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La Grande Armée was the military instrument through which Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of the French, reign 1804–1814; 1815) transformed warfare during the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). Built upon the reforms of the French Revolutionary armies...

The destruction of US Navy battleships while stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, 07 December 1941. Damage following the Japanese aerial bomb and torpedo attack at Pearl Harbor. Visible here are the USS West Virginia...

The capsized USS Oklahoma and the USS Maryland, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, 07 December 1941. The damage to US Navy battleships following the Japanese aerial bomb and torpedo attack at Pearl Harbor. To the left of the...

Wreckage of USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, 07 December 1941. The wreck of the US Navy battleship Arizona following the Japanese aerial bomb and torpedo attack at Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona was one of the...

USS Arizona ablaze at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, 07 December 1941. Following the aerial bomb and torpedo attack by the Japanese, the wreckage of the USS Arizona is burning and pouring smoke. Library of Congress, Washington...

The USS California sinking down onto the floor of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, December 1941. The destruction from the Japanese attack on the US Navy at Pearl Harbor. Aerial bombs and torpedoes were dropped, leaving the...

By the 18th century, European power had become truly global through a combination of maritime expansion, state-backed commerce, and military force. The leading Atlantic empires, Spain, Portugal, the Dutch Republic, England, and France, had...

The collapse of the Mycenaean palatial system (c. 1200–1100 BCE) initiated a prolonged period of demographic, political, and cultural reorganization across the Aegean. During the Early Iron Age (c. 1100–800 BCE), centralized authority weakened...

Calypso, oil on canvas by George Hitchcock, c. 1906. Hitchcock here renders the mythological nymph Calypso, famously told as the captor of Odysseus in Homer's ancient Greek epic The Odyssey (c. 8th century BCE). Indianapolis Museum of Art...

Ulysses on the Island of the Goddess Calypso, etching and engraving on laid paper by Willem Basse, 1634. Odysseus (Ulysses) hews timber to construct a raft on the shore of Ogygia, the island on which the nymph Calypso has kept him captive...