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An 1807 coloured engraving showing the East India Company commander General Gerard Lake (1744-1808) victorious at the battle of Laswari in November 1803 against the Maratha Confederacy during the Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1819...

An illustration from an 1881 issue of the Illustrated London News showing General Colley at the Battle of Majuba Hill. The battle was won by the Boers during the First Anglo-Boer War (1880-1).

General George B. McClellan and his wife, Ellen Mary Marcy, photograph, c. 1860-1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Confederate General John Bell Hood is wounded while leading his troops at the Battle of Chickamauga (19-20 September 1863). Illustration by an unknown artist, circa 1860s.

Napoleon Bonaparte in the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire Year VIII (9 November 1799), the coup that ended both the French Directory and the French Revolution. Oil on canvas painting by François Bouchot...

A 1923 photograph of the Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Taking prisoners in Napoleon's Italian Campaign, 1797, oil on canvas by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, c. 1801-1824. Palace of Versailles.

Portrait of George Washington as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. Oil on canvas by Rembrandt Peale, c. 1850. De Young Museum, San Francisco.

Antonio López de Santa Anna, lithographic print originally included in Lucas Alamán's Historia de Méjico, 1852. Santa Anna (1794-1876) was a central figure in the political and military course...

Benedict Arnold is wounded on the last day of the Battles of Saratoga (19 and 7 October 1777), by Alonzo Chappel, 1860. New York Public Library.