Images

A marker at the site of the Battle of Rhode Island (29 August 1778) detailing the order of events. Photo by JBowie17, 18 March 2014.

The Siege of Newport prior to the Battle of Rhode Island (29 August 1778). Illustration from The Gentleman's magazine, ed. by Sylvanus Urban, London, February 1779, p. 100-101. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Entry of the French fleet into Newport Bay in August 1778, just before the Battle of Rhode Island (29 August 1778). By Pierre Ozanne, 1778. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Sir Robert Pigot, a British military officer who led troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill and at the Battle of Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Portrait by Francis Cotes, c. 1765.

Lettres et opuscules de feu Monsr. Brousson, ministre & martyr du St. Evangile : avec un abrege de sa vie... by Claude Brousson (1647-1698), G. Vande Water (Utrecht), 1701. National Library of France, Paris.

An aerial photograph showing the bomb damage following the thousand-bomber raid on Cologne in 1942. (Australian War Memorial)

A photograph taken in April 1945 of the German city of Cologne, devastated by repeated Allied bombing raids during the Second World War (1939-45). Starting with the thousand-bomber raid on Cologne in 1942, the city became a repeated target...

A c. 1942 photograph of a Vickers Wellington Mk II heavy bomber, used by the Royal Air Force in the Second World War (1939-45).

A painting by W. Krogman showing the thousand-bomber raid on Cologne in 1942. On the night of 30 May a large force of RAF bombers attacked the German city. There were 469 civilian deaths, 5,000 were injured, and 41 aircraft were lost. It...

The Battle of Britain (July - October 1940) was a pivotal air campaign during World War II. It was fought between Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe. As Adolf Hitler sought air superiority as a precursor to a potential...