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The Electors of the Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) functioned as a decentralized political system in Central Europe, where imperial authority depended less on centralized power than on negotiation among its leading elites. Central to this structure were the...
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US Marines Storm John Brown's 'Fort' at Harpers Ferry
US Maries storm John Brown's 'fort' at the climax of the Raid on Harpers Ferry (Oct 1859). This newspaper illustration is from an edition of Harper's Weekly, 29 Oct. 1859.
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Battle of Yellow Tavern, 11 May 1864
Battle of Yellow Tavern (11 May 1864) during the Overland Campaign of the American Civil War (1861-1865); fought six miles north of the Confederate capital of Richmond, VA, the battle resulted in the death of the Confederate cavalry general...
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J. E. B. Stuart's Cavalry Cutting Union Telegraph Wires
Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) had his cavalry cut the telegraph lines used by the Union army during one of his raids at the end of 1862. Illustration from Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements by Henry...
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J. E. B. Stuart as a Young Man
Photograph of J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) as a young man, probably around the time of his West Point graduation, circa 1854.
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J. E. B. Stuart
Confederate cavalry general J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864), published in The photographic history of the Civil War by Francis Trevelyan Miller and Robert Sampson Lanier, 1911.
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J. E. B. Stuart's Ride Around McClellan, June 1862
In his so-called 'Ride Around McClellan', Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) humiliates the Union army and gathers vital intelligence during the Peninsula Campaign (March-July 1862), chromolithograph by Henry Alexander Ogden...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Elizabethan poet, soldier, and courtier, oil on canvas by an unknown artist after an original, c. 1576.
National Portrait Gallery, London.
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The Fatal Wounding of Sir Philip Sidney
The fatal wounding of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) at the Battle of Zutphen (22 September 1586);oil on canvas by Benjamin West, 1806.
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.
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Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich
Portrait of an Elizabethan lady, thought to be Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (1563-1607); sister to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and muse of the poet Sir Philip Sidney, who used her as inspiration for his sonnet sequence Astrophel and...
