EditorialA burned-out school which was occupied by Russian troops and used to store ammunition in the recaptured village of Vilkhivka, Ukraine, east of Kharkiv, on Saturday, July 30, 2022. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)
EditorialA bus stop damaged by shrapnel in Mykolaiv, a city in southern Ukraine where Russian artillery and rocket strikes remain a lethal threat, on July 29, 2022. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
EditorialMiddle Ages. Portable firearm. 13th century.. Bombard. Cromolithography. "Historia General de Espa?a" by Modesto Lafuente. Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1879.
EditorialThe floating batteries of the British Navy at Gibraltar, 1782. A barge with 210 cannons on two tiers, and another single-tier barge, designed by the French engineer d'Arcon to bombard the town. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderb...
EditorialA Cavalry Battle, Jan Wyck, ca. 16451700, Dutch, active in Britain (from ca. 1664), undated, Gray wash with black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 6 1/2 ? 8 1/4 inches (16.5 ? 21 cm), battle, bombard (cannon), cav...
EditorialAn Officer upon a Rampart Directing the Bombardment of a Distant Town, Jan Wyck, ca. 16451700, Dutch, active in Britain (from ca. 1664), undated, Pen and black ink with gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, slightl...
EditorialWORLD WAR (1914-1918). BIG BERTHA M42. German gun used to bombard Paris from over 100 km. away in 1918. Its gauge was 210 mm. and was 34 m. long. It was manufactured by Krupp, whose daughter was named the piece and designed by the engineer RAUSENBERGER...
EditorialAncient guns from Valturinns, Uffano 1-7, fanciful elbow-piece mortar 3, bombard 8, bombs 9,10, and perrier stone-thrower chambers 11,12. Copperplate engraving from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdal...
EditorialAncient bombard or gun called Mons Meg. Copperplate engraving from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdale, London, 1812.
EditorialSquare bottle with caricatures of the trade speculation of 1720, Square bottle of porcelain with a narrow, spreading neck, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, purple, brown, black and gold. Two representations on the wall twice: a Europea...
EditorialThe floating batteries of the British Navy at Gibraltar, 1782. A barge with 210 cannons on two tiers, and another single-tier barge, designed by the French engineer d'Arcon to bombard the town. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderb...
EditorialWORLD WAR (1914-1918). BIG BERTHA M42. German gun used to bombard Paris from over 100 km. away in 1918. Its gauge was 210 mm. and was 34 m. long. It was manufactured by Krupp, whose daughter was named the piece and designed by the engineer RAUSENBERGER...