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The death of US General Zebulon Pike at the Battle of York (27 April 1813) during the War of 1812, engraving by an unknown artist, 1839. Canadian Military History Gateway, Department of National Defence.

Fort York (at modern-day Toronto, Canada), the site of the Battle of York in the War of 1812, watercolor by Sempronius Stretton, 1804. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.

US ships arrive in the harbor just before the Battle of York (modern-day Toronto, Canada), 27 April 1813. Watercolors by Owen Staples, 1914.

Zebulon Pike, American military officer and explorer. He is best known for the mountain in the Rockies that bears his name (Pike's Peak) and for his death at the Battle of York during the War of 1812. Oil on paper portrait by Charles Willson...

Construction of the sloop-of-war HMS Sir Isaac Brock at York, Upper Canada. Named after a fallen British general, the ship was intended to give Britain superiority on Lake Ontario; it was still unfinished when it was burnt during the Battle...

A photograph of Claus von Stauffenberg (1907-44) and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, conspirators in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Stauffenberg placed the bomb in Hitler's command centre but the Führer survived...

A photograph of Carl Goerdeler (1884-1945). Goerdeler was a conspirator in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Goerdeler, if the attempt had been succesful, was to have replaced Hitler as the chancellor of Germany...

A 1936 photograph of General Ludwig Beck (1880-1944). Beck was a conspirator in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Beck, if the attempt had been succesful, was to have replaced Hitler as the figurehead of the...

A photo taken at one of Adolf Hitler's WWII command centres, the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia. On the far left is Claus von Stauffenberg (1907-44) who placed a bomb in a command hut there on 20 July 1944 in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate...

The remains of the command centre hut in which a bomb exploded in the hope of killing the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944. (German Federal Archives)