Images

Lieutenant General Winfield Scott at West Point, N.Y., photograph by Charles D. Fredricks & Co., 10 June 1862. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Maria DeHart Mayo (1789–1862), wife of General Winfield Scott, oil on canvas by Asher Brown Durand, 1831. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

General Winfield Scott at the age of 49, painting by George Catlin, 1835.

Winged Nike relief, photograph by Juan Ángel Piqueras, Ephesus, Selçuk, İzmir, Türkiye, 2 March 2026. This marble relief of the Greek goddess of victory Nike (known to the Romans as Victoria) is dated to the 1st-2nd century CE. The relief...

The Parthian, or Arsacid, Empire (c. 247 BCE–224 CE) was an Iranian imperial state that emerged as Seleucid authority weakened in northeastern Iran. Arsaces I (reign c. 247–211 BCE), leader of the Parni, established the dynasty, but its transformation...

William the Conqueror’s campaign for London formed the decisive second phase of the Norman invasion of England in 1066. After defeating Harold II (reign January–October 1066) at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October, William, Duke of Normandy...

Between c. 1100 and 600 BCE, the Phoenician city-states of the Levant, especially Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and Arwad, developed one of the ancient Mediterranean’s most dynamic maritime trading systems. Rather than expanding through unified territorial...

Portrait of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, oil on canvas by Charles-Philippe Larivière, France, 1846. Ibrahim Pasha was the son of Mehmed Ali Pasha, the Egyptian governor who defied Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II and launched a military campaign in 1831...

Orašac Assembly, 14 February 1804, drawing included in Konstantin N. Nenadović's Život i dela velikog Đorđa Petrovića Kara-Đorđa I, p. 48, 1903. The Orašac Assembly saw 300 Serbian chiefs and rebels organize to revolt against Ottoman rule...

The Congress of Vienna (September 1814–June 1815) was a major diplomatic settlement that sought to rebuild Europe after more than two decades of revolutionary and Napoleonic warfare (1792–1815). Led principally by Austria, Russia, Great Britain...