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A photograph of Pegasus Bridge on the Caen Canal after its capture on D-Day 6 June 1944 by British paratroopers. Control of the bridge was vital to the eastern flank of the Allied Normandy Landings, preventing German panzer divisions from...

Proposed Sydney Harbour Bridge design by Francis Ernest Stowe, Australian architect and engineer, 1922. The three-span bridge design that would link Millers Point with Balls Head and Balmain, featuring a central tower that would be a war...

The Eleutherna Bridge on Crete is a well-preserved Hellenistic corbel arch bridge with a single span of 3.95 m. It was built with large limestone blocks in dry masonry around 330 - 367 BCE when a major construction project took place at Eleutherna...

The Roman bridge of Córdoba is located in the Historic centre of Córdoba (declared a World Heritage Site in 1984), Andalusia, southern Spain. It was originally built in the early 1st century BCE across the Guadalquivir river, though it has...

Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction, with two airplanes-Charles Ulm's "Southern Sun" & a Gypsy Moth. Photomontage by Edward Searl. The aeroplanes were added to the already dramatic image of the two halves of the Harbour Bridge arch...

Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon near Bristol, England. The bridge was based on a daring design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59). It was opened to the public in December 1864.

A hand-colored lithograph of the Niagara Suspension Bridge, showing the Niagara Falls in the background, by Charles Parsons (1821-1910). Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad often reached freedom in Canada by crossing this bridge...

The Battle of Raismes was a major engagement in the Flanders Campaign of 1792-1795, during the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797). It saw a French Republican army under the command of General Dampierre attack a larger Coalition force...

The Battle of Gaugamela (1st October 331 BCE, also known as the Battle of Arbela) was the final meeting between Alexander the Great of Macedon and King Darius III of Persia. After this victory, Alexander was, without question, the King of...

The Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) was the last major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), fought by a French army under Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) against two armies of the Seventh Coalition. Waterloo resulted in...