Attacking Gallery

The Salvation Army Riots at Worthing, Sussex

These images show the Skeleton Army, opponents of the Salvation Army organised by those interested in Sunday drinking, rioting against one of the Salvation Army's religious Sunday processions. The members of the Salvation Army escaped into Montague Hall and hid there for the rest of the day. 1. Attack on Mr. G. Head's house and shop. 2. The Townhall 3. The Police Station 4. The mob attacking the Salvation Army Barracks. Date: 1884

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The Vindictive at Zeebrugge, 1918 (1919). Artist: Charles John De Lacy

The Vindictive at Zeebrugge, 1918 (1919). HMS Vindictive was a British Arrogant-class cruiser built at Chatham Dockyard. She was launched on 9 December 1897 and completed in 1899. In 1918 Vindictive was fitted out for the Zeebrugge Raid which took place on 23 April 1918. Most of the guns were replaced by howitzers, flame-throwers and mortars for the attack on the German-held Belgian port. Painting held at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. From The Wonder Book of the Navy for Boys and Girls, by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London, Melbourne and Toronto, 1919]

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The attack on the Peiwar Kotal by the 5th Gurkha Rifles, Afghanistan, December 1878, c

NAM237729 The attack on the Peiwar Kotal by the 5th Gurkha Rifles, Afghanistan, December 1878, c.1890 (oil on canvas) by Hamilton, Vereker Monteith (1856-1931); 346.1x236.5 cm; National Army Museum, London; (add.info.: After the declaration of war on Afghanistan in November 1878, a force under the command of Major General Frederick Roberts advanced along the Kurram valley towards Kabul. At Peiwar Kotal an enemy force of 18,000 men with 11 artillery pieces was found to be awaiting the invaders.
The Gurkhas are advancing with fixed yatagan bayonets Snider rifles up a wooded hillside; the Highlander in the foreground carries the newer Martini-Henry rifle. ); A© National Army Museum ; Scottish, out of copyright

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