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Depiction of the Paris National Guard on its way to join the army, September 1792, oil on canvas by Léon Cogniet, 1836. Palace of Versailles.

Battle of Mount Tabor between the French and the Ottoman Empire, 16 April 1799 during Napoleon's Campaign in Egypt and Syria; the battle resulted in a French victory, although the French would subsequently lose the Siege of Acre. Painting...

Job, oil on canvas painting by Léon Bonnat, 1880. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

The Birth of Pennsylvania 1680, reproduction of an oil painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1932. Library of Congress, Washington D. C.

French General Charles-Pierre Augereau (1757-1816) leading troops at the Battle of Castiglione. Oil on canvas by Paul Émile Léon Perboyre, c. 19th century.

Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785, after serving as commissioner to France during the American Revolution, oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, c. late 19th century. Private collection.

The Bolshevik Revolution occurred on 7 November 1917 (old calendar 25 October) and established a new republic: Soviet Russia. The Bolsheviks were radical socialists led by Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), whose goal was a fairer society where...

The Second Crusade (1147-1149) was a military campaign organised by the Pope and European nobles to recapture the city of Edessa in Mesopotamia which had fallen in 1144 to the Muslim Seljuk Turks. Despite an army of 60,000 and the presence...

In medieval Europe, a code of ethics known as chivalry developed which included rules and expectations that the nobility would, at all times, behave in a certain manner. Chivalry was, in addition, a religious, moral and social code which...

Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) was the last of the Romanov emperors, murdered along with his family during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Insisting on maintaining as far as possible the autocratic rule begun by his ancestors...