Mar 22, 2025
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: detail from a larger painting - Napoleon abandons his carriage, after Waterloo (Prussian cavalry were threatening capture).
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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: detail from a larger painting - Napoleon abandons his carriage, after Waterloo (Prussian cavalry were threatening capture).
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The last shots of the Napoleonic Wars. Prussians of the 21st Infantry Regiment during the storming of Medy-bas, September 15 1815, by Steve Noon. The action took place three months after Waterloo and marked the end of over two decades of brutal warfare.
KRIKŠTAI • Grave markers on the Baltic dunes, these stills are from a video on PRŪSISKA TĀLIWIDĀSNA (Prussian Television on YouTube). About KRIKŠTAI, Prussian-Lithuanian and Curonian grave markers. Similar markers are found in Latvia. #krikštai #ilgės #welinnis #curonions #prussians (at Nida, Lithuania) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckch5sEOLR-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Flag of the Baltic Prussians
from /r/vexillology Top comment: I saw this at the same time I saw the Maori New Zealand flag, cool.
Here we see a specimen of the Lesser Spotted Prussian, Alexander von Borsig, displaying some typical signs of the species:
-Dodgy Prussian mustache -Inclusion of Junker signifier “von” in surname -Pussybow blouse
(Be careful in identification in the wild - the Great Crested Prussian can also display quite ostentatious displays of Pussybow Blouse.)
A Prussian pagan priest sacrificing a goat to the Prussian god Wurschayto From: SUDAUER BÜCHLEIN. Warhafftige Beschreibung der Sudawen auf Samlandt sambt jhren Bockheyligen vnd Ceremonien (Truthful Description of Goat Sacrifice and Ceremonies by Sudovians from Samland) >> "Sudauer Büchlein" English: Sudovian Book Lithuanian: Sūduvių knygelė The Sudovian Book was an anonymous work about the customs, religion, and daily life of the Old Prussians from Sambia (Samland, Kaliningrad Peninsula)
Lieutenant-General Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel's Grenadier Guard Battalion in action on 4 June 1745 at the battle of Hohenfriedberg, Frederick the Great's victory over the Austro-Saxon army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.