Alfred Leete is best known for his portrait of Lord Kitchener in the famous "Your Country Needs You" poster that encouraged so many young men to volunteer to fight in the Great War (1914 - 1918).

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont historians have their eyes on a historic painting up for auction this weekend, and the possible chance to bring it home to the Green Mountains. Vermont’s ...

Art experts claim “Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy” was artist Henry Gibbs’ commentary on the English Civil War.

After a stopover in the US that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany, on Thursday 19 October.

The Mahdist army numbered about 52,000, including the reserves under the ‘black’ standard, led in person by their leader, the Khalifa ‘Abdullahi. Dervish tribesmen at the Battle of Omdurman.

A painting that was stolen during the second world war then spent decades in an American home will be returned to an art museum in Ukraine. Standing nearly 2.4 metres (eight feet) tall, the ...

These spent bullets and cartridge cases come from an isolated desert battlefield in Northern Sudan where in 1898 the Mahdist Sudanese forces engaged with Gen. Kitchener's column before the battle ...

In desperation, the youngster and her brother wrote a heart-breaking letter to Lord Kitchener, pleading with the Secretary of State for War to ‘spare’ their 17-year-old mare.

Alfred Leete is best known for his portrait of Lord Kitchener in the famous "Your Country Needs You" poster that encouraged so many young men to volunteer to fight in the Great War (1914 - 1918).

News; History; Armed Forces; Potteries soldier took on 52,000 Mahdist warriors at the Battle of Omdurman Private Joseph Hopwood had been a Victorian soldier and a veteran of the Battle of Omdurman ...