Images

Portrait of explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert by an unknown artist, c. 1584. Compton Castle.

Map of Newfoundland and Labrador made by the Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado in 1570.

Coin of Achaeus, King of Sardis, minted in Syria, c. 215 BCE.

The Parisian battalions and 19th Flanders regiment under General Dampierre charge the Austrian heights at the Battle of Jemappes, on 6 November 1792, during the War of the First Coalition. Painting by Raymond Desvarreux, early 20th century.

A reconstruction of the famous windmill the French forces gathered around at the Battle of Valmy, 20 September 1792. Photo by Ketounette, June 2020.

Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, in the 1790s, portrait by Johann Heinrich Schröder c. 1790-95. Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum.

Depiction of the Paris National Guard on its way to join the army, September 1792, oil on canvas by Léon Cogniet, 1836. Palace of Versailles.

The Battle of Valmy, 20 September 1792, oil on canvas by Horace Vernet, 1826. National Gallery, London.

A portrait by Nathanial Dance of Robert Clive (1725-1774), Governor General of Bengal and representative of the East India Company. Known as 'Clive of India' for his expansion of EIC interests in the subcontinent, the military commander and...

A map illustrating the emergence and expansion of one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world - the Mughal (Persian for Mongol) Empire from its foundation in 1526 by Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Babur, a Chagatai Turk and a descendant...