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Construction of the sloop-of-war HMS Sir Isaac Brock at York, Upper Canada. Named after a fallen British general, the ship was intended to give Britain superiority on Lake Ontario; it was still unfinished when it was burnt during the Battle...

A photograph of Claus von Stauffenberg (1907-44) and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, conspirators in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Stauffenberg placed the bomb in Hitler's command centre but the Führer survived...

A photograph of Carl Goerdeler (1884-1945). Goerdeler was a conspirator in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Goerdeler, if the attempt had been succesful, was to have replaced Hitler as the chancellor of Germany...

A 1936 photograph of General Ludwig Beck (1880-1944). Beck was a conspirator in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Beck, if the attempt had been succesful, was to have replaced Hitler as the figurehead of the...

A photo taken at one of Adolf Hitler's WWII command centres, the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia. On the far left is Claus von Stauffenberg (1907-44) who placed a bomb in a command hut there on 20 July 1944 in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate...

The remains of the command centre hut in which a bomb exploded in the hope of killing the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944. (German Federal Archives)

This map illustrates the course of the War of 1812 (1812-1815), a conflict between the United States and Great Britain driven by trade restrictions, the impressment of American sailors, and disputes over territorial expansion. Native American...

Ball Play Dance, Choctow, depicting the ceremonial Native American dance performed prior to a game of stickball, oil on canvas by American artist George Catlin, 1834. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

A 1937 photograph of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the dictator of Nazi Germany (1933-45). (German Federal Archives)

The Trinity Altarpiece panels, oil on oak panels by Hugo van der Goes, 1478. The four panels were probably the wings of a triptych. The open wings showed James III of Scotland and Margaret of Denmark before the Virgin. The closed wings depicted...