Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Showcase

The following is a listing of articles (and other types of content) within the scope of the project that have been noted for their outstanding quality. Project members are encouraged to peruse these at their leisure, as they serve as excellent examples of different writing and organizational styles that one may wish to emulate.

Currently, there are 1512 featured articles, 149 featured lists, 41 featured topics, 544 featured pictures, 69 featured sounds, 5 featured portals, 685 A-Class articles, 40 A-Class lists, and 5,563 good articles within the scope of the project.

Please note that the project does not necessarily claim authorship or credit for creating these. While many were written by members—sometimes with extensive input from the project as a whole—others were created by uninvolved editors, or predate the existence of the project itself, and are listed here merely because they fall within our scope.

Featured articles

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Featured lists

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Featured topics

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  Wait for Me, Daddy, a photograph of a son running after his father who is leaving to fight in World War II
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  Daddy, What Did You Do in the Great War?, a World War I British propaganda poster
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  Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau
• Don't Be a Sucker was a short film produced by the United States Department of War and released in 1943. It had anti-racist, anti-fascist and de-segregationist themes
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  A gouache painting by Jacques Joseph Tissot of the Jews being driven into exile, with the destruction of Solomon's Temple in the background
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  A de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito combat airplane
• Battleship Potemkin, a Russian silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• Napoléon, a 1927 French silent film directed by Abel Gance
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  HMS Dreadnought (1906)
• Duck and Cover, a film made during the Cold War which taught US school students what to do in case of a nuclear explosion
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  Antonio de Ulloa
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  A Lockheed T-33 training aircraft
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  A British BL 60-pounder gun
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  A poster of the United Nations alliance's fight for freedom during World War II
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  A T-7 Red Hawk training aircraft
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  A Continental I-1430 jet engine
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  The signing of the Paris Peace Accords
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  A Challenger 2 tank firing during a drill
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  James VI and I
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  Alexander Gardner
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  Germanicus
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  The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis
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  A painting of the Battle of Inab
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  Soviet soldiers raising their flag over the Reichstag following the Battle of Berlin
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  Damage in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas War
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  Chief Joseph
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  A painting of the Siege of Baghdad
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  A painting of the Battle of Forbach
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  Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra
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  Ernest Shackleton
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  A painting of the Council of Clermont
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  Theodore Roosevelt
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  Pedro II of Brazil
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  A painting of the Battle of Diamond Rock
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  Chester A. Arthur
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  Francis I of Austria
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  Lord Dunsany
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  That Two-Thousand Yard Stare
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  Philip IV of Spain
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  Thorsten Nordenfelt
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  Che Guevara
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  A painting of Horatius Cocles by Hendrick Goltzius
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  Captain John Tarleton
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  Marcus Aurelius
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  The French battleship Justice
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  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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  The USS Commodore Perry
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  Theodore von Kármán, left, with Air Force and NASA officials inspecting two of the models used in the high velocity, high altitude wind tunnels at Arnold Air Force Base, 1959
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  A Boeing KC-46 Pegasus refuels an Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, January 2019
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  George N. Barnard
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  Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina after the American Civil War
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  1974 Bundeswehr field ration contents
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  Hohenschwangau Castle
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  Pedro Américo's painting of a speech by Pedro II of Brazil
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  A portrait of George I Rákóczi by Jan Gillisz van Vliet
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  The Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road at Shingo La in India
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  John Henry Turpin
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  The American Cannikin nuclear warhead being lowered into its test site
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  Hermann Castle
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  Texas Raiders, a 1945 Boeing B-17 photographed in 2019
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  Jeremiah Gurney
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  A B-2 Spirit bomber in flight at the Dyess Air Force Base air show, 2018
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  Auxiliary Territorial Service women working on a Churchill tank at a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, 10 October 1942
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  Sigmaringen Castle
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  A panorama of the Soviet submarine B-515's interior
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  Elizabeth II running an ambulance service during World War II
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  Alfred Waud making sketches of the Battle of Gettysburg
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  A painting of the HMS Malabar observing the burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar
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  Edwin Forbes' illustration of the charge across Burnside's Bridge at the Battle of Antietam
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  Illustration of the burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar
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  Portrait of John Milton Brannan
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  Battle of Shiloh
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  Presidio of San Francisco, 1822
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  Dehousing from the Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
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  Samantha Cristoforetti
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  Design for the Cenotaph
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  Selimiye Mosque, Nicosia by A.Savin
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  General James Birdseye McPherson by Barr & Young, restored by Adam Cuerden
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  John Campbell Dancy by Turner, restored by Adam Cuerden
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  Ksiaz
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  Supermarine Spitfire
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  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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  Louis Blanc
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  Map of Interwar Europe
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  B-24 aircraft participating in the bombing of Romania in World War II
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  Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah
