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The court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Here in attendance at the court in Agra is Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644) who secured permission for the East India Company the right to set up its first trading post at Surat on the west...

A c. 1591 CE portrait by Gheeraerts the Younger of the English mariner, privateer and explorer Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540-1596 CE). Drake's arms are shown in the top left corner and the globe is in reference to his circumnavigation of the...

An illustration by the 19th century CE artist Walter Crane depicting Sir Bedevere throwing King Arthur's sword Excalibur back into the lake from whence it came.

General Sir William Howe, commander of the British forces during the American Revolutionary War. Mezzotint by Richard Purcell, published by John Morris, London, November 1777. Anne S. K. Brown Military History Collection at Brown University...

A 1598 CE painting by William Segar of the Elizabethan adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618 CE). (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin)

A 17th-century illustration of the buccaneer of the Spanish Main and Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica, Sir Henry Morgan (c. 1635-1688). (From an early edition of The Buccaneers of America by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin)

Etching depicting Sir William Wallace (c. 1270-1305 CE) who was a Scottish knight and national hero who fought for his country’s independence from England. (From Smollett's "History of England", 1757 CE)

Posthumous portrait of Major General Sir Isaac Brock (1769-1812), oil on canvas by George Theodore Berthon, 1883. Provincial Archives of Ontario.

A portrait by Nicholas Hilliard of Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618 CE), the English courtier, soldier, mariner, explorer and historian. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Sir Henry Clinton, commander-in-chief of the British army from 1778-1782 during the American Revolutionary War. Portrait by Andrea Soldi, c. 1765, American Museum & Gardens, Bath, UK.