Cuirassiers charge the camera on horseback.
An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the camera to look in the distance. At the same time the ship is hit! This scene is a filmed reconstruction of the 1897 Greek-Turkish war.
Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the enemy is about to overrun this position.
An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated painting.
As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.
Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Soldiers ambush a house.
“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking picture.” (Edison film catalog)
Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.
A film adapted from the play Savage South Africa which depicts scenes from the first and second Matabele War.
Shielded by a thick bit of timber at a turn of the road stands a company of mounted men, awaiting the order to advance...
Reenactment of action in the Spanish-American War.
Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.
A spy rejects a bandage and is shot by a firing squad.
Close shot of 4.7" naval gun pointing to the left with group of British naval ratings standing around it. The gun fires and the men run up to reload, the begin to pull the gun forward.
Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.
Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.
Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
A single shot of a fleet of warships at sea, with a sunset sky superimposed from another sequence to complete the effect.