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The Dreyfus Affair, or L'Affaire as it has become known, demonstrated the competing forces at work to either reestablish the monarchy and the Church in power or to solidify and advance the unfulfilled ideals of the 1789 French Revolution...

The Cadoudal Affair, or the Pichegru Conspiracy, was a failed royalist attempt to kill or kidnap Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), then the First Consul of the French Republic, and restore the House of Bourbon to the French throne. The conspiracy's...

The Gaspee Affair was an incident that occurred on 10 June 1772, when a group of American colonists from Rhode Island seized and burned the Royal Navy schooner HMS Gaspee after it had run aground. The affair contributed to the worsening of...

The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident that occurred in 1797-98, involving diplomats from the United States and Revolutionary France. Amidst rising tensions between the two nations, President John Adams sent envoys to Paris to negotiate...

The Chesapeake-Leopard affair was an incident that took place off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on 22 June 1807 when the British warship HMS Leopard fired on and boarded an American frigate USS Chesapeake while searching for deserters from...

The affair of the diamond necklace (1784-86) was a scandal that centered around Queen Marie Antoinette of France (l. 1755-1793). Although the queen was innocent of any involvement in a plot to steal a luxurious diamond necklace, the scandal...

British political cartoon depicting the XYZ Affair; America, represented as Lady Liberty, is being accosted by five Frenchmen, while figures representing other European countries look on in the background. Published by S.W. Fores, London...

The Burning of the "Gaspee", engraving by Howard Pyle, depicting Rhode Island colonists rowing away after burning the HMS Gaspee in the early hours of 10 June 1772, published in Harper's magazine, c. 1901-1908. New York Public Library...

Lancelot, also known as Sir Lancelot and Lancelot du Lac (“Lancelot of the Lake”) is the greatest knight of King Arthur's court and lover of Arthur's wife, Queen Guinevere, best known from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur (1469 CE...

Terracotta goblet with gazelles and ibexes, found in grave no. 725 in Shahr-e Sukhteh, southern Iran, Early Bronze Age, c. 2800-2400 BCE. National Museum of Iran, Tehran, acc. no. 12947. Photo by Nima Fakoorzadeh (Baloot Noghrei...