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  David Ben-Gurion
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  Nelly Martyl
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  Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
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  Green-Meldrim House
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  Beulah Ream Allen
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  Della H. Raney
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  Sherman's March to the Sea
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  Pauline Kirby
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  French battleship Suffren
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  Simone Veil
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  Shapur I's victory relief at Naqsh-e Rostam
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  George Washington
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  Château fort de Lourdes
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  F-15EX Eagle
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  Samuel Smith, African-American Union soldier
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  Castle Bravo "Shrimp" device
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  Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
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  James A. Garfield
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  The Giechburg
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  Shock waves around a Northrop T-38 Talon in flight
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  Cabinet card of Sojourner Truth
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  Benjamin Franklin Tilley
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  Kenje Ogata, one of five documented Nisei to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
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  Billy Bowlegs (Holatta Micco, "Alligator Chief")
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  A Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado
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  Dorie Miller
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  USS Johnston (DD-557)
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  Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket
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  William Harvey Carney
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  "Aerial View of Edinburgh" by Alfred Buckham, prominently featuring Edinburgh Castle
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  Brooklyn Navy Yard
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  Haane Manahi
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  Château de Saint-Ulrich
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  "The Burning of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri at Gibraltar"
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  "The Charge across the Burnside Bridge" (Battle of Antietam)
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  Florence Nightingale's Hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War
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  1924 map of the United States Naval Academy
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  F-4 Phantom II fighter aircraft
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  Diagram of the 2008 South Ossetia War
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  Precious Metal, a North American P-51
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  Troops from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines in Afghanistan
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  Marines from 4th Battalion, 14th Marines operate the 155mm M198 howitzer
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  USS Benfold fires its five-inch 54-caliber MK45 gun
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  Indonesian general Abdul Harris Nasution (1918-2000)
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  Swiss soldiers dispatching a message by carrier pigeon during World War I
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  Admiral David G. Farragut
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  Admiral John A. Dahlgren
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  "After the war a medal and maybe a job", political cartoon from 1914
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  Astronaut Alan Bean
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  Tranquility Base
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  Part of the Alexander Mosaic, focusing on Alexander the Great
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  Alexander Roslin's King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers
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  Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation
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  M3 tank in 1942
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  The Alhambra, a Moorish fortress and palace in Spain
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  Journée du Poilu. 25 et 26 décembre 1915
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  Les dernières cartouches
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  US Civil War general Ambrose Everett Burnside
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  Senior American military officials of World War II
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  [[F/A-18C Hornet[[ launching from the USS Kitty Hawk
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  Andersonville Prison
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  Andersonville survivor
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  Animated naval gun turret, based on a British 15 inch turret Mark 1
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  Charles I of England
• Footage of US Apache helicopter shooting Iraqis
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  Apollo 13 load on deck of USS Iwo Jima
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  Arc de Triomphe, Paris
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  Map of the Armenian Genocide
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  Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child near Aleppo in during the Armenian Genocide
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  Roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia after the Atlanta Campaign
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  Aircraft carrier USS Franklin attacked during World War II
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  Harper's Ferry, 1862
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  Australian infantry wearing Small Box Respirators, 1917
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  Australian military encampment, 1918
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  Interior of the Neue Wache in Berlin
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  USAF B-1 Lancer
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  B-2 Spirit over the Pacific Ocean
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  Experimental tracked gear on a B-36 Peacemaker
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  AV-8B Harrier II from VMA-231 landing in 2003
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  The Battle of Churubusco
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  Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
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  An attack on Beijing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion
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  Join, or Die
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  The Battle at La Hogue
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  Wounded coming ashore at Balaklava during the Crimean War
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  Facsimile of the Bixby letter
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  Blackness Castle
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  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
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  Map of 1775 military installations in Boston
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  Confederate general Braxton Bragg
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  USS Niagara raised for the centennial of the Battle of Lake Erie
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  "Britain Needs You at Once" - World War I recruitment poster
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  British Army infantryman (front) at Modern equipment of the British Army
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  British Army infantryman (back) at Modern equipment of the British Army
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  Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of United States Representative Marriott H. Brosius
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  Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry
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  Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and biographer John Hay
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  Thirteen C-17 Globemaster III aircraft fly over the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia
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  Becket's Crown, Canterbury Cathedral
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  James Gillray's caricature of William Pitt and Napoleon carving up the world
