Images

Battle of Famars, 23 May 1793, the Coalition army charging against the French, engraving by Mather Brown, 1796.

This map illustrates the Roman Republic's territorial expansion from approximately 260 to 30 BCE, highlighting how a once-local power in central Italy transformed into a Mediterranean empire. From early campaigns in Sicily and Spain to sweeping...

Roman sestertius, minted in Rome, 37-38 CE, under Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 CE). Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

Bars of orichalcum. Archaeological Museum of Gela, Sicily, Italy.

Insurrection on 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795), engraving by Isidore Stanislas Helman and Jean Duplessis-Bertaux after Charles Monnet, 1796. National Library of France, Paris.

Massacre of the Jacobin prisoners in Lyon, 4 May 1795, during the First White Terror in the French Revolution (1789-1799). Engraving by Raffet, 1834

Uprising of 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795) against the policies of the Thermidorian Reaction during the later stages of the French Revolution (1789-1799). Here, the insurrectionists wave the severed head of Jean-Bertrand Féraud in the...

Two dandyish muscadins strolling through the streets of Paris, looking for Jacobins to attack with their wooden clubs (which they nicknamed constitutions). Painting by Eugène Lampsonius.

Shown on a collectible cigarette card, the medal issued by the East India Company for participants in the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-16).

A painting showing Nepalese Gurkha soldiers in 1815 as they would have appeared in the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-16).