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Assyrian alabaster panel showing Babylonian prisoners in a camp, from the North Palace at Nineveh, Northern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, Neo-Assyrian Empire, reign of Ashurbanipal II, 668-630 BCE. To the...

Assyrian relief, from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, Iraq. This is one of a series of panels that showed Tiglath-Pileser III's military campaigns in modern-day southern Iraq. On the left...

Assyrian relief depicting a siege, from Room XIV, the South-West Palace at Nineveh, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, Neo-Assyrian Empire, reign of Sennacherib, 700-692 BCE. The attack starts with slingers...

Alabaster bas-relief sowing a beheaded soldier; he was an Assyrian enemy. An Assyrian cavalry is passing over him. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 9 (top), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud...

Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805), 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl Cornwallis, was a British military officer and statesman best known for surrendering to George Washington at the Siege of Yorktown, the final decisive engagement of the...

The Atlanta Campaign (7 May to 2 September 1864) was a major military campaign in the western theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). It saw a large Union force under Major...

Map of the Battle of Cannae showing how Hannibal encircles and defeats the Roman army.

Assyria has a long history, beginning in northern Mesopotamia and then expanding during the Neo-Assyrian Empire from Mesopotamia through Asia Minor, and down through Egypt. The empire began in the...

The Conway Cabal was a movement undertaken by American military officers and political leaders to remove General George Washington from command of the Continental Army during the winter of 1777-78. These Patriot leaders had lost...

Batavian revolt was a rebellion of the Batavians against the Romans in 69-70 CE. After initial successes by their commander Julius Civilis, the Batavians were ultimately defeated by the Roman general Quintus Petillius Cerialis...