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General George B. McClellan with staff and dignitaries, photograph appearing in The Photographic History of the Civil War (1911), 1861. From left to right: Gen. George W. Morell, Lt. Col. A. V. Colburn...

Portrait of George B. McClellan, oil on canvas by Julian Scott, 1888. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

President Abraham Lincoln with General George B. McClellan in McClellan's tent after the Battle of Antietam from the American Civil War, photograph by Alexander Gardner, 3 October 1862. Library of...

General George B. McClellan and his wife, Ellen Mary Marcy, photograph, c. 1860-1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Odysseus, the legendary king of Ithaca, belongs to the Greek Heroic Age, traditionally associated with the Trojan War near the end of the Late Bronze Age (conventionally c. 13th–12th centuries...

The Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291) emerged in the aftermath of the First Crusade (1096–1099) and became the most prestigious of the Crusader states...

A photograph showing a house in Oku, Tokyo destroyed by a US B-25 Mitchell bomber of the Doolittle Raid which attacked Japan on 18 April 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45).

A photograph of Lt-Colonel James H. Doolittle (1896-1993) – second from the left –and his flight crew about to set off in their B-25 Mitchell bomber on the Doolittle Raid which attacked Japan on 18 April 1942...

A photograph showing a B-25 Mitchell bomber taking off from the US aircraft carrier Hornet on its way to participating in the Doolittle Raid which attacked Japan on 18 April 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45). US...

A photograph showing the US aircraft carrier Hornet and a B-25 Mitchell bomber taking off on the Doolittle Raid which attacked Japan on 18 April 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial War Museums