Overwhelming Gallery

L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery

L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. How our gunners won the VC and silenced the fire of the German guns in face of overwhelming odds Retreat from Mons, 1st September 1914. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963). One of the most accomplished realistic illustrators and artists of his time, his wartime work was immensely popular and appeared in nearly every major news magazine, Allied, Neutral and Central Powers alike. Literally tens of millions of readers saw wartime events through the medium of Matania's weekly illustrations and, as such, he played an important role in defining people's mental image of what Great War battlefield scenes and soldiers looked like Date: 1914

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Recruiting for the War in 1914

Photograph showing the recruiting offices at Whitehall besieged by crowds of young men hoping to serve King and country, shortly after the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Lord Kitchener made an appeal for 500, 000 men to form a second army; 100, 000 of which were needed immediately. The response was overwhelming

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The Death of Gaston de Foix in the Battle of Ravenna on 11 April 1512 (oil on canvas)

The Death of Gaston de Foix in the Battle of Ravenna on 11 April 1512 (oil on canvas) State Hermitage Museum c. 1824 by Ary Scheffer. The Battle of Ravenna, fought on April 11, 1512, by forces of the Holy League and France, was a major battle of the War of the League of Cambrai in the Italian Wars. It was an overwhelming victory for the French

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