Images

A carved garnet set in gold, depicting a Ptolemaic queen who is either Berenike II (r. 246-222 BCE) or Cleopatra I (r. 195-176 BCE). Created by the ancient artist Nikandros. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

The double entrance to the Temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan, Egypt. Built by the Ptolemaic dynasty c. 180-47 BCE.

Legion of the United States at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (20 August 1794). Painting by H. Charles McBarron, Jr. Center for Military History.

Steel engraving of 'Mad' Anthony Wayne by Alonzo Chappel, 1862.

Charge of the US dragoons at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (20 August 1794). By R. F. Zogbaum, 1895.

Anthony Wayne, oil on canvas portrait by Edward Savage, c. 1795. New York Historical Society.

Engraved gold ring from Egypt, 3rd or 2nd century BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Washington Reviewing the Western Army at Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. Oil on canvas painting attributed to Frederick Kemmelmeyer, c. 1795. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Portrait of Henry Lee III, better known as 'Light-horse Harry' Lee, cavalry officer of the Continental Army, ninth Governor of Virginia, and father of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Oil on canvas painting by William Edward West, c. 1838...

Portrait of Horatio Gates, oil on canvas by James Peale, after an original by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1782. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.