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  Cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava
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  Canadian victory bond poster in French
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  Canadian victory bond poster in English
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  Quaker Guns at Manassas Junction
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  US Civil War general Charles Griffin
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  The Custer Fight (1903), by Charles Marion Russell
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  General Charles Pomeroy Stone with his daughter Hettie
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  Chateau Wood, Ypres, 1917
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  Soldiers of the Cheshire Regiment in a trench during the Battle of the Somme
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  Chinese soldier, age 10, following the capture of Myitkyina airfield, Burma
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  Confederate dead behind the stone wall of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg
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  Liberation of Paris, 1944
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  $50 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Slaves in a cotton field
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  Alternate $50 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Justice, Agriculture and Industry, and George Washington
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  $100 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Allegory of Justice, Minerva, and Hudson River Railroad vignette
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  $100 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Ceres or Minerva and railroad vignette
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  $500 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Ceres, cattle, and train vignette
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  $1,000 Confederate States of America note from 1861, showing Calhoun and Jackson
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  Aerial photograph of Soviet MRMB site in Cuba
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  Special Purpose Insertion/Extraction training
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  Siege of Sevastopol, 1855
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  U.S. Twelfth Army position map, 6 June 1944
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  Admiral David Dixon Porter
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  General Daniel McCallum
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  The Battle of Scheveningen
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  A Chinese soldier, killed by Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Korea
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  Operation Desert Storm
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  Yeomen Warder
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  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
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  Doris Miller
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  General Abner Doubleday
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  Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during the initial landings at Leyte
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  Mark Satin counseling draft dodgers
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  U.S. Marine Corps Drill instructor
• Duck and Cover, a US civil defense film
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  African-American soldiers of the Union Army, American Civil War, 1864
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  Edward Teller
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  Edward Savage's painting The Washington Family
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  John Philip Sousa
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  Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland
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  Photograph of Albert Einstein by Ferdinand Schmutzer
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  Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers on D-Day
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  Elizabeth L. Gardner, member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots
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  "England expects that every man will do his duty", signal sent by HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
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  Crash landing on the USS Enterprise while en route to attack Makin Island
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  Ernest Hemingway in Red Cross uniform during World War I
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  Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
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  Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters during the Euromaidan riots, 2014 (pt. 1)
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  Burning of the Euromaidan headquarters (pt. 2)
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  A Chechen man prays during the Battle for Grozny
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  F-111 performing a dump-and-burn fuel dump
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  F-117 in flight
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  F-15D releasing flares
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  F-16 jet in flight over Iraq
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  A F-16 jet in flight for the Solo Display Team
• FA-18 automated aerial refueling
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  German surrender in Berlin, 1945
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  Filipino casualties on the first day of Philippine-American War
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  1918 Navy Enlistment Poster
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  First JATO-assisted flight
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  Confederate position map of the First Battle of Manassas, 1861
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  Woodcut of the Russo-Japanese War by Kobayashi Kiyochika
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  Fort Baker at San Francisco Bay
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  "The [Franco-Prussian] War: Defence of Paris-Students Going to Man the Fortifications"
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  Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts by John Singer Sargeant
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  Deutsche Mark note issued by the allies after World War II in the newly-divided West Germany
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  Robert Fulton's submarine design
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  General George A. Custer
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  A Weimar Republic Rentenmark repurposed by the Soviets for use in the newly-divided East Germany
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  Astronaut Elliot See during water egress training for the Gemini 5 program
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  Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, war chief of the Blood Indians
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  George Peter Alexander Healy's painting of John C. Calhoun
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  Georges Ernest Boulanger
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  German instrument of surrender, World War II
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  Leonardo Loredan, a Doge of Venice
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  A knight in Gothic plate armour
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  Governor Davey's (sic) Proclamation to the Aborigines
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  Grace Hopper, United States Navy rear admiral
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  A sixteenth century Spanish grant of arms
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  Return of the Great White Fleet
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  Schematic representation of a gun-type nuclear weapon
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  Gunnar Sønsteby, member of the Norwegian resistance during World War II
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  German airplane brought down in the Forest of Argonne by American machine gunners, France
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  Hans Holbein the Younger's painting of Charles de Solier
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  Harriet Tubman
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  Harry R. Hopps' World War I American recruitment poster
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  Bill Hosokawa's home at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center
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  Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies
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  Re-enactment of the Rotterdam Blitz
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  Antonie Frederik Jan Floris Jacob van Omphal, Dutch Lieutenant-General
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  Hitler and Mussolini, June 1940
• Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
  Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
