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Unfinished limestone sculpture of Horemheb and his wife from the tomb of Horemheb at Saqqara, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, probably the reign of Ay, c. 1327-1323 BCE. The sculpture bears no inscription, and when it was acquired...

Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman and his staff officers, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1865. Standing, left to right: Oliver O. Howard, William B. Hazen, Jefferson C. Davis, and Joseph A. Mower. Sitting...

A 1924 photograph of General Erich von Ludendorff (1865-1937), Commander-in-Chief of the German Army during the First World War (1914-18). US National Archives

General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson during the American Civil War, painting by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau.

A 1940 photograph of German general (later field marshal) Ewald von Kleist (1881-1954). Kleist notably commanded a panzer division in Operation Barbarossa in the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

General Thomas Gage, who, in the early days of the American Revolution, served as commander-in-chief of all British armies in North America and as military governor of Massachusetts. Oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton...

Portrait of Benjamin Lincoln, a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (no relation to Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president). Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, October 1784. Independence...

Portrait of General Jean-Nicolas Houchard (1739-1793) who led the French Army of the North to victory against the Coalition at the Battle of Hondschoote, 6-8 September 1793. Houchard's failure to follow up on his victory...

A 1936 photograph of General Ludwig Beck (1880-1944). Beck was a conspirator in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Beck, if the attempt had been succesful, was to have replaced Hitler as the figurehead...

Portrait of Franklin Pierce in military garb, engraving by Waterman Lilly Ormsby, c. 1852. Before Franklin Pierce would come to hold the American presidency, he enlisted in the summer of 1846 to fight in the Mexican-American...