Death: Did you mean...?

The death of Major Patrick Ferguson during the Battle of Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780. Engraving after Alonzo Chappel, 1863. Anne S. K. Brown Collection at Brown University.

An illustration showing the arrest, trial, and execution of Diego de Almagro (c. 1475-1538) the Spanish conquistador who participated in expeditions of conquest to Peru and Chile. Almagro was strangled to death in Cusco...

Death of Henry Clay Jr., son of the 'Great Compromiser', at the Battle of Buena Vista. By N. Currier, 1847. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University.

"The Death of King Arthur" by Marek Szyszko. Courtesy of Medieval Warfare Magazine / Karwansaray Publishers.

The death of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772-1806) in the Battle of Saalfeld (10 October 1806) during the War of the Fourth Coalition. Painting by Peter Edward Stroehling, c. 1806-1816. Royal Collection...

An Attic red-figure stamnos depicting the death of Orpheus, c. 470 BCE. (Louvre, Paris)

Painting by Charles Meryon (1821-1868) depicting the death of French explorer, Marion du Fresne (1724-1772), who is surrounded by Maori with children in the background and showing parts of a pa (fortification...

The death of General Jean-Charles Pichegru who allegedly committed suicide in his prison cell after being arrested for plotting against Napoleon in 1804. Image by Georges Moreau de Tours, printed in the Le Petit journal...

The Death of Cato of Utica, oil on canvas by Jean-Paul Laurens, 1863. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse.

Death of Admiral de Coligny, illustration of the murder of Gaspard II de Coligny, Admiral of France (l. 1519-1572) during the St. Bartholomew's Day Masscacre in the Book of Martyrs by John Foxe, illustrated by Joseph...