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With the appearance of the legionary, the Roman army was able to maintain a vast empire that totally embraced the Mediterranean Sea. Although the success of the army rested on the backs of the foot-soldiers and cavalry...

Josef Mengele (1911-1979) was a Nazi doctor who performed horrific pseudo-scientific experiments on detainees in the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was a medical officer from 1943 to 1945. Thousands...

A photograph of Alois Hoellriegl giving evidence of Nazi atrocities at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-6). Hoellriegl was a guard at the Mauthausen concentration camp. (Imperial War Museums)

Camp Garnett, part of the Battle of Rich Mountain (11 July 1861) in the American Civil War, photograph by Brian M. Powell, Randolph County, West Virginia, 16 March 2006. This was the site of the camp...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches the camp of the Shoshones, August 1805. Oil on canvas painting by Charles Marion Russell, 1918. Gilcrease Museum.

The French camp on the eve of the Battle of Austerlitz, 1 December 1805. Oil on canvas painting by Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, 1808.

The Attack on Black Kettle's Cheyenne Camp, an illustration of the Washita Massacre/Battle of Washita of November 1868, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, NY, New York, December 1868.

Jacobin marchers fight French soldiers at the camp of Grenelle in September 1796, after trying to recruit the army for an attack on the French Directory. Engraving by Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, 1802. National Library...

Remnants of Camp F, one of several legionary camps of Legio X Fretensis just outside the circumvallation wall around Masada (modern-day Israel). Legio X Fretensis participated in Vespasian and Titus’ battle against the Jewish Revolt...

Artist's impression depciting a military encampment in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages or Late Antiquity. No specific culture is depicted, but it could be Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Goths, or warriors of...