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Battle of Shiloh
Presidio of San Francisco, 1822
Dehousing from the Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
Samantha Cristoforetti
Design for the Cenotaph
Selimiye Mosque, Nicosia by A.Savin
General James Birdseye McPherson by Barr & Young, restored by Adam Cuerden
John Campbell Dancy by Turner, restored by Adam Cuerden
Ksiaz
Supermarine Spitfire
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Louis Blanc
Map of Interwar Europe
B-24 aircraft participating in the bombing of Romania in World War II
Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah
David Ben-Gurion
Nelly Martyl
Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
Green-Meldrim House
Beulah Ream Allen
Della H. Raney
Sherman's March to the Sea
Pauline Kirby
French battleship Suffren
Simone Veil
Shapur I's victory relief at Naqsh-e Rostam
George Washington
Château fort de Lourdes
F-15EX Eagle
Samuel Smith, African-American Union soldier
Castle Bravo "Shrimp" device
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
James A. Garfield
The Giechburg
Shock waves around a Northrop T-38 Talon in flight
Cabinet card of Sojourner Truth
Benjamin Franklin Tilley
Kenje Ogata, one of five documented Nisei to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
Billy Bowlegs (Holatta Micco, "Alligator Chief")
A Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado
Dorie Miller
USS Johnston (DD-557)
Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket
William Harvey Carney
"Aerial View of Edinburgh" by Alfred Buckham, prominently featuring Edinburgh Castle
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Haane Manahi
Château de Saint-Ulrich
"The Burning of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri at Gibraltar"
"The Charge across the Burnside Bridge" (Battle of Antietam)
Florence Nightingale's Hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War
1924 map of the United States Naval Academy
F-4 Phantom II fighter aircraft
Diagram of the 2008 South Ossetia War
Precious Metal, a North American P-51
Troops from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines in Afghanistan
Marines from 4th Battalion, 14th Marines operate the 155mm M198 howitzer
USS Benfold fires its five-inch 54-caliber MK45 gun
Indonesian general Abdul Harris Nasution (1918-2000)
Swiss soldiers dispatching a message by carrier pigeon during World War I
Admiral David G. Farragut
Admiral John A. Dahlgren
"After the war a medal and maybe a job", political cartoon from 1914
Astronaut Alan Bean
Tranquility Base
Part of the Alexander Mosaic, focusing on Alexander the Great
Alexander Roslin's King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers
Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation
M3 tank in 1942
The Alhambra, a Moorish fortress and palace in Spain
Journée du Poilu. 25 et 26 décembre 1915
Les dernières cartouches
US Civil War general Ambrose Everett Burnside
Senior American military officials of World War II
[[F/A-18C Hornet[[ launching from the USS Kitty Hawk
Andersonville Prison
Andersonville survivor
Animated naval gun turret, based on a British 15 inch turret Mark 1
Charles I of England
Footage of US Apache helicopter shooting Iraqis
Apollo 13 load on deck of USS Iwo Jima
Arc de Triomphe, Paris
Map of the Armenian Genocide
Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child near Aleppo in during the Armenian Genocide
Roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia after the Atlanta Campaign
Aircraft carrier USS Franklin attacked during World War II
Harper's Ferry, 1862
Australian infantry wearing Small Box Respirators, 1917
Australian military encampment, 1918
Interior of the Neue Wache in Berlin
USAF B-1 Lancer
B-2 Spirit over the Pacific Ocean
Experimental tracked gear on a B-36 Peacemaker
AV-8B Harrier II from VMA-231 landing in 2003
The Battle of Churubusco
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
An attack on Beijing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion
Join, or Die
The Battle at La Hogue
Wounded coming ashore at Balaklava during the Crimean War
Facsimile of the Bixby letter
Blackness Castle
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1 Koruna note. The protectorate was created by the Nazi regime in 1939, and this note was created by taking a Czechloslovak note then stamping over it.
