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Massacre of Anne Hutchinson, illustration from page 530 of A popular history of the United States: from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states; preceded by...

Bloody Knife (l. c. 1840-1876), Arkiara-Sioux scout for the US Army, c. 1873. He was George Armstrong Custer's favorite scout, confidante, and friend. Prior to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Bloody Knife tried to warn Custer that there...

Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the Sioux-Arikara scout Bloody Knife (kneeling left, to Custer's right), Custer's favorite Indian Scout who died with him at the Battle of the Little Bighorn 1876.

US Army officers George Armstrong Custer (left) and Alfred Pleasonton, autumn 1863, from page 280 of The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Four, The Cavalry. The Review of Reviews Co., New York, 1911.

Major Marcus Reno (l. 1834-1889) who served with Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. Photograph by David Francis Barry, c. 1874-76. Denver Public Library.

George Armstrong Custer and his wife Elizabeth "Libbie" Custer, photo by Matthew Brady, 1864. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Frederick Benteen (l. 1834-1898) in his later years. He served with Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and was present at the Washita Massacre (1868) and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876).

Assyria was the region located in the ancient Near East which, under the Neo-Assyrian Empire, reached from Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) through Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and down through Egypt. The empire began modestly at the city of Ashur...

Hammurabi (r. 1792-1750 BCE) was the sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon best known for his famous law code which served as the model for others, including the Mosaic Law of the Bible. He was the first ruler able to successfully...

Assyria began as a small trading community centered at the ancient city of Ashur and grew to become the greatest empire in the ancient world prior to the conquests of Alexander the Great and, after him, the Roman Empire. While the Assyrians'...