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The Estates-General of 1789 was a meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commons. Summoned by King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) to deal with financial and societal crises, it...

A 1942 photograph of General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), British general and then field marshal during the Second World War (1939-45). He is here seen in a Grant Tank as he commands the British Eighth Army in...

Death of General Brock, depicting British General Issac Brock leading a charge moments before he is killed at the Battle of Queenston Heights (13 October 1812), oil on canvas by Roy Greenaway, 1960...

General Charles Lee, American Revolutionary War general. Illustration from page 92 of Geschichte der kriege in und ausser Europa by Christoph Heinrich, Korn. Nürnberg : G.N. Raspe, 1776-84. Library of Congress, Prints and...

General Abner Doubleday, photograph by an unknown photographer, although likely either Mathew Brady or Levin Corbin Handy, 1855-1865. This portrait shows General Abner Doubleday, an officer of the US Army during the American...

General Napoleon Bonaparte as commander-in-chief of the Army of Italy, 1796-97. Painting by Edouard Detaille, 1907.

A photograph of General Erwin Rommel with his staff during the North Africa Campaign of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1629 portrait of the mercenary General Albrecht von Wallenstein, leader of the Imperial forces during the Thirty Years' War. (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich)

US General Winfield Scott occupies Mexico City on 14 September 1847 at the end of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). By Carl Nebel, 1851. New York Public Library.

A photograph of General Erwin Rommel and his Chief of Staff, Fritz Bayerlein during the North Africa Campaign of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)