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Napoleon Bonaparte, at the age of 23 in 1792, just after winning election to the lieutenant colonelcy of the Corsican National Guard, posthumous portrait by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1835, and is thus a posthumous portrait of Napoleon...

Le Souper de Beaucaire, or the Supper at Beaucaire, oil on canvas by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1869-1894. The Supper at Beaucaire was a pamphlet written by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1793, defending the necessity of France's Jacobin...

Statue of Louis Lazare Hoche (1768-1797), a general in the French Revolutionary Army. Pantheon, Paris.

A modern statue of the Taino chief Hatuey (d. 1512) who resisted the Spanish conquest of Cuba led by the conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465-1524) in 1511-13. Hatuey was captured and executed. He was burnt at the stake after refusing...

King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great by Matt Waters.

Matt Waters, the author of King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great.

Iron Age plated gold stater, struck for Commius, found in the Southern Region of Britain, dating to the period c. 50-25 BCE. Obverse: Wreath design with two hidden faces. Reverse: Horse right, wheel below. The British Museum, London.

A 1728 illustration of Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465-1524) was a Spanish conquistador who conquered Cuba in 1511, became the island’s governor for the next decade, and sponsored the expedition of Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) which conquered...

Richelieu on the Sea Wall of La Rochelle, oil on canvas by Henri-Paul Motte, 1881. Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle.

Louis XIII of France (1601-1643), oil on canvas portrait by Philippe de Champaigne, 1635. Museo del Prado, Madrid.