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Body armor, Left and Right Forearm Defenses (Vambraces)

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Pair of Arm Defenses - Public domain museum image. A silver vase sitti...

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Shaffron and Crinet (Horse's Head and Neck Defenses)

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Shirt and Leg Defenses of Mail, India

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Body armor, Pair of Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses)

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Pair of Neck Defenses (Crinet) and Breast Defense (Peytral) from a Hor...

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Pair of Neck Defenses (Crinet) and Breast Defense (Peytral) from a Hor...

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Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

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Shaffron and Crinet (Horse's Head and Neck Defenses)

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Body armor, Three Shoulder Defenses (Sodē)

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Body armor, Three Shoulder Defenses (Sodē)

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Body armor, Pair of Elbow Defenses (Couters)

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Body armor, Pair of Thigh and Knee Defenses

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Body armor, Pair of Thigh and Knee Defenses

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Pair of Arm Defenses - Public domain dedication museum photo

A large silver vase with a handle and a small bowl with a hole in the middle, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Body armor, Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses)

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Body armor, Left and Right Forearm Defenses (Vambraces)

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Body armor, Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses)

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Body armor, Left and Right Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

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Body armor, Left and Right Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

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Body armor, Left and Right Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

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Body armor, Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses)

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Body armor, Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses)

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Body armor, Pair of Elbow Defenses (Couters)

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Body armor, Left and Right Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

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Body armor, Pair of Tournament Pauldrons (Shoulder Defenses)

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Arm Defenses, 16th century - Public domain dedication museum photo

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Body armor, Pair of Thigh and Knee Defenses

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Body armor, Pair of Tournament Pauldrons (Shoulder Defenses)

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Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

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Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with Knee Defeneses (Poleyn)

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Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with knee defenses (Poleyns)

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Helmet, Cuirass, and Pair of Arm Defenses

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Body armor, Pair of Couters (Elbow Defenses)

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Pair of Vambraces (Arm Defenses) from a Costume Armor

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Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

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Helmet, Cuirass, and Pair of Arm Defenses

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Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

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Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

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Body armor, Pair of Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses)

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Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

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Photo of Arm Defenses, 16th century - Public domain dedication

Both arms marked by Domenico Negroli (Italian, Milan, active 1492–ca. 1516) Milan

Pair of Tassets (Thigh Defenses) Belonging to an Armor for Field and T...

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Arm Defenses for a Costume Armor

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Top Lames of Vambraces (Arm Defenses) from a Costume Armor

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Pair of Vambraces (Arm Defenses) from a Costume Armor

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Body armor, Pair of Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses)

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Body armor, Pair of Pauldrons (Shoulder Defenses)

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Body armor, Pair of Pauldrons and Arm Defenses

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Body armor, Pair of Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses)

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Cuirass (Armor for the Torso and Hips) and Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses...

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Cuirass (Armor for the Torso and Hips) and Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses...

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A plan of George Stadt Camp near the River Guantamano in the island of...

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A plan of English Harbour; with the King's yard and carreening wharfe,...

Scale ca. 1:3,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially and by shading and hachures. Soundings shown in fathoms and feet. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 127 Includes index and "A scale of f... More

Plan of the Isle aux Noix, in the River Richelieu, and Province of Can...

Scale 1:2,400; 200 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Annotated on verso: No. 4. Plan of the Isle aux Noix. LC Maps of Nor... More

Cantonment of the forces in North America 11th. Octr. 1765.

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows size of cantonments. "N.B. The particular quarters of the following regiments is not ascertain'd, viz. the 34th up the Mississipi, in the Ill... More

Cantonment of His Majesty's forces in N. America according to the disp...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes penciled note and listing of the composition of "Detachments." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 118 Available also through the Library... More

Map of the environs of Boston. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:46,000. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. From The Remembrancer, 3d ed. 1775. Shows camp and lines of Generals Putnam, Ward, and Thomas and batteries and fortifications in the Boston area. A... More

A topographical chart of the bay of Narraganset in the province of New...