U.S. pilots in action during World War I
Map of 1775 military installations in Boston
Confederate general Braxton Bragg
USS Niagara raised for the centennial of the Battle of Lake Erie
"Britain Needs You at Once" - World War I recruitment poster
British Army infantryman (front) at Modern equipment of the British Army
British Army infantryman (back) at Modern equipment of the British Army
Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of United States Representative Marriott H. Brosius
Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry
Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and biographer John Hay
Thirteen C-17 Globemaster III aircraft fly over the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia
Becket's Crown, Canterbury Cathedral
James Gillray's caricature of William Pitt and Napoleon carving up the world
Cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava
Canadian victory bond poster in French
Canadian victory bond poster in English
Quaker Guns at Manassas Junction
US Civil War general Charles Griffin
The Custer Fight (1903), by Charles Marion Russell
General Charles Pomeroy Stone with his daughter Hettie
Chateau Wood, Ypres, 1917
Soldiers of the Cheshire Regiment in a trench during the Battle of the Somme
Chinese soldier, age 10, following the capture of Myitkyina airfield, Burma
Confederate dead behind the stone wall of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg
Liberation of Paris, 1944
$50 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Slaves in a cotton field
Alternate $50 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Justice, Agriculture and Industry, and George Washington
$100 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Allegory of Justice, Minerva, and Hudson River Railroad vignette
$100 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Ceres or Minerva and railroad vignette
$500 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Ceres, cattle, and train vignette
$1,000 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Calhoun and Jackson
Aerial photograph of Soviet MRMB site in Cuba
Special Purpose Insertion/Extraction training
Siege of Sevastopol, 1855
U.S. Twelfth Army position map, 6 June 1944
Admiral David Dixon Porter
General Daniel McCallum
The Battle of Scheveningen
A Chinese soldier, killed by Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Korea
Operation Desert Storm
Yeomen Warder
Defsevaart in Rotterdam, one of the many parts of Rotterdam destroyed in World War II
Castle Films newsreel showing the Doolittle Raid of Tokyo in World War II
Doris Miller
General Abner Doubleday
Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during the initial landings at Leyte
Mark Satin counseling draft dodgers
U.S. Marine Corps Drill instructor
Duck and Cover, a US civil defense film
African-American soldiers of the Union Army, American Civil War, 1864
Edward Teller
Edward Savage's painting The Washington Family
John Philip Sousa
Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland
Photograph of Albert Einstein by Ferdinand Schmutzer
Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers on D-Day
Elizabeth L. Gardner, member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots
"England expects that every man will do his duty", signal sent by HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
Crash landing on the USS Enterprise while en route to attack Makin Island
Ernest Hemingway in Red Cross uniform during World War I
Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters during the Euromaidan riots, 2014 (pt. 1)
Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters (pt. 2)
A Chechen man prays during the Battle for Grozny
F-111 performing a dump-and-burn fuel dump
F-117 in flight
F-15D releasing flares
F-16 jet in flight over Iraq
A F-16 jet in flight for the Solo Display Team
FA-18 automated aerial refueling
German surrender in Berlin, 1945
Filipino casualties on the first day of Philippine-American War
1918 Navy Enlistment Poster
First JATO-assisted flight
Confederate position map of the First Battle of Manassas, 1861
Woodcut of the Russo-Japanese War by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Fort Baker at San Francisco Bay
"The [Franco-Prussian] War: Defence of Paris-Students Going to Man the Fortifications"
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts by John Singer Sargeant
Deutsche Mark note issued by the allies after World War II in the newly-divided West Germany
Robert Fulton's submarine design
General George A. Custer
A Weimar Republic Rentenmark repurposed by the Soviets for use in the newly-divided East Germany
Astronaut Elliot See during water egress training for the Gemini 5 program
Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, war chief of the Blood Indians
George Peter Alexander Healy's painting of John C. Calhoun
Georges Ernest Boulanger
German instrument of surrender, World War II
Leonardo Loredan, a Doge of Venice
A knight in Gothic plate armour
Governor Davey's (sic) Proclamation to the Aborigines
Grace Hopper, United States Navy rear admiral
A sixteenth century Spanish grant of arms
Return of the Great White Fleet
Schematic representation of a gun-type nuclear weapon
Gunnar Sønsteby, member of the Norwegian resistance during World War II
