Images

Skirmish in the Wilderness, oil on canvas painting by Winslow Homer, 1864. Depicted here is an encounter in the Battle of the Wilderness (5-7 May 1864), one of the bloodiest and most desperate engagements of the American...

Battle of the Wilderness; Desperate Fight on the Orange C.H. Plank Road, Near Todd's Tavern, May 6th, 1864, lithograph by Kurz & Allison, c. 1887. This work depicts the Battle of the Wilderness (5-7 May 1864), one of the...

The Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE) represents one of the high points of imperial Chinese history, reaching its widest territorial extent during the reign of Emperor Gaozong (reign 649–683 CE). By the late 7th...

A 1916 photograph of German defensive positions on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

A photograph of British soldiers with wounded German soldiers, taken during the First Battle of the Somme (July-November 1916) during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

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.