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View of Great Zimbabwe's 'Great Enclosure'. This is the largest collection of ruins in southern Africa. The Gokomere Empire flourished here from the 11th Century CE to its collapse in the early 15th century CE.

The conical tower of the Great Enclosure of Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe. Built in the 13-14th century CE using granite, the purpose of the structure is not known.

A section of the Great Enclosure of Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe. Built in the 13-14th century CE using granite, the wall is 5.5 metres (18 ft.) thick in places and 9.7 metres (32 ft.) high.

A portion of the Terracotta Army, the clay life-size army in the tomb of the Qin emperor Shi Huangdi. c. 210 BCE, Shaanxi Province, China.

A lithograph propaganda poster encouraging support of the Red Army by an unknown artist, 1919. The poster features two figures: on the right a soldier in a cossack-style hat and coat, holding a rifle, and on the left a proletarian...

To Arms! To Arms! 100 Men for the United States Army!, military recruitment poster in Millersburg, Ohio, printed broadside (notice); proclamation by T. L. Hart, 01 February 1847. This recruiting poster was part of...

The War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-1814), known in Germany as the Wars of Liberation, was the penultimate conflict of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). The Sixth Coalition, which included Russia, Austria, Prussia, the...

A portrait of General Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916), who was Sirdar of the Egyptian Army from 1892. In this capacity, Kitchener led an Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese army into Sudan and won the battle of Omdurman...

La Grande Armée was the military instrument through which Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of the French, reign 1804–1814; 1815) transformed warfare during the Napoleonic Wars...

The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) was a major conflict fought between the great powers of Europe, sparked by a dispute over the right of a woman – Maria Theresa...