The Great War And Military GIF Thread: Unleash The GIFS of War!

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[SeanBeansShako]

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British line presents and fires.

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Victorian era Russians on the march.

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Crimean War era British line advancing up a hill together on the battlefield.

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Union soldiers chanting and taunting defeated Confederate forces.

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Crimean War era Imperial Russian Infantry moving captured British cannon out from the taken Redoubt.

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Confederate line of infantry cheering on their General.

[Hawke]

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Please forgive the low quality, I can't find a better .gif uploading site.

[SeanBeansShako]

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French Napoleonic officer calls for an advance.

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Early Victorian era British soldier firing a Musket.

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A line of Swedish Northern War era soldiers move into a march.

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Victorian Era Russians under long range Turkish bombardment.

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Crimean War era British Line infantry deploying for the battle from their brigade.

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Confederate Line Infantry pressing on forward despite being under enemy artillery fire.

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Crimean War era British soldiers celebrating a hard won victory after the battle.

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Attacking Union in melee causes the advancing Confederate lines to halt in the attack.

[SeanBeansShako]

Please forgive the low quality, I can't find a better .gif uploading site.

Use this one, just make sure you pick the GIF option instead of video to post.

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French Line Grenadiers in a column march.

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Pre-Dreadnaughts sailing in a line.

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Crimean War era Imperial Russian Artillery battery opens fire.

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Charging line of Confederate Infantry forces a Union line to fall back.

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Victorian Era British Redcoats falling back to defensive positions and then reforming to open fire at the call of the Bugle.

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British Crimean War era soldiers celebrating their victory at the end of the bloody battle.

[Hawke]

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There we go, thanks.

[SeanBeansShako]

No problem. Combined with GIFCAM and GifOptomizer it makes these things easy to make, edit and upload on the internet.

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Prussians do not retreat! Blucher in the Waterloo movie.

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British soldiers landing on the beach of one of the Chinese River Forts.

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Swedish Column under roundshot fire.

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General Picton moving British soldiers forward in the movie Waterloo.

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Crimean War era British Army Infantry deploying in lines at the Battle Of Inkerman.

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A brigade of Confederate soldiers moving forward marching over the battlefield.

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Confederate soldiers firing their muskets off on the move as they prepare to charge.

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Armistead leading his forces in the final moments of an infamous charge.

[TORN]

Seeing those swedes getting hit by a cannonball i find it unimaginable the dicipline of the soldiers. I mean you're 100 paces from your enemy who's just shooting you and you're also getting bombarded by artillery.

[SeanBeansShako]

Seeing those swedes getting hit by a cannonball i find it unimaginable the dicipline of the soldiers. I mean you're 100 paces from your enemy who's just shooting you and you're also getting bombarded by artillery.

You had to have balls and be desperate to be a soldier in the 17th to 19th centuries. If you got hit anywhere but a fleshy part of the body you'd have mortal or crippling injuries plus the civil population hated you and you'd look forward to being deaf and living off a meager state pension if you survived. But hey, the ladies loved the uniforms right?

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Death Heads Hussars charging in the Waterloo movie.

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Gatling Gun firing into a group of Yari Samurai in FOTS.

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A column of Confederate line infantry marching forward.

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Crimean War era British line infantry crossing a stream on the battlefield.

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Straggling Confederate casulties walking away from the battlefield.

[Archduke Sven]

Seeing those swedes getting hit by a cannonball i find it unimaginable the dicipline of the soldiers. I mean you're 100 paces from your enemy who's just shooting you and you're also getting bombarded by artillery.

In the Carolean army, they'd shoot you if you moved your legs to avoid a rolling cannonball 

[Duuring]

You had to have balls and be desperate to be a soldier in the 17th to 19th centuries. If you got hit anywhere but a fleshy part of the body you'd have mortal or crippling injuries plus the civil population hated you and you'd look forward to being deaf and living off a meager state pension if you survived. But hey, the ladies loved the uniforms right?

Idealistic, stupid, or desperate. It's why people hated conscription so much - It puts people who are not one of those classes in those miserable condition.

[SeanBeansShako]

You had to have balls and be desperate to be a soldier in the 17th to 19th centuries. If you got hit anywhere but a fleshy part of the body you'd have mortal or crippling injuries plus the civil population hated you and you'd look forward to being deaf and living off a meager state pension if you survived. But hey, the ladies loved the uniforms right?

Idealistic, stupid, or desperate. It's why people hated conscription so much - It puts people who are not one of those classes in those miserable condition.

Don't forget any lack of rising in the ranks for the common man until the mid-late 19th century too. Best you'd get maybe was Corporal or Sergeant if you were really lucky!

I mean, it could be worse. You could be press ganged for a decade to do Landsmen duties on a ship at sea.

British line moving slowly forward into position.

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Napoleons Marshals arriving to force him to abdicate in the Waterloo movie.

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Crimean War era British Army lines moving together under the smoke of the battlefield.

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The first of several infantry lines in a Confederate brigade surges forward on the move.

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Union soldiers taking defensive position behind a stone wall and opening fire at a advancing Confederate line.

[Wismar]

Seeing those swedes getting hit by a cannonball i find it unimaginable the dicipline of the soldiers. I mean you're 100 paces from your enemy who's just shooting you and you're also getting bombarded by artillery.

They were taught that God decided when they would die and they had nothing to do with it. Ducking wouldn't solwe anything. This is one of the basic pillars of the Carolean tactics.

[Duuring]

I hate to burst your bubble but that's what everybody was thought. Every bullet had a name on it, was the common believe. It comes with the religious feeling entertained by both Catholics and certain protestant streams, like Calvijn (I think), that everything in your life was determined by God the moment you were born: Calvijn even said whether you will go to hell or to heaven was pre-determinded.

Of course another great big part of the whole keep-standing-up thing was pure tradition. People hadn't ducked when arrows flew their way, why do so with bullets?

I've tried to make a GIF of the artillery duel in Gods and Generals, but somehow my computer refuses to upload the damn thing. Says it's oversized...Ah well.

[SeanBeansShako]

Cut it up into several smaller ones!

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British Line Infantry firing a volley into a French column.

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Bismark and Napoleon III after Sedan.