Scale ca. 1:50,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Inscribed "To the Right Honourable Hugh Earl Percy ... with His Lordship's permission ... by ... Wm. Faden." Includes text,... More

Plan von Rhode Island, und deren dem comando des Herrn General Majors ...

Scale ca. 1:50,000. Relief shown by hachures. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Includes index to encampments, fortifications, and naval positions. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1014 Available also through the Li... More

[Map of defenses of New York Island from Fort Washington to Fort Indep...

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A topographical chart of the bay of Narraganset in the province of New...

This topographical map of Narragansett Bay was based on surveys conducted in 1764 and 1774 by military engineer Charles Blaskowitz. Blaskowitz worked with Samuel Holland to survey the northern Atlantic coast. L... More

Plan of Carillon ou [sic] Ticonderoga : which was quitted by the Ameri...

Shows military installations and British troop positions in the vicinity of Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.) at the time of the Battle of Saratoga (Oct. 1777). Relief shown by hachures. Parts of index in mixed English a... More

A map of the bay of Narraganset with the islands therein and part of t...

Scale ca. 1:63,360. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by soundings. Includes "References" to the fortifications and defenses of the region. LC Maps of North America,... More

A topographical chart of the bay of Narraganset in the province of New...

Scale ca. 1:50,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings and form lines. Inscribed "To the Right Honourable Hugh Earl Percy ... with His Lordship's permission ... by ... Wm. Faden." Includes text... More

A topographical chart of the bay of Narraganset in the province of New...

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L'escadre françoise entrant dans Newport sous le feu des batteries et ...

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and gilt. Includes index to defenses and points of interest. Note at bottom: Nta. les anglois brulereus ou coulereus a Rode Is... More

Carte des positions occupeés par les trouppes Américaines apres leur r...

Relief shown by hachures. Some place names in English. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Includes descriptive index to defenses. On ... More

[Plan of Paulus's Hook and fortifications.

Scale ca. 1:2,600. Title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Title in pencil: Paulus Hook, No. 46. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. Shows positi... More

Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie : ou un détachement ...

Covers Barren Hill and vicinity (Whitemarsh Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa.) with Chestnut Hill and Germantown. Relief shown by hachures. Place-names in English. Pen-and-ink, watercolors, wash, and lead pencil. Secti... More

[Plan of Paulus's Hook and fortifications.

Scale ca. 1:2,700. Relief shown by shading. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Shows position of "57th Rt." Annotation, in pencil: By Montrésor, 1779? LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1... More

Plan de Rhode Islande, les differentes operations de la flotte françoi...

Relief shown by hachures. Some place names in English. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Includes descriptive index to defenses. On ... More

Plan de Rhode Island et les differentes operations de la flotte-franço...

Scale ca. 1:51,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower right. In upper margin: No. 17. Includes descriptive index to... More

Plan of the redoubts at Richmond on Staten Island, 30th October 1779.

Scale 1:480; 40 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and brown wash. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1201 Available al... More

[Penobscot River and Bay, with the operations of the English fleet, un...

Scale ca. 1:46,000. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north to the right... More

Plan de la position de l'armée françoise autour de Newport et du mouil...

Scale ca. 1:7,250. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Includes index to fortifications, French army camps, a... More

[Plan de la ville, du port, et de la rade de New-port et Rhode Island....

Scale ca. 1:26,000. Title from manuscript label on verso as originally mounted. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications, fields of fire, and position of French nav... More

Plan de Rhodes-Island, et position de l'armée françoise a Newport.

Scale ca. 1:26,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by shading. Shows fortifications, fields of fire, and position of French naval vessels. Oriented with north to the right.... More

Plan de la ville, port, et rade de Newport, avec une partie de Rhode-I...

Scale ca. 1:26,200. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by form lines and shading. Shows fortifications, fields of fire, and positions of French naval vessels. Oriented with nor... More

A plan of Paulus Hook with the road to Bergen and parts adjacent in th...

