Images

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

Alexander Mikaberidze, the author of Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace.

Tokugawa Ieyasu Mausoleum, Nikko, Japan.

Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) by Kanō Tan'yū, Edo period. Osaka Castle, Main Tower.

Political situation in Sri Lanka, early 17th century.

A map illustrating the rise and expansion of the Median Empire in the wake of the Bronze Age Collapse and the disintegration of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 609 BCE). While the Neo-Babylonian Empire engulfed the Fertile Crescent from the Levantine...