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A map showing the route that Alexander the Great took to conquer Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Bactria.

Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was a Confederate general from North Carolina, best known for commanding the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). A strict disciplinarian...

A map indicating the location and military positions taken in the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE between the Persian invading forces of Xerxes I against a small Greek force led by Spartan king Leonidas. Defending...

A map showing classical Greece and the Aegaean islands.

A map illustrating the position of Greek (blue) and Persian (red) forces at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE. The allied Greek city-states led by Athens would win the battle and repel the invasion of Greece by Persian...

A map showing the early expansions of Rome, in the 2nd century BC.

Routes of the Barbarian invaders into the Roman Empire during the Migration Age.

Map of the Alliances of the Peloponnesian War, as well as the respective strategies of the opposing factions of Sparta and Athens, and their allies.

The distribution of the respective fleets of the Greek allied states (blue) against the Persian forces of Xerxes (red), 480 BCE. The Greeks would outmanoeuvre the Persians in the shallow waters of the straights and win...

A map of the battle of Gaugamela depicting Alexander the Great attacking Darius III, a move that led to victory.