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A photograph of the Boer 94-pounder artillery piece known as 'Long Tom'. The gun was famously used during the siege of Mafeking (1899-1900), a major engagement in the Boer War (aka South Africa War, 1899-1902). Imperial War Museums, London...

A 1900 illustration showing the relief of Mafeking in May 1900. The siege of Mafeking (1899-1900) was a major engagement in the Boer War (aka South Africa War, 1899-1902). The British held out for over 200 days before being relieved. G W...

An 1899 illustration showing the siege of Mafeking (1899-1900), a major engagement in the Boer War (aka South Africa War, 1899-1902). The British held out for over 200 days before being relieved. G W Bacon & Co London

Roman involvement in North Africa began with the destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War (149-146 BCE), after which Rome established the province of Africa and gradually expanded its authority across the Maghreb. Over the following...

Anishinaabe war club, hardwood carving, c. 1750. Sculpted to resemble a deer's leg, this weapon of war, likely Ojibwe, is burnished with red pigment. A projecting spike may have once adorned the spherical head. The Metropolitan Museum of...

The Death of General Wolfe at Quebec (September, 1759), mezzotint published by Robert Sayer and John Bennett after Edward Penny, 10 October 1779. On 13 September 1759, British forces under Major-General James Wolfe and French troops under...

The prosperity of the Roman Empire (27 BCE-476 CE in the West) rested not only on military power and administration but also on an extensive network of maritime and overland trade routes that connected communities across Europe, North Africa...

From the voyages of the Portuguese navigators under the patronage of Henry the Navigator in the 15th century to the transcontinental expeditions of Henry Morton Stanley in the 1870s, European exploration of Africa gradually transformed European...

The rise of Constantine I "the Great" (c. 272–337 CE; reign 306–337 CE) occurred amidst the political instability of the later Roman Empire, following the collapse of Diocletian’s Tetrarchic system. Proclaimed emperor by his troops at Eboracum...

The journeys of Paul the Apostle, also known as Saul of Tarsus, unfolded during the mid-1st century CE within the highly interconnected world of the Roman Empire under Claudius (reign 41-54 CE) and Nero (reign 54-68 CE). One of the earliest...