German airplane brought down in the Forest of Argonne by American machine gunners, France
Hans Holbein the Younger's painting of Charles de Solier
Harriet Tubman
Harry R. Hopps' World War I American recruitment poster
Bill Hosokawa's home at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center
Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies
Re-enactment of the Rotterdam Blitz
Antonie Frederik Jan Floris Jacob van Omphal, Dutch Lieutenant-General
Hitler and Mussolini, June 1940
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
HMAS Australia
HMCS St. John's (FFH 340) in Gdynia harbor, Poland
HMS Hood
Hollow Horn Bear
Horatio Nelson
Coldstream Guards, just after the Crimean War
Ida Tarbell
Idi Amin, ruler of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Caricature by Edmund S. Valtman
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire
A. C. Michael's illustration of the Christmas Truce for The Illustrated London News
Indian Victoria Cross recipient Darwan Singh Negi carried into the Royal Pavillion
British Gunners in Action at the Front
Japanese instrument of surrender, World War II
LCVP disembarking troops at Omaha Beach on D-Day
Iowa class battleship main battery turret
World War I Irish recruitment poster
World War I British recruitment poster, showing a Zeppelin
USAF bombing in Italy during Operation Strangle
Ivan Goremykin, Prime Minister of Russia during World War I
The Ivy Mike nuclear weapon test
Members of the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
A Japanese archer with targets
Suicude of two Imperial Japanese Marines
American War Savings Stamps poster during World War I, 1918
Johannes van den Bosch, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1830–1833
Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe
John Lorimer Worden
Tarred-and-feathered farmer
General John F. Reynolds
Joseph F. Ambrose
The German SMS Kaiserin Augusta in New York, 1895
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Sketch by Alfred Waud
King Charles II of England
Trains under attack during the Korean War
Battle of Fort Sanders, 1864
Battle of Franklin, 1864
Your King & Country Need You recruitment poster, 1914
Leeds Castle in Kent, England
Photograph of Confederate General Robert E. Lee by Levin C. Handy
Design for the Lexington-class battlecruiser, 1919
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Military execution of the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Lowering the flag on Zuikaku, 1944
Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot
A simplified schematic diagram of an M1 Abrams tank
M-209 cypher machine
An M777 Light Towed Howitzer in service with the 10th Mountain Division in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Charkh District, Logar Province, Afghanistan.
Ottoman machine gun corps at the Tel el Sheria Gaza line, 1917
Battle of Guam
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Tinian
François Certain de Canrobert
Marine private at Da Nang, Vietnam
Martinus Rørbye's View from the Artist's Window
United States President Franklin Pierce, Victorian photograph (probably daguerreotype)
Original design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Transvaal War: General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed
United States Navy Admiral Michael Mullen
Military College of Chapultepec
Millicent Fawcett
Charles Minard's chart of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign
Moshe Ya'alon
Hidatsa warrior
Muammar Gaddafi
The atomic bombing of Nagasaki
Caricature of Napoleon's exile to Elba
Sunrise, Inverness Copse by Paul Nash
Human research subject in a wind tunnel, 1946
National Fund for the Welsh Troops
Binoculars on the signal bridge of the USS Harry S. Truman
Memorial tower at the WWII Netherlands American Cemetery
USS Macon
World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden from the Japanese invasion of what is now Indonesia: 1 cent
World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 5 cents
World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 10 cent
World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: half Gulden
World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 1 Gulden
World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 5 Gulden
World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 10 Gulden
Nicolaas Pieneman's painting The Submission of Prince Dipo Negoro to General De Kock
Niels Bohr
Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the Normandy invasion beaches
"The Situation Room", where Obama, Biden, Clinton, and others were awaiting updates on Osama bin Laden during the mission to kill him
Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: Half Shilling
Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: One Shilling
Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: Ten Shillings
Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: One Pound
Japanese weapons and other military paraphernalia, ca.1892-95. Hand-colored glass slide
William Pitt the Younger, who led Britain during the Napoleonic Wars
Test Baker, Operation Crossroads at Bikini atoll, 1946
Osaka Castle
Ottoman surrender of Jerusalem to the British, December 9, 1917
Our New 'First Lord' at Sea
A SAI KZ IV, registration OY-DIZ, the only SAI KZ IV built and used before the end of World War II.