Scale ca. 1:4,500. Relief shown by shading. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north to the right. Also shows locations of rebel works in ruins. Authorship attributed to B. Mo... More

Plan of Paulus Hook shewing the works erected for its defence, 1781-2 ...

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Plan des rivières de Berbiche, Demerary, Essequebe : pour servir à la ...

Shirt and Leg Defenses of Mail, India

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Map of Salem Neck Showing Defenses - Public domain map

"Fortifications Map File" Plans of Military Forts

[Map of Charleston Harbor showing defenses. 186-]

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 368a.5 Printed in upper margin: Peter Adams Co.'s.-vellum map. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web s... More

[Plan of Fort Sumner, Montgomery County, composed of Redoubts Cross, D...

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Band of the 107th United States Colored Troops (USCT) at Fort Corcoran...

Band of the 107th United States Colored Troops (USCT) at Fort Corcoran (Arlington Line Defenses, Virginia). The regiment was organized in Louisville, Kentucky in May 1864. The 107th was transferred east and se... More

Fort Ethan Allen, Arlington Line, Virginia

Battery M, 2nd New York Heavy Artillery, at Fort Ethan Allen, August 1865. General John G. Barnard described the work as such: “The two works at the Chain Bridge, viz, Forts Marcy and Ethan Allen, form no part... More

Fort Corcoran, Arlington Line, Virginia

Federal soldiers posing near Fort Corcoran's sallyport (rear entrance). Fort Corcoran was one of the first forts constructed as part of the Defenses of Washington in May-June 1861. It formed part of a section... More

Brigade Hdqs. at Fort Lincoln, Defenses of Wash., D.C.

No. 908. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

Plan of Fort Donelson and outworks : [Tennessee] /

Shows the fort, town of Dover, fortifications, "Enemies' tents", "Enemies' log huts", woods, and areas of fallen timber. Relief shown by hachures and form lines. At lower right in handwriting: Engr. Dept. July ... More

Sketch showing the relative positions of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson ...

Shows the forts, roads, outwork fortifications in the vicinity of the forts, fortifications in the vicinity of the town of Dover, outlying buildings, and streams. Relief shown by hachures. At lower margin in ha... More

Extract from Fort Monroe, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Yorktown, with their c...

Shows Virginia Peninsula region, south of Yorktown to Fort Monroe. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy: Publication information annotated in ink. Sun print. Civil War salted paper maps... More

[Map of northern Virginia and part of Maryland].

Relief shown by shading. Shows area south of Frederick, Maryland to Colchester, Virginia and west of Baltimore, Maryland to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, including fortifications at Munson Hill. Note on verso o... More

Map showing the defenses of the Mississippi below New Orleans and Farr...

Map shows the Confederate fortifications at Fort Jackson under Gen. Duncan, Fort St. Philip and the Union fleet along the Mississippi River. This map, also shows the positions of Union ships under Farragut, who... More

[Scene of the late naval fight and the environs of Fortress Monroe, an...

Relief shown pictorially. Bird's-eye view of Hampton Roads region showing fortifications, camps, the Monitor lying off Fortress Monroe, and "Gen. Burnside's advance" on Suffolk, Va. Title from lower margin of v... More

[Sketch of the action at Roanoke Island, N. C., February 8, 1862, show...

North Carolina

[Map of Cumberland Gap and surrounding area in Tennessee, Virginia, an...

"Fortifications Map File" Plans of Military Forts

Map showing the positions occupied by the Tenth New York Cavalry in th...

Union positions are indicated in black and Confederate positions in red. Description derived from published bibliography. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 346.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web si... More

New defenses erected at Centreville, Virginia

Originally built by the Confederates and used for winter quarters in 1861-1862, the defenses around Centreville were also used by the Union Army to cover the retreat back to Washington after both 1st and 2nd Bu... More