Defensive weapon posters & prints

Shield Melanesian Melanesian

Peace and Plenty Binding the Arrows of War, 1614 Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen

Soldiers firing a cannon French School

Napoleon's troops defending a telegraph tower, c1815, (c1870) Unknown

Jemadar Khushyal Singh Indian School

King Gustav III of Sweden & a Soldier, Episode from the Russian War 1789 Pehr Hillestrom

Creusot quick-firing field gun, Boer armoury, c1900 Unknown

Achilles Playing the Lyre at the Arrival of the Envoys of Agamemnon, 1675-80 Gerard de Lairesse

The Lion Hunt, 1855 Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix

The Defence of the Trinity Sergius Cloister in Zagorsk, 1892 Sergei Dmitrievich Miloradovich

Spear Rider, offensive right Jacob de Gheyn II

Ballistic pendulum Benjamin Robins

Illustration Depicting Siege of Dublin Anonymous

Mortar of False Dmitriy I, 1605 Anonymous

Baton for the 'Giuoco del Ponte' Italian School

Big Bertha', the German gun that shelled Paris, World War I Nightingale & Co

American 14 inch railway gun, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, France Anonymous

Dagger found in the cellars of the Cross Keys Inn, Gracechurch Street, City of London Anonymous

Knapped axe or spear head Paleolithic Paleolithic

Cricket - Capital Practice for the Round Bowling of the Period Anonymous

The Spanish capture Fort Caroline Anonymous

370 Mortar in Action Henry Cheffer

Helmet and armour, c.1620 Unknown Artist

A calinga of Luzon in the Philippines English School

Langer Max, German rail mounted siege gun, Moere, near Ostend, Belgium, World War I Nightingale & Co

Defence of Petrograd by all our Forces, 1919 Alexander Apsit

Human figures with firearms Anonymous

Members of the Women's Volunteer Defence Corps being trained in rifle drill, World War II, 1940 Unknown

Gunners wearing gas masks, World War I Realistic Travels Publishers

The Defence of the Town, 1918 Apollinari Mikhailovich Vasnetsov

The Labyrinth, Arras, France, World War I Realistic Travels Publishers

German soldiers surrendering, Bullecourt, France, World War I Realistic Travels Publishers

Arms and armour from the Tower of London NC Goodnight

Member of the Aldgate Ward Association holding a rifle Anonymous

Belgian bicycle troops using Hotchkiss machine guns in Haelen, Belgium, August 1914 Montigny

Ceremonial Mace, probably for the 'Giuco del Ponte' Italian School