P-38 Lightning
United States President (and former Brigadier-General) Benjamin Harrison
Registration card from the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
Paul von Hindenburg
LGM-118A Peacekeeper missile system test
"Andes near Alparmarca, Peru: Sketched from an Elevation of 16,000 Feet" by Alfred Agate, United States Exploring Expedition
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1 centavo (1942). During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the Japanese issued their own printings
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 5 centavos (1942)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 10 centavos (1942)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 50 centavos (1942)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1 peso (1942)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 5 pesos (1942)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 10 pesos (1942)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1 peso (1943)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 5 pesos (1943)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 10 pesos (1943)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 100 pesos (1944)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 500 pesos (1944)
Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1000 pesos (1945). Note the rapid scaling up in values over time
Allan Pinkerton, President Abraham Lincoln, and Major General John A. McClernand
Polish cavalry in Sochaczew, 1939
Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers
Posthumous painting of Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo
Henri Frenay, part of the French Resistance in World War II
Portrait of Herman William Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and Divisional General under Napoleon
President Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the USA
Michael McNamara of the 5th Dragoon Guards
The cover of Puck from April 6, 1901
The dogs of war
R. V. C. Bodley
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Video of the Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima
RAN Squirrel helicopter
Seneca nation chief Red Jacket
Recruitment poster for the Australian Red Cross, 1914-1918
The first aerial refueling
Poppies placed in the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial
Rescue training exercise by the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Air Force
Richmond, Virginia after the American Civil War
Robert McGee, scalped as a child by Sioux Chief Little Turtle
Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill the yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp.
Cover of The Fringes of the Fleet
Russian battleship Chesma (1886)
Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov
SMS Fürst Bismarck
SMS Gazelle
SMS Gefion
SMS Ägir
SMS Odin
SMS Baden
SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II
SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm
A World War II anti-Japanese propaganda poster
Gassed
Sultan Mehmed VI, last sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Christian Fleetwood, recipient of the Medal of Honor
US World War I recruitment poster
Depiction of sixteenth century cannon placements
Propaganda of the Spanish-American War
Charles I in Three Positions
Paul Fildes, British Navy microbiologist who worked at the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar and Porton Down
SMS Moltke (1910)
SMS Seeadler, a German Imperial Navy unprotected cruiser.
German war bond poster
View of the 2014 excavation of a Spanish Civil War mass grave at Estépar, with 26 republicans killed by the fascists.
Francis B. Spinola, Brigadier General for the Union in the American Civil War, and Congressman from New York
The [Franco-Prussian] War: Fall of Strasbourg - Departure of French Prisoners
Su-27 from Russian Knights aerobatic team on landing
A Sukhoi Su-30 of the Russian Air Force inflight over Russia in June 2010
Sultan Pasha Al-Atrash, leader of the Druze people
The Sumela Monastery, seized during the Russian occupation of Trabazon in World War I, and abandoned in the postwar population exchanges between Greece and Turkey.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI
A synagogue in New York City remained on D-Day
Allied tanks advance in Langres, France, during World War I
Schematic representation of a Teller-Ulam design nuclear weapon
The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865
Ottoman camel corps at Beersheba during the First Suez Offensive of World War I
The capture of Blagoveshchensk
Qianlong Emperor of China in ceremonial armour on horseback
USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 1898
Winch parts on the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm
Pickett's Charge
British plan of attack on Fort Ticonderoga, 1759
Toompea Castle, Estonia
Trinity Site explosion
Triple Portrait of Cardinal de Richlieu
The Lion Tower in Tripoli, an example of 15th-century Lebanese architecture, photographed shortly after 1900
Australian Army recruitment poster from World War I
Nuclear detonation from the "Tumbler Snapper" test series
Ottoman heliograph crew at Huj during World War I, 1917
Ottoman/Turkish trenches on the shores of the Dead Sea, 1917
Captain Edward M. Thomas of the Tuskeegee Airmen
Tuskegee airmen in Italy, 1945
F-22A Raptors
Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox
$1 Hawaii overprint note from World War II, meant to identify Hawaiian currency in the case of a successful Japanese invasion, so that it could be declared worthless.
