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J.C. Turks

(1938-2000)

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The photos and pictures are listed in chronological order groups

  • Louis XIV. The life of the French sovereign who knew how to not only change the European history, but also its artistic taste, technology and, in general, culture.
    • Portrait of young Louis XIV
    • Photo of the Gallery of the Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles
    • The palace of Varsailles
    • Anonymous portrait of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough
  • Napoleon. The life, the military campaigns, the misteries.
    • Napoleon during the siege of Toulone
    • Napoleon in 1796
    • Napoleon after his crowning
    • The routed Napoleonic troops in Russia
    • Napoleon runs away from Elba's Island
    • Napoleon during the 1814 campaign
    • Scene of the Waterloo battle
    • The death of Napoleon
  • The Eastern War (1853-56). The war among the Allied Forces (France, Great Britain, Ottoman Empire and Piedmont) against Russia for the Dardanelles Straits.
    • A war meeting among the allied heads
    • A camp of the English Guard near Balaclava's Bay
    • English troops during a period of rest
    • French General Bosquet and his Staff
    • Historical picture of the Port of Balaclava
    • James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Count of Cardigan
    • The destroyed defenses of the Tower of Redan
    • A nurse assists a French wounded soldier
  • The Tired Emperor . The life of the Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph who conducted the fates of the empire since 1848 until its nemesis during the First World War.
    • A portrait of Francis Joseph
    • A portrait of Elisabeth of Austria, called Sissi
    • Kaiser William II of Germany
    • Francis Joseph and William II in Berlin
    • The Austrian minister Aehrenthal
    • The King of England, Edward VII
    • The Kronprinz of Austria, Francis Ferdinand
    • The 3 aggressors of Sarajevo: Ciganovic, Cabrinovic and Princip
  • XIX Century British Politicians NEW!
    • Chamberlain
    • Disraeli
    • Gladstone
    • Rosebery
    • Salisbury
  • The Anglo-Boer War . The conflict that upset the South Africa at the beginning of the 20th century, furnishing a test bench for the modern weapons that would have been subsequently used in World War 1.
    • A Boer guerrillero
    • Boer volunteers in a camp
    • English heavy artillery
    • English military hospital in South Africa (1900)
    • Boer Prisoners of War (1901)
  • Italy in the Great War. The motivations, the development and the consequences of the World War I in Italy.
    • Italian column of mules
    • 'Bersaglieri' with bycicles
    • Women at work in a factory
    • Supply column in the Italian mountains
    • The city of Vicenza after a bombardment
    • Some Italian soldiers, while they are resting
    • The Aviation hero Francesco Baracca
    • Italian infantrymen in a trench.
  • The Battle of the Jutland. The greatest maritime battle of World War 1.
    • The American cruise ship Lusitania
    • The British battleship Agincourt
    • The British battleship Bellerophon
    • The British Battleship Royal Sovereign
    • The German battleship Frederick der Grosse
    • The German battleship Markgraf
  • Small Titans . The first armored battle of the history during World War 1. The first clash among tanks happened on the western front in proximity of Villers Bretonneux among British and German units. The strength, the planning and the curiosities of the invention of this modern weapon.
    • Detail of the tank "Little Willie"
    • British tank model Mk II
    • British tank model Mk IV
    • French tank made from Renault
  • Those Rash Men in the Flying Machines The first steps of the World Military Aviations.
    • Triplane Fokker DR I
    • RAF BE 2c
    • Monoplane Fokker E
    • The engine Hispano Suiza A mounted on the Spads S.VII
    • The Baron Manfred von Richtofen's funeral
    • A Sopwith F1 Camel
    • A triplane Caproni Ca.42
    • Zeppelin L3
    • Zeppelin L48
  • From the Ashes of an Empire. Mustafa Kemal, the man who changed the destiny of the Turkish people.
    • Mustafa Kemal
    • A military parade in Ankara to celebrate the victory at Smirne
    • Mustafa Kemal and his wife
    • Kemal's funeral in 1938

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