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Windmill at Valmy
A reconstruction of the famous windmill the French forces gathered around at the Battle of Valmy, 20 September 1792. Photo by Ketounette, June 2020.
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Portrait of the Duke of Brunswick in the 1790s
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, in the 1790s, portrait by Johann Heinrich Schröder c. 1790-95.
Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum.
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Paris National Guard Goes to War, September 1792
Depiction of the Paris National Guard on its way to join the army, September 1792, oil on canvas by Léon Cogniet, 1836.
Palace of Versailles.
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Battle of Valmy
The Battle of Valmy, 20 September 1792, oil on canvas by Horace Vernet, 1826.
National Gallery, London.
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Robert Clive
A portrait by Nathanial Dance of Robert Clive (1725-1774), Governor General of Bengal and representative of the East India Company. Known as 'Clive of India' for his expansion of EIC interests in the subcontinent, the military commander and...
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Colossal-Type Statue of Neptune
Probably sculpted in a workshop in Aphrodisias (Asia Minor), it was at Palaemon's sanctuary in Isthmia (near Corinth), where it was described by Pausanias (II, 2, 1) in the 2nd century CE. It is an important sample of the Roman Empire's classicism...
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Antoine Coysevox's Neptune
Antoine Coysevox's Neptune in the Louvre (Paris, France), 1705.
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Centaur, Salacia and Neptune
Ancient Roman fresco (50-79 CE), Pompeii, Italy.
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Map of the British Conquest in India c. 1857
This map illustrates the rapid and often chaotic expansion of British control in India between the Battle of Plassey in 1757 and the eve of the Indian Rebellion in 1857. During this century, the East India Company transformed from a trading...
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Chushingura
Chushingura, Act l0: A Night Scene outside the House of the Merchant Amakawa-ya Gihei at Sakai, by Ando Hiroshige, 1835-6.
