Images

A 1698 engraving by Jan Luyken showing the execution of the Duke of Monmouth in 1685. The failed Monmouth Rebellion of that year had seen the Duke, illegitimate son of Charles II of England, try to wrest the throne from his uncle James II...

A 1905 oil on canvas painting by Edgar Bundy, 'The Morning of Sedgemoor'. The scene shows the poorly-equipped soldiers of the ramshackle army led by the Duke of Monmouth at the battle of Sedgemoor in July 1685. This battle, the main action...

Engraving depicting the execution of King Louis XVI of France by guillotine on 21 January 1793, in the Place de la Revolution, Paris. The executioner displays his severed head to the crowd. Engraving by Isidore Stanislas Helman, after Charles...

King Louis XVI of France, during his imprisonment in the Tower of the Temple, where he was held for the last months of his life during the French Revolution. oil on canvas by Jean-François Garneray, 1814. Musée Carnavalet.

The Duke of Berry and the Count of Provence as Children, oil on canvas by François-Hubert Drouais, 1757. The painting depicts the future kings of France, Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, respectively. São Paulo Museum of Art.

Louis XVI, king of France and Navarre, wearing his grand royal costume in 1779, oil on canvas by Antoine-François Callet, 1789. Palace of Versailles.

A painting by Jan van Huchtenburg of the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 in Ireland where William III of England (aka William of Orange) defeated an army led by the deposed James II of England. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

A c. 1682 portrait by Peter Lely of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth (b. 1649). Monmouth was the illegitimate son of Charles I of England and led the failed Monmouth Rebellion against James II of England. He was executed for treason in 1685...

Statue of Mikhail Kutuzov in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace by Alexander Mikaberidze