Death: Did you mean...?

A scene from the 16th-century Codex Telleriano-Remensis showing the death of Pedro de Alvarado (c. 1485-1541), the Spanish conquistador who became the first governor of Guatemala in 1527. Alvarado was killed in Mexico...

An illustration showing the arrest, trial, and execution of Diego de Almagro (c. 1475-1538) the Spanish conquistador who participated in expeditions of conquest to Peru and Chile. Almagro was strangled to death in Cusco...

A dramatized depiction of the death of British General Sir Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights (13 October 1812), by John David Kelly, 1896. Library & Archives Canada.

An Attic red-figure stamnos depicting the death of Orpheus, c. 470 BCE. (Louvre, Paris)

The death of French General Louis Desaix at the Battle of Marengo, 14 June 1800; in the center left, Napoleon stands witness. Painting by Jean Broc, 1806. Palace of Versailles.

The death of Major Patrick Ferguson during the Battle of Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780. Engraving after Alonzo Chappel, 1863. Anne S. K. Brown Collection at Brown University.

The death of Mercutio in Act III Scene I of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. By Edwin Austin Abbey, 1904.

The death of General Richard Montgomery at the Battle of Quebec, 31 December 1775, climax of the American Invasion of Quebec (September 1775-June 1776). Oil on canvas by John Trumbull, 1786. Yale University...

The death of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) at the Battle of Shiloh, 6 April 1862. By Henry Mosler, 1862.

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.