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Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) as First Consul of France, oil on canvas by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1804, Curtius Museum, Liège.

Sketch of the Alamo by Mary Ann Maverick, 1838. Published in Rena Maverick Green's Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick, 1921. This is one of the earliest drawings depicting the Alamo, a Spanish mission that became a fortress garrisoned first by...

The term “First Thanksgiving” refers to the account of the 1621 event as given by the Plymouth Colony’s chroniclers William Bradford (l. 1590-1657) and Edward Winslow (l. 1595-1655) in Mourt’s Relation. Painting by JLG Ferris, 1932 Library...

Title page of Sir Henry Billingsley's first English version of Euclid's Elements, 1570.

This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube, monitor Cern 57503) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first web server on the World Wide Web. It is shown here as displayed in 2005 at Microcosm, the public science museum at CERN where Berners-Lee was...

A view of the first-class dining saloon on RMS Empress of Ireland which sank after a collision in 1914. Photograph taken in 1906. (Royal Museums Greenwich Collection)

Italian prisoners of war at Harar, capital of the Ethiopian province of the same name. The soldiers, made prisoners during the First Italo-Ethiopian War, are awaiting repatriation to Italy. The picture was taken in March 1897 by the second...

The first meeting of Washington and Lafayette, Philadelphia, 3 Aug 1777, lithograph, published by Currier & Ives, c. 1876. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Sam Houston, painting by unknown artist, 1836. Sam Houston (1793-1863), propelled by his victory at the Battle of San Jacinto and defeat of the Mexican army in the Texas Revolution, became the first president of the Republic of Texas, a...

A depiction of the first day of the Battle of Tourcoing, 17 May 1794. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022; superimposed on OpenStreetMap.