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Éléonore Duplay
Portrait of Éléonore Duplay (1768-1832) eldest daughter of cabinetmaker and Jacobin supporter Maurice Duplay. In 1791, French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre began lodging with the Duplays, and there were rumors that...
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Terracotta Bust of Robespierre, 1791
A terracotta bust of French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794), by French sculptor Claude André Deseine, 1791. Currently in the Museum of the French Revolution since 1986. Photo credits to...
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Map of the Sassanid Empire c. 620 CE - Persia’s Last Great Imperial Power
The Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE), known in Middle Persian sources as Ērānshahr (“Realm of the Iranians”), emerged as the final pre-Islamic Persian imperial state and a major power of...
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Shah Shuja
A portrait of Shah Shuja, King of the Afghan Empire from 1803 to 1809 and the proposed candidate to rule Afghanistan of the British East India Company during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42). (National Army Museum, London)
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Major-General William Elphinstone
A portrait of Major-General William Elphinstone (1782-1842) who commanded the army of the British East India Company in its infamous retreat from Kabul in January 1842 during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42...
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British Attack on Ghazni
An illustration showing the British East India Company's successful attack on the Afghan fortress of Ghazni in July 1839. The attack was during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42). (National Army Museum, London)
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Afghan Soldier with Jezail
An illustration by Lieutenant James Rattray of a 19th-century Afghan soldier carrying a jezail musket. (British Library, London)
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Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Portrait of Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1737-1815), commander of Austrian forces during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). Painting by William Essex, 1848, based on an earlier work...
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Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
French General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762-1833), marshal of the Empire under the reign of Napoleon I. Oil on canvas portrait initiated by Julie Volpelière but finished by Horace Vernet in 1834.
Palace of Versailles.
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Lazare Carnot at the Battle of Wattignies
French minister of war Lazare Carnot leads a victorious French Republican army during the Battle of Wattignies (15-16 October 1793), a significant engagement in the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797). Although...
