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EVB2942899: General Henri-Philippe Petain, French World War 1 commander believed modern weaponry favored defensive tactics over offensive assaults that threw men against machine guns, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942903: Portrait of Henri-Philippe Petain, 1919 (painting) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942907: General William Robertson was Chief of the British General Staff, from January 1915 to the end of World War 1. Robertson was the only man to rise from Private to Field Marshal rank in the British army, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942922: Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg, Commander-in-Chief of the German armies from 1916-1918, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942945: British troops on the Sambre river bank to resist the German advance during the Battle of Charleroi (also called the Battle of the Sambre), on August 21, 1914 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942947: World War 1. Solitary Belgian soldier in an advanced post aiming a Maxim machine gun against invading Germans. 1914, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942955: World War 1. Germans using Belgian civilians as human shields. Ten miners returning from work were made to march at the head of the German column as it invaded a Belgian town. 1914, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942956: World War 1. Belgian prisoners gathered in a hollow by German invaders of Vise, Belgium. Germans retaliated for the Belgian resistance by shooting two men, burning buildings, and exacting forced labor. August 1914, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942968: World War 1. Australian soldiers entrenched during the Third Battle of Ypres. The town of Zonnebeke is in the distance. c. July to November 1917 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942969: World War 1. German prisoners being marched through the ruins of city of Ypres after the Battle of Menin Road, September 20-25, 1917. The Battle was part of the larger Third Battle of Ypres fought from July to November 1917, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942973: World War 1. At Landrecies, France, British machine guns fire on a German column advancing in a narrow street. This incident in the Allied (Belgium, Britain, and France) 'Great Retreat' wounded or killed about 800 German soldiers. Late August 1914 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942976: World War 1. Fort Boussois, Maubeuge, France, possibly after its capture by German forces on September 6, 1914 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942989: World War 1. In second week of September 1914, rain fell in torrent, flooding the trenches of the British north of the Aisne River. Following the Battle of the Marne, the First Battle of the Aisne marked the beginning of the Western Front stalemate and the entrenchment of German and Allied armies / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942991: World War 1. French chasseurs plodding over the freshly fallen snow in the Vosges Mountains to take up a new position against the Germans, who are threatening that gateway to France. c. 1914-15 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942993: World War 1. A German trenches in the Vosages Mountains. They incorporated boulders and logs in their defensive structures. c. 1914-18 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942995: World War 1. German outpost in the Hilly Region of Craonne, France, when the German advance toward Paris, resulted in the Third Battle of the Aisne. c. May 27, 1918, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942997: World War 1. Smiling British soldiers enter Lille, France. Photo was possibly taken in Oct. 1918, when British Forces liberated the town after four years of German Occupation, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943000: World War 1. Czar Nicolas II reviewing Russian troops. When Russia entered World War One, its army was the largest, but least modern of the major European powers. c. 1910-1915 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943010: World War 1. Russian prisoners captured at the Second Battle of Mazuruan Lakes, Feb. 7 -22, 1915. Germany suffered 16,200 causalities while Russia lost 56,000 killed, wounded and missing, plus another 100,000 taken prisoner, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943019: World War 1. The collage of Newspaper headlines and articles announcing the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty. It includes statements from President Wilson, King George V, and Premier Clemenceau. June 29, 1919 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943024: World War 1 in the Italian and Austria Alps. Austrian mountain troops in the Isonzo district, clinging to rocks and helping each other along by ropes. They are climbing over a mountain pass to surprise an Italian detachment of the other side. 1915, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943029: World War 1 Map of the Verdun Battlefield. 1917. Map indicates the Le Mort Homme, Hill 304, the Wood of the Crows and other famous spots. The map shows the lines when the German attack began, where it ended and where the armies rested after the Germans had been driven back in 1917, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943033: HRM Lusitania steered by tug boats at a New York City pier. Mar. 6, 1914 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943034: Prominent young women depart NYC for France on RMS Lusitania. c. 1915. Nona McAdoo (daughter of William Gibbs McAdoo, Treasury Sec. under Pres. Woodrow Wilson) with Katherine Britton, departing for France on the Lusitania, where they planned to serve as nurses / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943037: RMS Lusitania in New York harbor at end of a 1907 voyage. As the luxury liner docks, a crowd and taxis wait for passengers / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943044: German cartoon satirizing Britain outrage after the WW1 sinking of the Lusitania. Cartoon caption reads, 'Brave England. The only way to save our Battleships is to hide them behind our ocean liners.' By Paul Rieth, Jugend, May 21, 1915, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943049: Learn to adjust your respirator correct and quick. Don't breathe while doing it, and this won't happen to you., 1915 (poster), Thayer, W. G. (fl.1914-18) (after) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943050: Soldiers wearing WW1 gas masks, 1917-18, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943059: German soldier talking on telephone which is attached to a tree during WW1. 1914, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943062: Soldiers gargle with salt and water to prevent influenza. Sept. 24, 1918. Camp Dix, New Jersey, during the 1918-19 'Spanish' Influenza pandemic, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943065: German WW1 cartoon ridiculing the 'The Coat of the Holy Alliance.' 1915. It shows Britain and France arguing over how to work together (the coat) and end up fighting and then being captured by the Germans. From 'Jugend', May 1915, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943070: 'Le Poilu,' World War 1 painting by Raymiend Desvarieux. 1915-18. Le Poilu translates literally to 'hairy one,'; and was an informal term for a French World War I infantryman, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943095: Indo-Chinese workman at ammunition factory lathe in France during WW1. 1916-17. The French colonies of Tonquin, Cochin, and Saigon offered a recruiting field for war workers, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942168: International Space Station activity. Astronauts Sunita Williams and Michael Lopez-Alegria, suit up before their spacewalk. July 18, 2008 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942173: Construction work on International Space Station. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov in a six hour spacewalk. They moved the Russian built Strela-1 robotic arm for future construction work. They wore Russian Orlan spacesuits bearing blue stripes. Feb. 16, 2012 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942175: Artwork of the next generation NASA spacecraft, the Orion crew exploration vehicle, approaching the International Space Station in Earth orbit. Orion will be similar in shape to the Apollo spacecraft, but larger. The conical form is best for re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. October 2006 / Bridgeman Images
