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Field Marshal Freytag and Prince Adolphus of Great Britain are captured by French troops during a retreat on the first day of the Battle of Hondschoote, 6 September 1793, during the War of the First Coalition. Prince Adolphus quickly escaped...

The Battle of Poitiers on 19 September 1356 CE was the second great battle of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453 CE) after Crécy (1346 CE) and, once again, it was the English who won. Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376 CE), son of Edward III...

An 1846 family portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter showing Queen Victoria (r. 1837-1901), Albert, Prince Consort, and their then five children. (Royal Collection)

The third Mughal Emperor Akbar's (1540-1605) grandson Shah Jahan (1592-1666) as a young prince. He would become the fifth Mughal Emperor and hold the title of Shah Jahan the Magnificient. Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, by Abu'l Hasan...

A detail of the sandstone warrior figures often called the “Prince of Glauberg’, excavated at the site in Hesse, Germany. It is an example of La Tène culture sculpture and dates to the second half of the 5th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum...

A later Mughal painting, as practiced at provincial centers such as Lucknow during the 18th century, where "a less imperial and more leisurely, graceful style" was adopted. This painting depicts a Mughal prince and princess, accompanied by...

An artist's depiction of a bedridden young prince in the ancient Mediterranean, likely Greece or Macedon. From the game Old World.

Diorite statue of Gudea, prince of the state of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia who ruled c. 2144–2124 BCE. From Girsu (Irak), around 2120 BCE. Louvre Lens, France.

This basal stele depicts prince Kilamuwa accompanied by a servant. Circa 830 BCE. Found at one of the halls of a building at the citadel of Sam'al/Zincirli, modern-day Southern Turkey. (Pergamon Museum, Berlin)

Prince Józef Poniatowski leading Polish troops during the wars of the 1790s, painting by Aleksander Orłowski, c. 1809-1813. Private collection.