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Brian Palmer Art Postcards |
  | The 27th Foot (Inniskilling) at Waterloo by Brian Palmer (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Heroically standing their ground against the French Artillery the 27th were described after the battle as lying dead in a square. ...... | |
  | The Battle of Thermopylae by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Depicting the last stand of the 300 Spartans who fought to the death against an overwhelming Persian Army. ...... | |
  | Battle of Zama by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Hannibal had invaded Italy by taking his army including war elephants across the mountains and into northern Italy. He defeated the Romans in three major battles including Cannae, but he did not take Rome when he had the chance. Once Rome had stren...... | |
  | Defence of Rorkes Drift by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Men of the 24th Foot defend Rorkes Drift against an overwhelming number of Zulus near the barricades, and the hand to hand fighting. Surgeon Reynolds can be seen attending a wounded soldier. ...... | |
  | Battle of the Little Big Horn (General Custer) by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Last stand of General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn. General George Armstrong Custer and the 7th cavalrys last stand at the battle of Little Big Horn. ...... |
  | The Battle of Agincourt by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The French Knights attack Henry Vs English infantry lines and are repelled during the Battle of Agincourt, a victory for Henry V. ...... | |
  | The Revolt of Owain Glyndwr. The Battle of Pilleth 22 June 1402 by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | In 1401 Owain Glyndwr began a campaign for Welsh independence. He was crowned Prince of Wales at Carrog on the banks of the Dee and set up a parliament at Machynlleth. In 1402 Edmund Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore, who had been sent by Henry IV to put do...... | |
  | Battle of Culloden by Brian Palmer (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The Jacobite charge which broke through the ranks of Barrells regiment is counter charged by four British regiments including the 48th Legoniers regiment. ...... | |
  | The Battle of Stirling Bridge by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | After Edward 1st proclaimed himself King of Scotland Sir William Wallace rallied Scots in the South West and began attacking English occupying forces around Scotland. Edward I ordered the Earl of Surrey to put down the rebellion, after taking the su...... | |
  | Battle of Marathon by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The Battle of Marathon 490 BC during the Persian Greek Wars. King Darious I of Persia sent his son in law Mardonius to invade Greece in 492 BC. The Persian Forces conquered Thrace and Macedonia before their fleet was devastated by a storm. Mardonia ...... |
  | Battle of Isandhlwana, 22nd January 1879 by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Last stand of the 24th South Wales Borderers at Isandhlwana during the Zulu War. The battle of Isandhlwana, a Zulu victory over the British forces on 22nd January 1879 about 100km north of Durban. Lord Chelmsford led a column of forces to seek out ...... | |
  | Battle of Stamford Bridge by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | King Harold defeats the Viking invaders at Stamford Bridge before his long march south to face William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings....... | |
  | The Battle of Bannockburn by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Robert the Bruces Scots army stand fast as the English knights attack. Robert the Bruce succeeds in defeating the English army at Stirling. With the full might of Englands army gathered before the besieged Stirling Castle, Edward II Plantagenate is...... | |
  | Alexander the Greats Victory at Hydaspes River by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Alexander the Greats Victory at Hydaspes River During the Macedonian conquests in 326BC at the tributary at Hydaspes (now Jhelem) of the Indus River, King Porus and his Indian army blocked Alexander the Greats advance with some 50,000 troops leavi...... | |
  | Battle of Flodden 9th september 1513 by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | While King Henry VIII was invading France, King James IV of Scotland crossed the Tweed into Northern England with a Scots Army of 50,000. With the majority of the English army away in France, the defense of England was left to Thomas Howard Earl of S...... |
  | Battle of Nagashino by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | When Portuguese traders took advantage of the constant violence in Japan to sell the Japanese their first firearms, one of the quickest to take advantage of this new technology was the powerful daimyo Oda Nobunaga. In 1575 the impetuous Takeda Katsuy...... | |
  | Battle of Ulundi by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | After coming out of the British Square The 17th Lancers charge by the 58th Regiment. The Battle of Ulundi took place at the Zulu capital of Ulundi on 4th July 1879. Ulundi became the last battle to be fought during the Zulu war and the British vict...... | |
  | Battle of Crecy by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Battle of Crecy 26th August 1346. On 12th July Edward III landed in Normandy with his army and marching north plundered the countryside. King Philip VI assembled an army to stop Edward and tracked them across the Somme River. When Edward reached Cré...... | |
  | Battle of Bosworth by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | In 1485, the Lancastrian contender for the throne of England, Henry Tudor, sailed from France with a small force of mainly continental mercenaries determined to wrestle the crown from Richard III. Gathering many supporters along the way he eventuall...... | |
  | The 12th (Suffolk Regiment) at the Battle of Minden. 1st August 1759 by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | During the Seven Years War (1756 - 63) a large French army of 52,000 men commanded by Marshal Contades moved from the Rhine to take Minden and threaten the Electorate of Hanover, one of Britains allies in the war. Ferdinand of Brunswick commanding a...... |
  | The Battle of Kadesh - circa 127 BC by Brian Palmer (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | In 1275 BC there were two superpowers in the ancient near east, in the south the Egyptians and in the north the Hittites from Anatolia in modern day central Turkey. A clash between these two powers was inevitable. The Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II mar...... | |
  | Charge of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of the Balaclava by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | After taking horrendous casualties during the infamous charge, the 17th lancers were the first to reach the Russian guns at the end of the Valley. From the 673 men who started the charge, 113 men were killed and many others wounded. The Light Brigad...... | |
  | Charge of the Dutch Lancers against the British Squares at Waterloo by Brian Palmer. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Mistaking the withdrawal of wounded troops from the plateau of Mount St John for a general retreat , Marshal Ney ordered 5000 heavy and light cavalry to charge the allied position. Far from retreating, Wellington was in fact reinforcing his beleaguer...... |
