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This antique map of Italy shows the department of Sesia under the First French Empire. It was created in the early 19th century by French geographer Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire and is part of the Atlas National de France. The map reflects the...

Jean Lannes (1769-1809), 1st Duke of Montebello, a marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. Oil on canvas portrait painting by Julie Volpelière after an original by Antoine-François Gérard, 1834. In the Musée de l'Armée...

This antique map of Italy shows the Marengo department under the First French Empire. It was produced in the early 19th century by French geographer Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire and is part of the Atlas National de France. The map reflects the...

This antique map of Belgium depicts the Forêts department under the First French Empire. It was created in the early 19th century by French geographer Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire and is part of the Atlas National de France. The map illustrates...

Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770-1823), Duke of Auerstedt and a marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). Nicknamed the "Iron Marshal" for the strict discipline he imposed on his Corps, Davout never lost a battle and...

This antique map of Germany represents the Mont-Tonnerre department under the First French Empire. It was produced in the early 19th century by French geographer Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire and is part of the Atlas National de France. The map...

This antique map of Germany depicts the department of the Saar under the First French Empire. It was produced in the early 19th century by French geographer Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire and is part of the Atlas National de France. The map illustrates...

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort by the US Congress to resolve a sectional dispute between the 'free states' of the North and the 'slave states' of the South. Hoping to hinder the westward expansion of slavery – and thereby limit...

Ancient Egyptian writing is known as hieroglyphics ('sacred carvings') and developed at some point prior to the Early Dynastic Period (c. 3150 -2613 BCE). According to some scholars, the concept of the written word was first developed in...

Blitzkrieg ('lightning war') is a military tactic combining air and land forces deployed at speed against the enemy's weaker points while the rear lines are simultaneously disrupted by acts of sabotage and bombing. Speed, concentration, and...