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A map illustrating the expansion of the Roman Republic from its origins as a loose confederacy of allies and those called Latins in Italy (after the Latin War of 340 - 338 BCE) through more than 230 years of alliances, wars, and annexations...

Roman sestertius, minted in Rome, 37-38 CE, under Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 CE). Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

Bars of orichalcum. Archaeological Museum of Gela, Sicily, Italy.

Insurrection on 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795), engraving by Isidore Stanislas Helman and Jean Duplessis-Bertaux after Charles Monnet, 1796. National Library of France, Paris.

Massacre of the Jacobin prisoners in Lyon, 4 May 1795, during the First White Terror in the French Revolution (1789-1799). Engraving by Raffet, 1834

Uprising of 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795) against the policies of the Thermidorian Reaction during the later stages of the French Revolution (1789-1799). Here, the insurrectionists wave the severed head of Jean-Bertrand Féraud in the...

Two dandyish muscadins strolling through the streets of Paris, looking for Jacobins to attack with their wooden clubs (which they nicknamed constitutions). Painting by Eugène Lampsonius.

Shown on a collectible cigarette card, the medal issued by the East India Company for participants in the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-16).

A painting showing Nepalese Gurkha soldiers in 1815 as they would have appeared in the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-16).

A 19th-century portrait by Martin Archer Shee of Francis Rawdon, 1st Marquess of Hastings. An experienced military commander, Rawdon was made Governor-General of the East India Company in 1813, a position he held until 1823. (National Gallery...