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Map of the Suez Canal at its Opening, c. 1869 - Engineering, Empire, and the Remaking of Global Trade
The opening of the Suez Canal on 17 November 1869 marked a major transformation in global maritime commerce, linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas through a...
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Map of Jeanne d’Arc's Campaigns and The Hundred Years' War - Dynastic conflict, civil war & French resurgence, 1429–53
The Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) was a prolonged dynastic and territorial conflict between the kingdoms of England and France, shaped by disputes...
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Map of Rome's Civil War (49–45 BCE) - Caesar’s Campaigns and the Collapse of the Roman Republic
The Roman Civil War (49-45 BCE) was a decisive conflict that transformed the Roman Republic and accelerated the transition from republican government to autocratic...
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Members of a Boer Commando
Members of a Boer commando during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) in Southern Africa, c. 1900.
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Paul Kruger
Paul Kruger (1825-1904), the Boer statesman who served as Prime Minister of Transvaal from 1883 to 1902, photograph by Elliott & Fry, 1883.
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Jameson Raid, 1895
The Charge of the Three Hundred at Doornkop, a sketch by Captain Thatcher depicting the Jameson Raid, Time Inc., 1896. The Jameson Raid was a failed coup d'etat against the Boer Republic of Transvaal in 1895. The raid was led...
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Rhodes & Jameson
A photograph of Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) and Dr Leander Starr Jameson (1853-1917) who conspired to launch the Jameson Raid, a failed coup d'etat against the Boer Republic of Transvaal in 1895. National Photo Company Collection...
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Early Prospectors, Witwatersrand
An 1893 photograph of early prospectors at the Witwatersrand gold mines in Transvaal, Southern Africa.
Mechanical Curator Collection, British Library
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Black Miners with White Overseer, Witwatersrand, 1893
Black miners with a White overseer at the Witwatersrand gold mines in Transvaal, Southern Africa, photograph by J. Davis, 1893.
Mechanical Curator Collection, British Library
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Witwatersrand Gold
A chunk of quartz with gold from the Witwatersrand mines in South Africa.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
