Images

A painting by J. Harris of the Battle of Sobraon, 10 February 1846. The battle saw the British East India Company defeat the Sikh Empire and so win the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6). (National Army Museum, London)

A detail from the c. 1858 title page of a collection of lithographs The Campaign in India 1857-58 showing Bengal sepoy infantry of the British East India Company. (National Army Museum, London)

A cannon used by the Sikh Empire during the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6) against the British East India Company. This example was captured after the Battle of Ferozeshah in December 1845. The photograph was taken by John Constantine Stanley...

French Revolutionary journalist Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794) spends time with his wife Lucille (1771-1794) and child Horace-Camille (1792-1825), oil on canvas, formerly attributed to Jacques-Louis David, c. 1792. Palace of Versailles...

Portrait of Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794), one of the most famous journalists during the French Revolution (1789-1799), oil on canvas by an anonymous painter, c. 1790. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

A map illustrating the scope and organization of the Roman provinces in North Africa. Since the establishment of the first Roman territory on the continent (roughly corresponding to modern Tunisia) in 146 BCE following the destruction of...

An 1846 illustration showing soldiers of the Sikh empire during the Anglo-Sikh Wars (1845-9) against the British East India Company. (By Lieut. G. F. Atkinson, London Illustrated News)

A map illustrating the troop positions of the British East India Company (pink) and the Sikh empire (yellow for the first battle line and red for the second line after a regrouping mid-battle) at the battle of Aliwal of 28 January 1846 during...

The trapezoidal paved forum (37 x 34 m) of Banasa (also Iulia Valentia Banasa), an ancient city of the province of Mauretania Tingitana (modern-day Morocco). The forum was lined by porticoes and flanked to the north by a rectangular basilica...

A villa complex at Lixus on the Atlantic coast (modern-day Morocco) from the time of Juba II (c. 48 BCE to 23 CE), the ruler of Mauretania. The palace-like residence was approximately 7,000 square metres with a long portico, a triclinium...