Images

A photo of Valari, a native hunting weapon, also known as Indian Boomerang used by the ancient warrior clans of the south of the Indian Peninsula also known as Ancient Pandya country. Forged steel. Created in the mid 19th century. Located...

Oil on slate painting by Benjamin West, c.1816. From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Oil on canvas painting, depicting the siege of Yorktown (1781). Figures depicted include George Washington, the Comte de Rochambeau and the Marquis de Lafayette. Painted by Auguste Couder, 1836. From the Palace of Versailles collection.

Painting depicting French and British ships at the Battle of Chesapeake Bay that took place on the September 5, 1781. By V. Zveg. Located at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, Virginia.

The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, depicting the Great Siege of Gibraltar (24 June 1779 to 7 February 1783), part of the American Revolutionary War, oil on canvas by John Trumbull, 1789. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A painting portraying Charles Gravier, count of Vergennes, State minister of Foreign Affairs (1717-1787). Oil on canvas painting, by Antoine-François Callet (1741-1823). From the Palace of Versailles collection.

A c. 1670 anonymous painting titled The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's. The Great Fire of London ravished the English capital in September 1666 destroying over 13,000 buildings. (Yale Center for British Art, Yale University...

Scythians shooting with bows, from Kerch, c. 475-450 BCE. Photographed at the Louvre, Paris, in 2007.

Relief of a Scythian warrior with an axe, bow, and spear, 4th-2nd century BCE. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Artist's impression of a 7th-6th-century BCE Scythian warrior.