Images

Juan Seguín's grave and monument in the City of Seguin, Texas. Photograph by Billy Hathorn, 2013.

Battle of Spottsylvania, chromolithograph by L. Prang & Co. after Thure De Thulstrup, 1887. Illustrated here is a scene from the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (8-21 May 1864), a bloody engagement of the American Civil War. Library...

Battle of Spottsylvania, lithograph by Kurz & Allison, c. 1888. Illustrated here is a scene from the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (8-21 May 1864), a bloody engagement of the American Civil War. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Dead Confederate soldier, photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1864. Depicted here is a fallen soldier from the Second Corps of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, killed on 19 May 1864 during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House...

Portrait of John Sedgwick, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1860-1864. Depicted here is Major General John Sedgwick, commander of the VI Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War. He was killed on 9 May 1864 during the...

Hancock's Corps Assaulting the Works at the "Bloody Angle", pen and black ink on wove paper by William Brooke Thomas Trego, 1887. Depicted here is Major General Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps assaulting the "Bloody Angle" on 12 May 1864...

A Mills Bomb hand grenade, developed and used by the British Army during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of a British Mark IV tank, used during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of a Rolls-Royce armoured car in the Middle East campaign during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

A 1918 British poster to raise funds for weapons during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)