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6 Machines That Shaped World War II - Tanks, Fighters, and the Industrial Power of Total War
The Second World War (1939–1945) pushed industrialized warfare to an unprecedented scale. Military effectiveness depended not only on weapons themselves but on the ability...
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Map of the Louisiana Purchase, North America in 1804 - U.S. Expansion, Rival Claims & Indigenous Nations
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was the United States' acquisition of France's territorial claim to approximately 828,000 square miles (2.14 million km²) of North...
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Map of North Africa and the Western Mediterranean c. 1065 - Almoravids, Zirids, Hilalian Migrations & Norman Sicily
Around 1065, North Africa and the western Mediterranean were undergoing political fragmentation, migration, and the rise of new powers. The Zirids...
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Millard Fillmore, US Presidential Candidate, 1856
Millard Fillmore, American Candidate for President of the United States, woodcut proof for a campaign banner by Baker & Godwin, c. 1856. Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth president of the United States...
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Millard Fillmore, Thirteenth President of the United States
Millard Fillmore, Thirteenth President of the United States, lithograph by Nathaniel Currier based on an 1856 photograph by Mathew B. Brady. The lithograph here shows Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth...
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Allegory of the Treaty of Hubertusburg
An allegory of the Treaty of Hubertusburg, which ended the Seven Years' War in Central Europe, engraving by Johann David Schleuen, 1763.
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Capture of Berlin, 1760
Depiction of the brief capture of Berlin by Russian troops, October 1760, oil on canvas by Alexander von Kotzebue, 1849.
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
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Charge of the Prussian Cuirassiers at the Battle of Zorndorf
The Battle of Zorndorf, oil on canvas by Wojciech Kossak, 1899.
Depicted here is the charge of the Prussian Cuirassiers at the Battle of Zorndorf (25 August 1758).
E.DIS AG, Potsdam.
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Aftermath of the Battle of Quiberon Bay
The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 21 November 1759: The Day After, oil on canvas by Richard Wright, 1760.
National Maritime Museum, London.
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King Frederick and His Army After the Battle of Leuthen
King Frederick the Great and his soldiers on the night after their climactic victory at the Battle of Leuthen (December 1757), oil on canvas by Wilhelm Camphausen, 1864. Sanssouci Palace, Brandenburg...
