🇫🇷 The Maritime boulevard, Le Havre, France, c. 1890s

🇸🇪 A Swedish soldier on military exercises near the Finnish border, July 1952

Canadians preparing to charge during the Battle of the Somme, WWI, 1916.
The battle began on July 1st 1916 and lasted nearly five months. By the time the battle ended on November 18, a total of about a million+ men from both sides had been killed or wounded, making it one of the deadliest battles in history.

🇫🇷 A woman hauling water, Corsica, c. 1900-1920s

A Luftwaffe review in Nazi Germany, 1937

German soldiers preparing captured members of the French resistance for execution by firing squad, July 1944

🇮🇹 Two young girls from Taormina, Sicily, c. 1900

3 July 1863: Confederate General Lewis Armistead leading his men forward during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, which would become known as the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy". This battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war.

King Wilhelm I, Bismarck and General Moltke observe the Battle of Königgrätz, during which the Prussians defeated the Austrians during the Austro-Prussian War, 3 July 1866

Veterans at the Gettysburg 50th anniversary reunion in July 1913 (Colourised)

🇫🇷 A French soldier in a flooded trench, WWI

🇺🇸 A 4th of July parade in New York, 1911

🇺🇸 A July 4th parade in Denver, Colorado, 1890s

A young German soldier captured by British forces near Caen during Operation Goodwood, July 1944

French general Henri Gouraud inspecting his troops in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains the day before the Battle of Maysalun, July 1920.
Following his success in the battle against the Syrian forces, Gouraud allegedly went to the tomb of Saladin in Damascus and kicked it, saying “Wake up Saladin, we have returned. My presence here consecrates the victory of the Cross over the crescent.”

Londoners taking overnight refuge in underground stations from German nighttime bombing raids, WWII

🇳🇱 Leiden, the Netherlands, 1890s (photochrome)

Grave marker of an Nazi SS soldier in the shape of a T-rune, representing Týr, the pagan Norse god of war, WWII

🇬🇧 Two Jewish children playing on an East End street in London, c. 1900

A woman from Algeria in traditional dress, c. 1900