Images

The Virgin of Guadalupe with the Four Apparitions, painting by Nicolás Enríquez, Mexico, 1773. This image depicts Our Lady of Guadalupe, an image of the Virgin Mary specific to Mexico/New Spain and her four apparitions in December of 1531...

A model of the German howitzer 'Big Bertha', used during the First World War (1914-18). Made By Krupp, the gun could fire a shell weighing 1,786 lbs (810 kg) a distance of 10,000 yards (9,144 m). (Musée de l'Armée, Paris)

A stick grenade used by the German Army in the First World War (1914-8). (Imperial War Museums)

The Maschinengewehr 08 or MG08 and its successor the MG08/15 were the standard issue machine guns in the German Army throughout the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

A 1915-issue Parabellum-Pistole Modell 1908 (PO8), better known as a Luger after its designer George Luger. The gun was widely used in WWI and WWII by German and other national armed forces. (Imperial War Museums)

Portrait of Union cavalry general Philip H. Sheridan, photograph by Mathew Brady, 1864. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Virginia, Cold Harbor. Extreme line of Confederate Works, photographic print by John Reekie, April 1865. Depicted here are the makeshift Confederate breastworks put up at the left end of their line at the Battle of Cold Harbor (31 May to...

Virginia, Cold Harbor. A burial party on the Battlefield, photographic print by John Reekie, April 1865. A year after the Battle of Cold Harbor (31 May to 12 June 1864), burial delegations collect the skeletons of those killed in the battle...

Union assault on the Confederate breastworks at the Battle of Cold Harbor on 3 June 1864, sketch by Alfred R. Waud in Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization, June 25 1864.

A depiction of the Battle of Cold Harbor (31 May to 12 June 1864), print by Kurz & Allison, c. 1888. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.