Images

Fort Belgica at Banda Neira, 1824. Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

Return of Jacob van Neck (Thuiskomst van JC van Neck), painting by Cornelis Vroom, 17th century.

An illustrated map of the Mediterranean from 700 BCE to 500 CE. From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.

An illustrated map of medieval and early modern Europe. From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.

An illustrated map of the ancient Fertile Crescent, 3500-500 BCE. From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.

A 1910 print by Edward Percy Moran of the Battle of New Orleans. On 8 January 1815, the U.S forces, commanded by General Andrew Jackson, successfully defended the city against an attack by a British force. (Library of Congress)

A detail of a c. 1835 portrait by Thomas Phillips of Lord Byron (1788-1824) wearing Albanian clothing. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

A c. 1821 painting attributed to John Welsey Jarvis of the pirate brothers Pierre and Jean Lafitte (also spelt Laffite, c. 1780-1820/26) who operated in the Gulf of Mexico from 1810 to 1820. (Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans)

A 19th-century portrait of the Franco-American pirate and privateer Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 - c. 1821). (Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas)

A map illustrating the changing balance of colonial power among the Spanish, English, and French Empires in the 1700s along the coastlines of the Americas, specifically in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. This region, referred to...