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Actions on the second day of the Battle of Leipzig, 18 October 1813. Map by Wikipedia user Andrei nacu, 2008.

Premature explosion of the bridge at the Battle of Leipzig, which stranded tens of thousands of French troops in the city, 19 October 1813. Lithograph by Carle Vernet, 19th century.

Chrage of the 19th Hungarian Infantry Regiment against French troops, part of the Battle of Leipzig (16-19 October 1813). By Fritz Neumann, 19th century.

French infantry defend a barricade against a Prussian assault during the Battle of Leipzig (16-19 October 1813). Print by Valadon, Bousson, Paris, after Paul-Émile Boutigny from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William M. Sloane, New York: Century...

Cavalry fight at the village of Möckern, part of the Battle of Leipzig (16-19 October 1813), illustration from the German-language book Geschichte des Husaren-Regiments von Zieten (Brandenburgisches) Vol. 3 by Armand Freiherr, Ardenne Berlin...

French Emperor Napoleon I confers with his marshal, Prince Józef Poniatowski, at the Battle of Leipzig (16-19 October 1813). Painting by January Suchodolski, circa 19th century.

Dakota scaffold burial, illustration from page 159 of A Further Contribution to the Study of Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, 1881.

Native American house burial, illustration from page 175 of A Further Contribution to the Study of Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, 1881.

Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre, aquatint on paper by Karl Bodmer, plate 11 from Volume 2 of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, 1844.

Gold bracelet with miniature portraits of three Mughal emperors and their royal wives, watercolors on ivory by Indian Mughal miniaturists in Delhi (1860-1870). The third oval from the left is a portrait of the last Mughal emperor...