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  HMAS Australia
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  HMCS St. John's (FFH 340) in Gdynia harbor, Poland
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  HMS Hood
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  Hollow Horn Bear
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  Horatio Nelson
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  Coldstream Guards, just after the Crimean War
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  Ida Tarbell
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  Idi Amin, ruler of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Caricature by Edmund S. Valtman
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  Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire
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  A. C. Michael's illustration of the Christmas Truce for The Illustrated London News
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  Indian Victoria Cross recipient Darwan Singh Negi carried into the Royal Pavillion
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  British Gunners in Action at the Front
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  Japanese instrument of surrender, World War II
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  LCVP disembarking troops at Omaha Beach on D-Day
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  Iowa class battleship main battery turret
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  World War I Irish recruitment poster
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  World War I British recruitment poster, showing a Zeppelin
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  USAF bombing in Italy during Operation Strangle
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  Ivan Goremykin, Prime Minister of Russia during World War I
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  The Ivy Mike nuclear weapon test
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  Members of the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
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  The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
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  A Japanese archer with targets
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  Suicude of two Imperial Japanese Marines
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  American War Savings Stamps poster during World War I, 1918
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  Johannes van den Bosch, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1830–1833
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  Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe
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  John Lorimer Worden
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  Tarred-and-feathered farmer
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  General John F. Reynolds
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  Joseph F. Ambrose
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  The German SMS Kaiserin Augusta in New York, 1895
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  Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Sketch by Alfred Waud
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  King Charles II of England
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  Trains under attack during the Korean War
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  Battle of Fort Sanders, 1864
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  Battle of Franklin, 1864
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  Your King & Country Need You recruitment poster, 1914
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  Leeds Castle in Kent, England
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  Photograph of Confederate General Robert E. Lee by Levin C. Handy
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  Design for the Lexington-class battlecruiser, 1919
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  Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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  Military execution of the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination
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  Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
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  Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
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  Lowering the flag on Zuikaku, 1944
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  Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot
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  A simplified schematic diagram of an M1 Abrams tank
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  M-209 cypher machine
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  An M777 Light Towed Howitzer in service with the 10th Mountain Division in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Charkh District, Logar Province, Afghanistan.
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  Ottoman machine gun corps at the Tel el Sheria Gaza line, 1917
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  Battle of Guam
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  Battle of Jutland
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  Battle of Tinian
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  François Certain de Canrobert
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  Marine private at Da Nang, Vietnam
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  Martinus Rørbye's View from the Artist's Window
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  United States President Franklin Pierce, Victorian photograph (probably daguerreotype)
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  Original design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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  The Transvaal War: General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed
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  United States Navy Admiral Michael Mullen
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  Military College of Chapultepec
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  Millicent Fawcett
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  Charles Minard's chart of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign
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  Moshe Ya'alon
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  Hidatsa warrior
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  Muammar Gaddafi
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  The atomic bombing of Nagasaki
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  Caricature of Napoleon's exile to Elba
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  Sunrise, Inverness Copse by Paul Nash
• Human research subject in a wind tunnel, 1946
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  National Fund for the Welsh Troops
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  Binoculars on the signal bridge of the USS Harry S. Truman
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  Memorial tower at the WWII Netherlands American Cemetery
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  USS Macon
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden from the Japanese invasion of what is now Indonesia: 1 cent
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 5 cents
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 10 cent
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: half Gulden
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 1 Gulden
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 5 Gulden
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  World War II Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden: 10 Gulden
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  Nicolaas Pieneman's painting The Submission of Prince Dipo Negoro to General De Kock
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  Niels Bohr
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  Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the Normandy invasion beaches
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  "The Situation Room", where Obama, Biden, Clinton, and others were awaiting updates on Osama bin Laden during the mission to kill him
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  Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: Half Shilling
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  Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: One Shilling
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  Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: Ten Shillings
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  Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound: One Pound
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  Japanese weapons and other military paraphernalia, ca.1892-95. Hand-colored glass slide
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  William Pitt the Younger, who led Britain during the Napoleonic Wars
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  Test Baker, Operation Crossroads at Bikini atoll, 1946
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  Osaka Castle
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  Ottoman surrender of Jerusalem to the British, December 9, 1917
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  Our New 'First Lord' at Sea
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  A SAI KZ IV, registration OY-DIZ, the only SAI KZ IV built and used before the end of World War II.
