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A portrait of Major-General William Elphinstone (1782-1842) who commanded the army of the British East India Company in its infamous retreat from Kabul in January 1842 during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42...

Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Petersburg, who held off overwhelming Union troops, buying time for Robert E. Lee. Retouched version of a photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1860...

Confederate General Braxton Bragg, photograph by an unknown photographer, c. 1861-65, restoration by Adam Cuerden. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Lieutenant General Winfield Scott at West Point, N.Y., photograph by Charles D. Fredricks & Co., 10 June 1862. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The death of French General Louis Desaix at the Battle of Marengo, 14 June 1800; in the center left, Napoleon stands witness. Painting by Jean Broc, 1806. Palace of Versailles.

A photograph of General Claude Auchinleck (1884-1981) who was Commander-in-Chief of Allied forces in the Middle East and commander of the British Eighth Army during the First Battle of El Alamein (July 1942) during the...

Depiction of the murder of French General Theobald Dillon by his own men in the opening days of the War of the First Coalition. Pring by Joannes Bemme, c. 1800. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard in 1861. This portrait is a copy by artist Thomas Cantwell Healy of an original work by his brother George Peter Alexander Healy. It is the property of the Louisiana...

The Austrians charge against a line of French soldiers under General Claude Victor-Perrin at the Battle of Marengo (14 June 1800), by Benoit Perrier. Marengo Museum.

The death of General Richard Montgomery at the Battle of Quebec, 31 December 1775, climax of the American Invasion of Quebec (September 1775-June 1776). Oil on canvas by John Trumbull, 1786. Yale University...