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Drawing representing the departure of the German troops from Nancy, France.

Drawing representing an American journalist writing on the British defeat.

Images representing the life of a war correspondent.

Drawing representing the evacuation of German civilians and the arrival of the French troops at Toul.

Drawing of the plan of attack on Elmina during the Ashantee War.

Drawing of the King of the Ashantee and his executioners.

Drawing of the burial of Général Douiane by the Germans.

Drawing representing the Prussian naval base on the Baltic.

Presents a selection of almost 4000 images from "The Canadian Illustrated News," the popular 19th-century magazine which was published from 1869 to 1883. Its illustrations depicted people, places, and events across Canada and around the world. Here they have searched their collection for images dealing with military history.

Drawing depicting a landscape in Spain sometime during the period of the Carlist War.