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  P-38 Lightning
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  United States President (and former Brigadier-General) Benjamin Harrison
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  Registration card from the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
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  Paul von Hindenburg
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  LGM-118A Peacekeeper missile system test
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  "Andes near Alparmarca, Peru: Sketched from an Elevation of 16,000 Feet" by Alfred Agate, United States Exploring Expedition
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1 centavo (1942). During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the Japanese issued their own printings
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 5 centavos (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 10 centavos (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 50 centavos (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1 peso (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 5 pesos (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 10 pesos (1942)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1 peso (1943)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 5 pesos (1943)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 10 pesos (1943)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 100 pesos (1944)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 500 pesos (1944)
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  Japanese Invasion currency from the Philippines: 1000 pesos (1945). Note the rapid scaling up in values over time
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  Allan Pinkerton, President Abraham Lincoln, and Major General John A. McClernand
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  Polish cavalry in Sochaczew, 1939
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  Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers
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  Posthumous painting of Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo
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  Henri Frenay, part of the French Resistance in World War II
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  Portrait of Herman William Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and Divisional General under Napoleon
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  President Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the USA
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  Michael McNamara of the 5th Dragoon Guards
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  The cover of Puck from April 6, 1901
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  The dogs of war
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  R. V. C. Bodley
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  Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
• Video of the Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima
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  RAN Squirrel helicopter
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  Seneca nation chief Red Jacket
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  Recruitment poster for the Australian Red Cross, 1914-1918
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  The first aerial refueling
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  Poppies placed in the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial
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  Rescue training exercise by the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Air Force
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  Richmond, Virginia after the American Civil War
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  Robert McGee, scalped as a child by Sioux Chief Little Turtle
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  Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill the yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp.
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  Cover of The Fringes of the Fleet
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  Russian battleship Chesma (1886)
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  Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov
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  SMS Fürst Bismarck
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  SMS Gazelle
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  SMS Gefion
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  SMS Ägir
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  SMS Odin
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  SMS Baden
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  SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II
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  SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm
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  A World War II anti-Japanese propaganda poster
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  Gassed
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  Sultan Mehmed VI, last sultan of the Ottoman Empire
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  Christian Fleetwood, recipient of the Medal of Honor
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  US World War I recruitment poster
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  Depiction of sixteenth century cannon placements
• Propaganda of the Spanish-American War
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  Charles I in Three Positions
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  Paul Fildes, British Navy microbiologist who worked at the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar and Porton Down
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  SMS Moltke (1910)
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  SMS Seeadler, a German Imperial Navy unprotected cruiser.
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  German war bond poster
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  View of the 2014 excavation of a Spanish Civil War mass grave at Estépar, with 26 republicans killed by the fascists.
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  Francis B. Spinola, Brigadier General for the Union in the American Civil War, and Congressman from New York
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  The [Franco-Prussian] War: Fall of Strasbourg - Departure of French Prisoners
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  Su-27 from Russian Knights aerobatic team on landing
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  A Sukhoi Su-30 of the Russian Air Force inflight over Russia in June 2010
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  Sultan Pasha Al-Atrash, leader of the Druze people
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  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.
