Air Force Puma helicopter takes off after only a few moments on the ground in Ruskin Park, a public space in the south London borough of lambeth. The RAF often land their helicopters here as part of air crew training and familiarisation - rumoured to be part of emergency evacuation/extraction landing locations around the capital. Otherwise, the Puma is used in the battlefield within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
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  • An Royal Air Force Puma helicopter takes off after only a few moments on the ground in Ruskin Park, a public space in the south London borough of lambeth. The RAF often land their helicopters here as part of air crew training and familiarisation - rumoured to be part of emergency evacuation/extraction landing locations around the capital. Otherwise, the Puma is used in the battlefield within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
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  • With homes beneath, a Royal Air Force Puma troop-carrying helicopter lands in Ruskin Park in the south London borough of Lambeth. It is believed that the RAF use various public spaces as part of emergency landing/evacuation location familiarisation in readiness of a future national emergency. The Puma (registration XW216 from 230 Squadron, RAF Benson) is used as battlefield helicopters within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
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  • A detail of a second world war Canadian veteran's chest, festooned with gleaming military campaign medals that symbolise an era of conflict, warfare and especially of survival. Seen as a close-up of polished silver, gold and zinc-alloy, we see only the upper body minus the face of this old soldier whose campaigns include the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944 because at the bottom of his rack of fine insignia is a badge denoting the Normandy Veterans Association. Elsewhere, a medal is worn for service in Palestine. The unseen gentleman wears a Canadian pin at the top and the contribution of his fellow-countrymen as members of the British Commonwealth is recognised in battlefield cemeteries around the world. But on this day, the 11th November, old soldiers like him march past London's Cenotaph to remember friends who did not return from war.
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  • A soldier from the British Royal Artillery guards a 12ft Fire Shadow missile on manufacturer MBDA's trade stand at the Farnborough airshow, shows visiiting guests to this exhibit the merits of its use and design. The so-called lurker bomb is designed to loiter above a battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets and also able to shadow British troops for up to ten hours or 100 miles, ready to take out enemy targets with surgical precision at a minute’s notice. . The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry and held every two years in mid-July at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England known as the home of British aviation, held since there since 1948. The show is usually attended by more than 1,300 exhibitors and 150,000 trade visitors.
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  • A soldier from the British Royal Artillery guards a 12ft Fire Shadow missile on manufacturer MBDA's trade stand at the Farnborough airshow, ready to show visiting guests to this exhibit the merits of its use and design. The so-called lurker bomb is designed to loiter above a battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets and also able to shadow British troops for up to ten hours or 100 miles, ready to take out enemy targets with surgical precision at a minute’s notice. . The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry and held every two years in mid-July at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England known as the home of British aviation, held since there since 1948. The show is usually attended by more than 1,300 exhibitors and 150,000 trade visitors.
    mbda_fireshadow04-09-07-2012.jpg
  • Abandoned neon pub sign is on the famous Marathonas Avenue near Nea Makri, the original route that the Athenian messenger Pheidippides ran in 490BC. The runner was sent to deliver word of the Greek victory over Persia at the Battle of Marathon. Running 240 km (150 miles) in two days to request help when the Persians landed, he then ran the 40 km (26 miles) from the battlefield Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon with the words 'We have won'. The story inspired the marathon and at the birthplace of modern sports at ancient Olympia, where for 1,000 continuous years, the ancient pagan festival of sport and debauchery were held. The 29th Olympics came home to Greece in 2004. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered even then, as now.
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  • A chicken walks past a wall that is covered with communist and patriotic slogans in the village of Duntang, in Daoxian County, Hunan Province, China, on 03 June, 2010. One says "to use Marxism to occupy the rural battlefield", another says "uphold the socialist path".  Duntang was connected to the main electricity grid and began to receive regular supply of electricity only since the beginning of 2009.
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  • The Earl Haig Memorial is a bronze equestrian statue of the British Western Front commander Douglas Haig photographed on a deserted Whiehall during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The shocking casualties and repeated battlefield failures of the First World War led to widespread criticism of its senior commanders. Of all the Allied generals, Haig was the most censured due to his unrelenting faith in the offensive and the huge losses incurred by imperial forces as a result.
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  • Unearthed and rusting WW1 shells from the Somme battlefield, piled up at Le Tommy Bar, Pozieres, France. On a sign in front, we see the statistics showing the amount of ordnance launched by an Australian artillery division during the notorious 1916 offensive. The Battle of the Somme was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the River Somme in France. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
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  • With homes beneath, a Royal Air Force Puma troop-carrying helicopter takes-off again after a brief landing in Ruskin Park in the south London borough of Lambeth. It is believed that the RAF use various public spaces as part of emergency landing/evacuation location familiarisation in readiness of a future national emergency.  The Puma (registration XW216 from 230 Squadron, RAF Benson) is used as battlefield helicopters within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
    ruskin_puma05-04-12-2015_1.jpg
  • Businessmen inspect the 12ft Fire Shadow missile on manufacturer MBDA's trade stand at the Farnborough airshow. An employee shows visiting guests to this exhibit the merits of its use and design. The so-called lurker bomb is designed to loiter above a battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets and also able to shadow British troops for up to ten hours or 100 miles, ready to take out enemy targets with surgical precision at a minute’s notice. . The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry and held every two years in mid-July at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England known as the home of British aviation, held since there since 1948. The show is usually attended by more than 1,300 exhibitors and 150,000 trade visitors.
    mbda_missile02-11-07-2012.jpg
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