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A 1942 photograph of General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), British general and then field marshal during the Second World War (1939-45). He is here seen in a Grant Tank as he commands the British Eighth Army in North Africa. (Imperial War...

Death of General Hugh Mercer during the Battle of Princeton on 3 January 1777. Mercer is depicted in the center, being mortally wounded by British bayonets after refusing to surrender; British Captain William Leslie is also mortally wounded...

Death of General Brock, depicting British General Issac Brock leading a charge moments before he is killed at the Battle of Queenston Heights (13 October 1812), oil on canvas by Roy Greenaway, 1960. Government of Ontario Art Collection.

A 1943 photograph of General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), British general and then field marshall during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer (1864-1927) who infamously ordered his men to shoot upon an unarmed crowd killing hundreds and wounding over 1,500 men women and children in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 in Amritsar...

A photograph of the German general Erich von Manstein (1887-1973), shown on the left, after the Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-2 during the Second World War (1939-45). The port in the Crimea was captured by Axis forces commanded by Manstein...

Unfinished limestone sculpture of Horemheb and his wife from the tomb of Horemheb at Saqqara, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, probably the reign of Ay, c. 1327-1323 BCE. The sculpture bears no inscription, and when it was acquired by the British Museum...

A photograph of the United States Army general George Patton (1885-1945). Patton was a key commander in the Second World War (1939-45).

General Order No. 3, issued in Galveston, Texas, 19 June 1865.

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...