Images

Sioux: Black Rock with family, painting by George Catlin, 1854. Ethnological Museum, Berlin.

Eight Sioux in Front of Tipis on the Pine Ridge Reservation, photo taken by the Northwestern Photographic Company, circa 1891. Courtesy of the National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.

Self-torture in a Sioux Religious Ceremony, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1835-1837. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Ceremonial pipe. The bowl is made of soft red pipestone, also known as catlinite, with a carving and tin liner. Vojta Náprstek received the pipe as a gift from the Dakota in 1856. National Museum, Prague.

French Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) and his staff during the French campaigns of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Within months, the Napoleonic Empire would be toppled. Oil on canvas by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1864. Musée...

The defense of Clichy during the Battle of Paris (30-31 March 1814), one of the final actions of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Marshal Jannot de Moncey is depicted centre-frame on horseback, giving orders to the goldsmith Claude Odiot...

After being defeated in the War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-1814), Napoleon abdicates at Fontainebleau and is exiled to the isle of Elba. Painting by Gaetano Ferri, completing a work started by François Bouchot, 1843. Château de Fontainebleau...

The Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations, 16-19 October 1813, painting by Vladimir Moshkov, 1815. Great Patriotic Museum of 1812, Moscow.

The Battle of Acris-sur-Aube (20-21 March 1814), during the War of the Sixth Coalition. It was one of Napoleon's final battles before his exile to Elba. Painting by Jean-Adolphe Beaucé, before 1875. Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology, Troyes...

Famous meeting between French Emperor Napoleon I and Austrian diplomat Prince Klemens von Metternich at Dresden on 26 June 1813, to negotiate an end to the War of the Sixth Coalition. A heated argument broke out over Metternich's demands...