Images

Map depicting the Siege of Dunkirk and Battle of Hondschoote, between an Anglo-Hanoverian force commanded by the Duke of York and Marshal Freytag, and an army of the French Republic led by Jean-Nicolas Houchard and Jean-Baptiste Jourdan...

Field Marshal Freytag and Prince Adolphus of Great Britain are captured by French troops during a retreat on the first day of the Battle of Hondschoote, 6 September 1793, during the War of the First Coalition. Prince Adolphus quickly escaped...

Portrait of General Jean-Nicolas Houchard (1739-1793) who led the French Army of the North to victory against the Coalition at the Battle of Hondschoote, 6-8 September 1793. Houchard's failure to follow up on his victory led to his arrest...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Execution of Jacques-Pierre Brissot (1754-1793) on 31 October 1793, engraving by an anonymous artist, 1793. National Library of France, Paris.