Images

Davy Crockett, oil on canvas painting by Chester Harding, 1834. Harding's portrait, a marked depiction away from the consummate frontiersman David 'Davy' Crockett (1786-1836) came to be known as, was painted while Crockett was a Tennessee...

The chapel of the Alamo, photograph by Betsy Mark, 2004. The Alamo, originally a Spanish mission, was a fortress garrisoned first by the Spanish, then the Mexican Army after the Mexican War of Independence, and later, most famously, by Texian...

The Alamo at night, photograph by A. Michael Uhlmann, January 2015. The Alamo, originally a Spanish mission, was a fortress garrisoned first by the Spanish, then the Mexican Army after the Mexican War of Independence, and later, most famously...

The Alamo, photograph by Betsy Mark, February 2004. The Alamo, originally a Spanish mission, was a fortress garrisoned first by the Spanish, then the Mexican Army after the Mexican War of Independence, and later, most famously, by Texian...

Ruins of the Church of El Alamo, illustration originally included in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 1854. The Alamo, originally a Spanish mission, was a fortress garrisoned first by the Spanish, then the Mexican Army after the...

Presidio La Bahía, photograph by Ernest Mettendorf, 2008. The Presidio La Bahía was initially constructed as a Spanish fortress but later fell into the hands of the new Mexican state after the Mexican War of Independence. It changed garrisons...

Bal des Ardents or the Ball of the Burning Men (28 January 1393), illustration in the Chronicles of Jean Froissart, FR 2646, folio 176 recto, 15th century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

A 1919 photograph of a Kuperjanov partisan battalion in Estonia during the Russian Civil War of 1918-22. (National Archives of Estonia)

A 1919 photograph of a Kolchak unit of the White army which fought during the Russian Civil War (1918-22).

Tomb of Raziya Sultan, photograph by Varun Shiv Kapur, Delhi, 17 November 2015. After a coup plot and uprising against her by powerful nobles, Razia Sultan was killed on 14 October 1240. She was buried initially in Kaithal, but her body...