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![Red Cloud](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/18484.jpg?v=1708450263-1707989699)
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Red Cloud
Red Cloud (Makhpiya-luta, l. 1822-1909) was an Oglala Lakota Sioux chief, statesman, and military strategist who became the only Native American leader of the Plains Indians to win a war against the United States. Red Cloud's War (1866-1868...
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Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) was a conflict between the Lakota Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance and the US government over the westward expansion of the United States into the Powder River territory. It was the only war won by the Plains Indians...
![Eastman's Biography of Red Cloud](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17894.jpeg?v=1715541006-1695022251)
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Eastman's Biography of Red Cloud
Eastman's biography of Red Cloud (l. 1822-1909) is the first narrative of his Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1916), and it sets the tone for those that follow, including the pieces on Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, in explaining the motivation...
![Red-Figure Pottery](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3533.jpg?v=1701051303)
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Red-Figure Pottery
Red-figure Pottery is a style of Greek vase painting invented in Athens c. 530 BCE. The style has drawn red figures and a painted black background. Red-Figure Pottery grew in popularity, and by the early 5th century BCE it had all but replaced...
![Battle of Red Cliffs](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/11638.png?v=1716261368)
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Battle of Red Cliffs
The Battle of Red Cliffs (also known as the Battle of Chibi, 208 CE) was the pivotal engagement between the forces of Northern China led by the warlord Cao Cao (l. 155-220 CE) and the allied defenders of the south under the command of Liu...
![Firing Athenian black and red figure vases](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/512.jpg?v=1665496088)
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Firing Athenian black and red figure vases
A distinctive red and black colour scheme characterises most of the painted pottery of sixth- and fifth-century Athens. The colours result from the skilful exploitation of the high iron content of Athenian clay by an ingenious process of...
![Making and decorating Athenian black- and red-figure vases](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2061.jpg?v=1668074408)
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Making and decorating Athenian black- and red-figure vases
The first stage in making a pot is to dig the clay out of the ground. Pieces of grit or plant matter must be removed before the clay can be used. This was done in ancient times, as it is today, by mixing the clay with water and letting the...
![The Red Handprints of Cozumel & Tulum](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/9958.jpg?v=1629919803)
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The Red Handprints of Cozumel & Tulum
The Maya sites of San Gervasio (on the island of Cozumel) and Tulum (on the mainland of Mexico in Quintana Roo) are often overlooked for the better-known Chichen Itza or other spectacular ruins further inland but both these locations have...
![Plucking the Red & White Roses](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/11848.jpg?v=1718121065)
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Plucking the Red & White Roses
"Plucking the Red & White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens" by Henry Payne (1868 - 1940 CE). The painting depicts Richard of York challenging Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset to choose between the White Rose of House York and the Red...
![Red Cross with Triptych Egg by Fabergé](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/13967.jpg?v=1620117034)
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Red Cross with Triptych Egg by Fabergé
The 1915 Red Cross with Triptych Egg by Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). The egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917) to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna. The egg commemorates the founding of the Russian Red Cross by the empress. It is...