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Tablet of the Sumerian and later Babylonian poem Ludlul-Bel-Nemeqi, also known as The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, from Library of Ashurbanipal the 7th century BCE, Nineveh Deposit from the British Museum at the Louvre Museum, Paris...

A 1762 portrait of George III of Great Britain (r. 1760-1820) by Allan Ramsay. (Historicalportraits.com)

An 18th-century Pembroke table by the celebrated British furniture manufacturer Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779).

Charioteer's folding knife handle with a horse. Rome, 4th century BCE. (Museum of the National Library of France, Paris)

Bust of Louis Antoine de Saint-Just by French sculptor David d'Angers, 1848. David d'Angers Gallery, Angers, France. Photo credits to Wikipedia user Selbymay, 2011.

The Battle of Fleurus, 26 June 1794. A French army achieved victory over the Austrians, turning the tide of the War of the First Coalition decisively in France's favor. Depicted on the white horse in General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan who commanded...

The house where Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just lived as a teenager in the rural town of Blérancourt, now a museum.

An 18th-century painting by David Morier showing the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746 in Scotland where the Jacobite Rebellion, which attempted to replace George II of Great Britain (r. 1727-1760) and return to the Royal Stuart line, was...

A painting by John Wootton showing George II of Great Britain (r. 1727-1760) leading an army to victory at the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria in 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). The king is shown alongside his second...

Gods of Thunder by Timothy R. Pauketat, Oxford University Press, 2023.