Images

Washita River, Oklahoma, USA: Vicinity of the Washita Massacre of November 1868 where Black Kettle and his wife were killed trying to escape across the river.

The Attack on Black Kettle's Cheyenne Camp, an illustration of the Washita Massacre/Battle of Washita of November 1868, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, NY, New York, December 1868.

The view looking southwest from the Massacre Canyon monument, on the south side of US Highway 34 northeast of Trenton, Nebraska. The site is infamous for the Battle of Massacre Canyon of 1873 when a Sioux coalition attacked and killed a Pawnee...

Sioux Chief Two Strike (l. c. 1831-1915) of the Brule band of Lakota Sioux.

The Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944, commonly known as D-Day, marked one of the most significant operations of the Second World War (1939-1945) and the largest amphibious invasion in military history. As the opening phase of Operation...

North American female snapping turtle.

North American Box Turtle (Eastern Box Turtle).

A photograph showing British troops moving inland off Sword Beach after the D-Day Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944. The town is La Brèche d'Hermanville. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of an abandoned British flail tank on Sword Beach during the D-Day Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of Pegasus Bridge on the Caen Canal after its capture on D-Day 6 June 1944 by British paratroopers. Control of the bridge was vital to the eastern flank of the Allied Normandy Landings, preventing German panzer divisions from...