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View of the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibiton at the National Museum Zurich from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025. Copyright: Swiss National Museum. Used with permission (Press release).

View of the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibiton at the National Museum Zurich from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025. Copyright: Swiss National Museum. Used with permission (Press release).

Winfield Scott as a major general in 1814, during the War of 1812. Portrait by David Edwin and Joseph Wood, 1814. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Map of Fort George and surrounding areas during the War of 1812, from The Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 by Benson Lossing.

US Colonel Winfield Scott leads the Americans into Fort George at the end of the Battle of Fort George (27 May 1813) during the War of 1812, engraving by Alonzo Chappel, 1857. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

This map illustrates the Roman Levant c. 200 CE, encompassing the provinces of Syria Coele, Syria Phoenice, Judea (renamed Syria Palaestina), and Arabia Petraea. It was a culturally diverse and strategically vital region, serving as a trade...

The death of US General Zebulon Pike at the Battle of York (27 April 1813) during the War of 1812, engraving by an unknown artist, 1839. Canadian Military History Gateway, Department of National Defence.

Fort York (at modern-day Toronto, Canada), the site of the Battle of York in the War of 1812, watercolor by Sempronius Stretton, 1804. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.

US ships arrive in the harbor just before the Battle of York (modern-day Toronto, Canada), 27 April 1813. Watercolors by Owen Staples, 1914.

Zebulon Pike, American military officer and explorer. He is best known for the mountain in the Rockies that bears his name (Pike's Peak) and for his death at the Battle of York during the War of 1812. Oil on paper portrait by Charles Willson...