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Battle of Hondschoote
Battle of Hondschoote, 6-8 September 1793; victory of the French Republic over a Coalition army. By Boussod & Valadon after a painting by Eugène Lami, 1890.
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French Anti-slavery Pamphlet
Front page of the "Address to the National Assembly", an anti-slavery pamphlet written by the French abolitionist group Société des amis des noirs ("Society of the Friends of the Blacks") in 1790.
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The Battlefield at Gujrat
A mid-19th-century illustration by Henry Martens showing the battle of Gujrat on 21 February 1849 during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9) between the British East India Company (EIC) and the Sikh Empire. The EIC won the battle and the war...
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The Battlefield of Chillianwala
A mid-19th-century painting by Charles Becher Young showing the battle of Chillianwala on 13 January 1849 during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9) between the British East India Company (EIC) and the Sikh Empire. The EIC did not gain a decisive...
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Rhea & Cronus
Rhea presents Cronus with the stone disguised as a baby, Roman relief, 2nd century CE.
Capitoline Museum, Rome.
Image source: Galerie mythologique by A.L. Millin, 1811.
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Battle Lines at Sobraon
A map showing the troop formations at the Battle of Sobraon on 10 February 1846 during the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6). Sobraon was the last of four major victories for the British East India Company (EIC) against the Sikh empire and so...
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Execution of Brissot
Execution of Jacques-Pierre Brissot (1754-1793) on 31 October 1793, engraving by an anonymous artist, 1793.
National Library of France, Paris.
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Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville
Portrait of French revolutionary leader Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), painting by Jean-Baptiste Fouquet, c. 1792.
Palace of Versailles.
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The Parthian Empire in the 2nd Century
The Parthian Kingdom (also known as Arsacid, by the name of its ruling dynasty) rose to prominence c. 247 BCE in the vacuum created by the collapse of the Seleucid Empire. In the centuries that followed, the Parthian Empire grew to encompass...
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Sikh Battle Helmet
A battle helmet from the Sikh empire dating to the first half of the 19th century. Long obsolete elsewhere, chainmail and armour were still being worn, largely for visual effect, by Sikh cavalry during, for example, the Anglo-Sikh Wars (1845-9...
