Images

A map illustrating the geopolitical shifts and escalating tensions in Europe on the eve of the Second World War in 1939. Beginning with the Saarland's rejoining of Germany in 1935, followed by the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936...

A 1944 photograph of Albert Speer (1905-81), German Minister of Armaments, Erhard Milch (1892-72), responsible for German aircraft production, and Willy Messerschmitt (1898-78), the aircraft designer. (German Federal Archives).

Monument erected in 1905 to commemorate the Battle of Beecher Island of 1868 known to the Cheyenne as "The Fight Where Roman Nose Was Killed." The image is incorrectly dated to 1899. A wooden monument was erected at the site in 1899, but...

Plains Indian headdress such as would have been worn by Roman Nose (Cheyenne warrior) in the 19th century. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, USA.

The defiance of Roman Nose, photographic reproduction of an illustration by R. F. Zagbaum from Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. 91, #541 June, 1895, p. 53., depicting the Northern Cheyenne warrior/war chief Roman Nose taunting US army forces...

The death of Roman Nose (Cheyenne Warrior) at the Battle of Beecher Island (1895), illustration from page 321 of Illustrated Battles of the Nineteenth Century by Archibald Forbes, Major Arthur Griffiths, et al., London, 1895. The image...

An illustration of Continental Army infantry c. 1779-1783, color lithograph by Henry Alexander Ogden, c. 1897. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C.

A British grenadier from the 40th Regiment of Foot circa 1767. Published in the Historical Records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment by R. H. Raymond Smythies, 1894.

March to Valley Forge, a depiction of General George Washington leading the Continental Army to Valley Forge in December 1777. Oil on canvas by William Brooke Thomas Trego, 1883. Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

Fort Mifflin, which, alongside Fort Mercer, defended the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Painting by Seth Eastman, 1870. U.S. Army Center of Military History.