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Auguste Picot de Dampierre (1756-1793), commander-in-chief of the French Army of the North during the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797). Mortally wounded at the Battle of Raismes on 8 May 1793, his name is among those inscribed on the...

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827), second son of King George III of the United Kingdom. He led the British forces during the Flanders Campaign of 1792-1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars and later served as commander-in-chief...

Battle of Famars, 23 May 1793, the Coalition army charging against the French, engraving by Mather Brown, 1796.

This map illustrates the territorial expansion of the Roman Republic from approximately 260 to 30 BCE, highlighting how a once-local power in central Italy transformed into a Mediterranean empire. From early campaigns in Sicily and Spain...

Roman sestertius, minted in Rome, 37-38 CE, under Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 CE). Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

Bars of orichalcum. Archaeological Museum of Gela, Sicily, Italy.

Insurrection on 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795), engraving by Isidore Stanislas Helman and Jean Duplessis-Bertaux after Charles Monnet, 1796. National Library of France, Paris.

Massacre of the Jacobin prisoners in Lyon, 4 May 1795, during the First White Terror in the French Revolution (1789-1799). Engraving by Raffet, 1834

Uprising of 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795) against the policies of the Thermidorian Reaction during the later stages of the French Revolution (1789-1799). Here, the insurrectionists wave the severed head of Jean-Bertrand Féraud in the...

Two dandyish muscadins strolling through the streets of Paris, looking for Jacobins to attack with their wooden clubs (which they nicknamed constitutions). Painting by Eugène Lampsonius.