Images

A photograph of General Erwin Rommel and his Chief of Staff, Fritz Bayerlein during the North Africa Campaign of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1941 photograph showing Sikh infantrymen training with mortars and Bren guns as part of the British Eighth Army in the North Africa Campaign during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1942 photograph of General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), British general and then field marshal during the Second World War (1939-45). He is here seen in a Grant Tank as he commands the British Eighth Army in North Africa. (Imperial War...

A 1942 photograph of General Erwin Rommel, German general and then field marshall during the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

A 1943 photograph of General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), British general and then field marshall during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A scene at the signing of the US Constitution, oil on canvas painting by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940. United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

James Bowdoin II, Patriot leader during the American Revolution and Governor of Massachusetts during Shays' Rebellion (1786-87). Portrait by Robert Feke, 1748.

Shays' Rebellion protestors, sometimes referred to as Shaysites, take down a tax collector, c. 1786-87. Colored version of an illustration from the Popular history of the United States, from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by...

Shays' Rebellion leaders Daniel Shays (left) and Job Shattuck, illustration by an unknown artist, 1787. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Washington at the US Constitutional Convention, 1787. Oil on canvas painting by Junius Brutus Stearns, 1856. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.