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Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer
A photograph of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer (1864-1927) who infamously ordered his men to shoot upon an unarmed crowd killing hundreds and wounding over 1,500 men women and children in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 in Amritsar...
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Punishment of Humiliation, Amritsar, 1919
A photograph showing one of the punishments of humiliation ordered by General Dyer following the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 1919. Dyer insisted that all Indian men crawl along a certain street where a female British doctor had been...
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Jallianwala Bagh, 1919
The Jallianwala Bagh, a large walled garden in Amritsar, India, photographed in 1919. The square was the site of the infamous Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 1919 when Brigadier-General Dyer ordered his men to shoot upon an unarmed crowd...
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Arrest of the Girondins at the National Convention
Arrest of the Girondin deputies by the National Guard at the National Convention, during the Insurrection of 2 June 1793, print by an unknown artist, c. 1817-1857.
Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
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Last Supper of the Girondins
Last Supper of the Girondins, on 30 October 1793, the night before their executions, oil on canvas by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, c. 1850.
Museum of the French Revolution, Vizille.
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Last Moments of the Girondins
Last Moments of the Girondins, painting by Karl von Piloty, 1880. Following their arrest on 2 June and their kangaroo court trial, 22 Girondin leaders are borne in a tumbril to the guillotine on 31 October 1793, during the Reign of...
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The Triumph of Marat
The Triumph of Marat, painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1794. Following his acquittal before the Revolutionary Tribunal on 26 April 1793, inflammatory journalist Jean-Paul Marat is lifted on the shoulders of an ecstatic crowd of supporters...
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The Elimination of the Girondins
The Insurrection of 2 June 1793, when over 80,000 armed Parisians and National Guardsmen besieged the National Convention, demanding the arrest of 22 Girondins. Hérault de Séchelles, the Convention's president is trying to get the insurrectionists...
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Eris with Wings
Black-figured kyathos depicting Eris, Attica, Greece, c. 500 BCE.
The British Museum, London.
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Separation of the Church and the State
Caricature depicting the separation of the church and the state, published in Le Rire, 1905.
National Library of France, Paris.