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  Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI
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• Allied tanks advance in Langres, France, during World War I
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  Schematic representation of a Teller-Ulam design nuclear weapon
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  The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865
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  Ottoman camel corps at Beersheba during the First Suez Offensive of World War I
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  The capture of Blagoveshchensk
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  Qianlong Emperor of China in ceremonial armour on horseback
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  USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor
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  Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 1898
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  Pickett's Charge
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  British plan of attack on Fort Ticonderoga, 1759
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  Toompea Castle, Estonia
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  Triple Portrait of Cardinal de Richlieu
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  The Lion Tower in Tripoli, an example of 15th-century Lebanese architecture, photographed shortly after 1900
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  Australian Army recruitment poster from World War I
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  Nuclear detonation from the "Tumbler Snapper" test series
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  Ottoman heliograph crew at Huj during World War I, 1917
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  Ottoman/Turkish trenches on the shores of the Dead Sea, 1917
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  Captain Edward M. Thomas of the Tuskeegee Airmen
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  Tuskegee airmen in Italy, 1945
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  F-22A Raptors
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  Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox
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  $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.
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  $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.
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  $5 banknote from the North Africa series.
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  $10 banknote from the North Africa series.
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  US$500 note from 1880 showing Union General Joseph K. Mansfield
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  Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing José Martí
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  Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Máximo Gómez
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  Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
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  Certified proof of Cuban one silver peso note, showing Antonio Maceo Grajales
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  Certified proof of Cuban fifty silver peso note, showing Calixto García
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  Certified proof of Cuban one-hundred silver peso note, showing Francisco Vicente Aguilera
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  U.S. Army soldiers on Bougainville
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  Burning of the United States Capitol
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  United States Declaration of Independence
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  USAF aircraft of the 335th Fighter Squadron
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  USS Annapolis in the Arctic
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  The USS Bunker Hill hit by kamikazes during the Battle of Okinawa
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  USS Essex in heavy seas, 1960
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  USS Iowa firing a full broadside
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  USS New Jersey, 1918
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  USS Oregon in dry dock, September 1898
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  USS Pennsylvania entering Lingayen Gulf
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  USS Shaw exploding at Pearl Harbor
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  USS Texas c. 1898
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  USS West Virginia
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  Soviet frigate "Bezzavetniy" intentionally collids with USS Yorktown
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  American M8 Greyhound armored car in Paris, August 1944
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  Schematic diagram of a V-2 rocket design
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  A boy killed and set on fire by a V-2 rocket attack in Belgium on November 27, 1944
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  Vice Admiral John Duncan Bulkeley of the United States Navy
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  Vaxholm Fortress in Stockholm, Sweden
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  The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velázquez
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  Vertical replenishment
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  An infantryman is lowered into a tunnel during Operation Oregon
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  Battle of the Bulge
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  Waldenburg, Germany, 1945
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  Diagram of a warship from the 1728 Cyclopaedia
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  Map of the Waterloo Campaign
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  We Can Do It!
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  Ratification of the Peace of Münster
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  "An Available Candidate: The One Qualification for a Whig President"
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  William III of the Netherlands, painted by Nicolaas Pieneman.
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  Only the Navy Can Stop This
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  William Birney, Union Army general during the American Civil War
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  William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State during the American Civil War
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  King William I of the Netherlands.
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  The Chickahominy- Sumner's Upper Bridge: 1862 watercolour by William McIlvaine.
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  Attack on the Malakoff
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  Charge of the Light Brigade
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  Visit of Queen Victoria to the newly-refurbished HMS Resolute.
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  The print version of "Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville"
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  The original sketch of "Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville"
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  SM U-21 sinking the Linda Blanche, a painting by Willy Stöwer, the Kaiser's favourite naval painter.
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  Women of Britain Say - "Go"
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  Henry VIII of England, from the workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger
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  Aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, January 1891
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  Wrecked German ammunition train, destroyed by shell fire, World War I
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  World War I female recruitment poster
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  Douglas MacArthur signs the formal surrender of Japanese forces on the USS Missouri
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  Woman aircraft worker, 1942
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  The X-10 Graphite Reactor which created the material for the first nuclear bombs.
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  Japanese battleship Yamato in her final configuration on April 7, 1945.
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  World War I poster urging Yiddish speakers to support the war effort
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  Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, 1862
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  The Crucified Soldier
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  The Royal Kurgan in Crimea, Ukraine.
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  Nogi Maresuke

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