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The armies of Carthage permitted the city to forge the most powerful empire in the western Mediterranean from the 6th to 3rd centuries BCE. Although by tradition a seafaring nation with a powerful navy, Carthage, by necessity...

Military supremacy of the seas could be a crucial factor in the success of any land campaign, and the Romans well knew that a powerful naval fleet could supply troops and equipment to where they were most needed in as short...

Daniel Morgan (l. c. 1735-1802) was an American frontiersman and soldier, most famous for leading a corps of riflemen during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). He rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Continental...

Hanuman is one of several zoomorphic characters in Indian mythology, but is the only wholly animal figure who is revered as a god today. The mythic texts speak of him as a monkey child of the Wind God, as possessing enormous strength...

The Maschinengewehr 08 or MG08 and its successor the MG08/15 were the standard issue machine guns in the German Army throughout the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

A 1918 photograph taken on the Italian Front showing a gas shell attack and British soldiers wearing gas masks blocking the road ahead. Poisonous gas shells were developed during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War...

A stick grenade used by the German Army in the First World War (1914-8). (Imperial War Museums)

A model of the German howitzer 'Big Bertha', used during the First World War (1914-18). Made By Krupp, the gun could fire a shell weighing 1,786 lbs (810 kg) a distance of 10,000 yards (9,144 m). (Musée de l'Armée, Paris...

A 1915-issue Parabellum-Pistole Modell 1908 (PO8), better known as a Luger after its designer George Luger. The gun was widely used in WWI and WWII by German and other national armed forces. (Imperial War Museums)

Bronze shield from Olympia, 6th century BCE. Olympia Archaeological Museum.