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A c. 1825 caricature of the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) on the right and the baritone singer Johann Michael Vogl (1768-1840) who sang many of the composer's songs. Drawing attributed to Franz Schober. (National Library of...

The Battle of Trafalgar, oil on canvas painting by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, 1836.

French Emperor Napoleon I (r.1804-1815) accepts the surrender of an Austrian army under General Mack on 20 October 1805, after the Ulm Campaign. Oil on canvas painting by René Théodore Berthon, c. 1805-1810. Palace of Versailles.

Emperor Napoleon I orders the II Corps of the Grande Armée into action at Augsburg on 12 October 1805, during the Ulm Campaign. Painting by Pierre-Claude Gautherot, 1808.

Topographical map of Sicily.

Jean Rapp, one of Napoleon's aides-de-camp, presents the emperor with the captured Prince Repnin-Volkonsky of Russia during the Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805. Oil on canvas by François Gérard, 1810. Palace of Versailles.

A contemporary view of the Sicilian hilltop city of Enna, which stand 931 meters (3,054 feet) above sea level.

The heraldic symbol of Roger I of Sicily (r. 1071-1101).

The trifollaro was a copper coin minted in southern Italy under the Normans. Count Roger I of Sicily (reigned 1071–1101) minted both folles and trifollari at Mileto.

A map illustrating the series of republican revolts and political upheavals against European monarchies in 1848, also known as the People's Spring or the Spring of Nations. The widespread violent unrest started in Sicily and, within a short...