Sabre Gallery

Scotland for Ever'; the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo, 18 June 1815

Scotland for Ever'; the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo, 18 June 1815. The attack by the Royal Scots Greys cavalry regiment on the French 45th infantry was immortalised in this famous painting of 1881 by Lady Elizabeth Butler (1846-1933). The wife of a general as well as a popular Victorian painter, she persuaded the commander of the regiment to reconstruct the charge so she could make the painting. Some military historians doubt that the action actually took the form of the spectacular headlong charge depicted in the picture. What is known however is that the Scots Greys overpursued the French infantry, became split into disorganised small groups, and suffered heavy casualties at the hands of French cavalry formations before they were able to regain the British lines

© Ann Ronan Picture Library / Heritage-Images

Hawker Hector with Napier Dagger III engine

A detail of a Hawker Hector focussing on the Napier Dagger III H-24 air-cooled piston Engine. Developing 805hp the Dagger was the next step for D. Napier and Sons toward the ultimate British piston Engine of World War II, the Napier Sabre. Unlike the later Sabre the fast running Dagger was air-cooled and used conventional poppet-valves, rather than the troublesome sleeve-valves of the Sabre and large Bristol radial Engines. ( Engines of H-configuration had two crankshafts side-by side, both driving the same reduction gearbox to give one output. In some contemporary H- Engines, such as the Fairey Prince, the crankshafts each drove one half of a contra-rotating propeller and could be individually shut done.) Date: 1970s

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans

A kiel - A German officer in uniform, with helmet pointed on his head, personification of Germany, courts and kisses Marianne, the personification of France, wearing a dance dress. She says she's ready to do business with him, but nothing more

XEE4156781 A kiel - A German officer in uniform, with helmet pointed on his head, personification of Germany, courts and kisses Marianne, the personification of France, wearing a dance dress. She says she's ready to do business with him, but nothing more. On the wall of the room where they are, there is a map of Northern Germany, which refers to the Kiel Canal, made in 1895 - drawing by Georges Paul LEONNEC (1881-1940) for "Laughter" of 1895 by Lehonnec, Georges Paul (1881-1940); Private Collection; (add.info.: A kiel - A German officer in uniform, with helmet pointed on his head, personification of Germany, courts and kisses Marianne, the personification of France, wearing a dance dress. She says she's ready to do business with him, but nothing more. On the wall of the room where they are, there is a map of Northern Germany, which refers to the Kiel Canal, made in 1895 - drawing by Georges Paul LEONNEC (1881-1940) for "Laughter" of 1895); Stefano Bianchetti

© Stefano Bianchetti / Bridgeman Images