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Map of Fort George, c. 1812
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.
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Capture of Fort George
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.
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Map of the Roman Rule in the Levant, c. 200 CE
The Roman Levant around 200 CE, during the height of imperial consolidation under the Severan dynasty (193 - 235 CE), formed one of the empire’s most dynamic and interconnected frontier regions. Administratively divided into the provinces...
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Death of General Pike at the Battle of York
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.
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Fort York, 1804
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.
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Battle of York, 1813
US ships arrive in the harbor just before the Battle of York (modern-day Toronto, Canada), 27 April 1813. Watercolors by Owen Staples, 1914.
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Zebulon Pike
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...
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Construction of the Warship HMS Sir Isaac Brock
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...
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Stauffenberg & Quirnheim
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...
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Carl Goerdeler
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...
