Images

An illustration by Lieutenant James Rattray of a 19th-century Afghan soldier carrying a jezail musket. (British Library, London)

Portrait of Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1737-1815), commander of Austrian forces during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). Painting by William Essex, 1848, based on an earlier work by Ferdinand Jagemann. Essex's painting...

French General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762-1833), marshal of the Empire under the reign of Napoleon I. Oil on canvas portrait initiated by Julie Volpelière but finished by Horace Vernet in 1834. Palace of Versailles.

French minister of war Lazare Carnot leads a victorious French Republican army during the Battle of Wattignies (15-16 October 1793), a significant engagement in the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797). Although Carnot played a vital role...

Battle of Wattignies, 15-16 October 1793 during the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797). The battle was fought between an army of the First French Republic led by General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and a Coalition army led by Prince Josias...

King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem toppling an enemy at the Battle of Montgisard, illustration from MS 45 f. 198r. Estoire d'Eracles (Bk XXI, 27), late 13th century. Bibliothèque municipale, Épinal.

The monument to the Battle of Chillianwalla (now in Pakistan) fought on 13 January 1849 between the British East India Company and the Sikh Empire during the Anglo-Sikh Wars (1845-9). The battle was a draw with heavy casualties on both sides...

A portrait of Sher Singh Attariwalla, general of the Sikh Empire during the Anglo-Sikh Wars (1845-9) with the British East India Company.

A map illustrating the First Bulgarian Empire at its greatest extent during the reign of Simeon I the Great (the first one to use the title tsar derived from the Latin caesar). The Bulgarian Empire was a medieval kingdom established as a...

A map showing the troop dispositions at the Battle of Chillianwala on 13 January 1849 during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9) between the British East India Company and the Sikh Empire. The battle was indecisive with heavy casualties on...