$5 Hawaii overprint note
$10 Hawaii overprint note
$20 Hawaii overprint note
$1 banknote from the North Africa series, from World War II. The yellow markings are for letting them be declared worthless should large amounts be captured by Axis forces.
$5 banknote from the North Africa series.
$10 banknote from the North Africa series.
US$500 note from 1880 showing Union General Joseph K. Mansfield
Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing José Martí
Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Máximo Gómez
Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Antonio Maceo Grajales
Certified proof of Cuban fifty silver peso note, showing Calixto García
Certified proof of Cuban one-hundred silver peso note, showing Francisco Vicente Aguilera
U.S. Army soldiers on Bougainville
Burning of the United States Capitol
United States Declaration of Independence
USAF aircraft of the 335th Fighter Squadron
USS Annapolis in the Arctic
The USS Bunker Hill hit by kamikazes during the Battle of Okinawa
USS Essex in heavy seas, 1960
USS Iowa firing a full broadside
USS New Jersey, 1918
USS Oregon in dry dock, September 1898
USS Pennsylvania entering Lingayen Gulf
USS Shaw exploding at Pearl Harbor
USS Texas c. 1898
USS West Virginia
Soviet frigate "Bezzavetniy" intentionally collids with USS Yorktown
American M8 Greyhound armored car in Paris, August 1944
Schematic diagram of a V-2 rocket design
A boy killed and set on fire by a V-2 rocket attack in Belgium on November 27, 1944
Vice Admiral John Duncan Bulkeley of the United States Navy
Vaxholm Fortress in Stockholm, Sweden
The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velázquez
Vertical replenishment
An infantryman is lowered into a tunnel during Operation Oregon
Battle of the Bulge
Waldenburg, Germany, 1945
Diagram of a warship from the 1728 Cyclopaedia
Map of the Waterloo Campaign
We Can Do It!
Ratification of the Peace of Münster
"An Available Candidate: The One Qualification for a Whig President"
William III of the Netherlands, painted by Nicolaas Pieneman.
Only the Navy Can Stop This
William Birney, Union Army general during the American Civil War
William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State during the American Civil War
King William I of the Netherlands.
The Chickahominy- Sumner's Upper Bridge: 1862 watercolour by William McIlvaine.
Attack on the Malakoff
Charge of the Light Brigade
Visit of Queen Victoria to the newly-refurbished HMS Resolute.
The print version of "Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville"
The original sketch of "Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville"
SM U-21 sinking the Linda Blanche, a painting by Willy Stöwer, the Kaiser's favourite naval painter.
Women of Britain Say - "Go"
Henry VIII of England, from the workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger
Aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, January 1891
Wrecked German ammunition train, destroyed by shell fire, World War I
World War I female recruitment poster
Douglas MacArthur signs the formal surrender of Japanese forces on the USS Missouri
Woman aircraft worker, 1942
The X-10 Graphite Reactor which created the material for the first nuclear bombs.
Japanese battleship Yamato in her final configuration on April 7, 1945.
World War I poster urging Yiddish speakers to support the war effort
Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, 1862
The Crucified Soldier
The Royal Kurgan in Crimea, Ukraine.
Nogi Maresuke