bombardment

101 photos and 18 illustrations tagged bombardment, from 9 members of Flickr Commons.

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10_0029960 SDASM Image from SDASM Archives uploaded June 2023
Gun captured at Lagos, Bight of Benin in Quadrangle Portsmouth Dockyard from State Library of New South Wales uploaded July 2022
British Library digitised image from page 45 of "British Battles on Land and Sea" from British Library uploaded February 2017
British Library digitised image from page 563 of "British Battles on Land and Sea" from British Library uploaded August 2016
British Library digitised image from page 823 of "A Pictorial History of America; embracing both the northern and southern portions of the New World ... Illustrated, etc" from British Library uploaded August 2016
British Library digitised image from page 11 of "The Southern Rebellion: being a history of the United States from the commencement of President Buchanan's administration through the war for the suppression of the Rebellion. Containing a record of politic from British Library uploaded July 2016
British Library digitised image from page 517 of "The naval and military history of the wars of England, including, the wars of Scotland and Ireland, etc" from British Library uploaded May 2016
British Library digitised image from page 203 of "Battle-Fields of '61. A narrative of the military operations of the war for the Union up to the end of the Peninsular Campaign ... With illustrations, etc" from British Library uploaded January 2016
British Library digitised image from page 411 of "British Battles on Land and Sea" from British Library uploaded December 2015
British Library digitised image from page 105 of "Bruxelles à travers les àges. (Troisième volume ... par H. Hymans, P. Hymans.)" from British Library uploaded December 2015
British Library digitised image from page 76 of "The Wars of the 'Nineties. A history of the warfare of the last ten years of the nineteenth century ... With ... illustrations ... and plans by the author" from British Library uploaded September 2015
1A1182101_283348VI024 from Université de Caen Normandie uploaded September 2014
1A1182101_283348VI039 from Université de Caen Normandie uploaded September 2014
1A1182101_283348VI047 from Université de Caen Normandie uploaded September 2014
1A1182101_283348III018 from Université de Caen Normandie uploaded September 2014

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Library -- Louvain (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Carl Guderian said:
The library and much of the city of Louvain was set on fire by the occupying Germans in a five-day fit of paranoia between 25 and 30 August 1914, following a failed counterattack by Belgian forces from Antwerp. The library was only rebuilt in 1921, so that should narrow it down a bit. As these things go, yesterday I found this photo, dated 22 Sept 1914, for sale online: Link (won't be there much longer).
Hiring Librarians said:
Thanks for sharing this photo, I appreciate being able to get a sense of history. Just wanted to let you know I used it on my blog here: hiringlibrarians.com/2012/05/16/answer-in-a-pithy-manner/
Viejito said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_libraries_in_Leuven#The_Li...
Carl Guderian said:
Hiring Librarians That's perfectly OK!
Carl Guderian said:
Viejito Thanks for that. It's also a relief to find out that most of the good stuff survived the fire because it had been looted by Napoleon in 1797 and returned, presumably per the Congress of Vienna of 1815, to other institutions in Belgium.

Church of St. Pierre, Louvain (LOC)

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Kilted Cowboy said:
poor Louvain, the church was noted for the fire that destroyed it www.firstworldwar.com/battles/louvain.htm video of the sack of Louvain here www.firstworldwar.com/video/sackoflouvain.htm
swanq said:
www.firstworldwar.com/battles/louvain.htm According to this website, The Belgian city of Louvain was occupied by the Germans on August 19, 1914. The Belgians attacked on August 25 and the Germans retaliated by burning and looting the city for 5 days.

Chimney near Rheims hit by German Shell (LOC)

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bior said:
According to Wikipedia, "[h]ostilities in World War I greatly damaged the city. German bombardment and a subsequent fire in 1914 did severe damage to the cathedral. The ruined cathedral became one of the central images of anti-German propaganda produced in France during the war, which presented it ... as evidence that German aggression targeted cultural landmarks of European civilization." I must also commend the accuracy of the German gunner who managed to his such a small target.
Art Siegel said:
Agence Meurisse original photo on Gallica site, with caption: Une cheminée d'une usine de Reims traversée par un obus Pub. Date 1914 gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9042261d
Anne (LOC P&P) said:
artolog: Thanks for providing us with the source and date for this photograph. We'll include this information next time we update the description.

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