Images

A photograph of Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1861-1928), commander of the British Expeditionary Froce in France and Belgium from 1915 onwards during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A replica of an early Bowie Knife of the type made for Rezin Bowie and commissioned by the Bowies to Searles and Constable. This is a copy of the Fowler Bowie Knife currently displayed at the Alamo. James or Resin Bowie gave...

A pile of expended artillery shells fired during the First Battle of the Somme (July-November 1916) in the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

Red River at Alexandria, Louisiana. Approximating what the sandbar on the Mississippi River might have looked like at the Sandbar Fight of 1827, which made James Bowie famous. Photograph by Billy Hathorn, 2008.

A 1917 photograph of a destroyed British Mark I tank, a relic of the First Battle of the Somme (July-November 1916) in the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

Portrait of Niccolò Paganini, lithographic print by Charles George Lewis after Edwin Landseer, 1849. Depicted here is the famed Italian violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) in three-quarter length and...

Bowie knife, blade marked "G. Wostenholm & Son, Washington Work, I-XL, the real IXL knife, The Hunters Companion." The "Bowie knife" is famous from the Sandbar Fight of 1827, during which James 'Jim' Bowie first used such a knife...

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld, Duc d'Anville, painting by F. de Troy. The Duc d'Anville led an ill-fated military expedition to Nova Scotia during King George's War (1744-1748) to engage...

The Siege of Louisbourg, painting by Domenick d’Andrea and Rick Reeves. Depicted here are New England provincial soldiers at the 1745 Siege of Louisbourg during King George's War (1744-1748). National...

A German steel gas alarm gong, to be struck in the trenches as a warning when under attack by poisonous gas during the First World War (1914-1918). (Imperial War Museums)