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Napoleon comforts his mortally wounded friend and Marshal Jean Lannes following Battle of Aspern-Essling 1809

 

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The Battle of Nicopolis took place on 25 September 1396 and resulted in the rout of an allied crusader army of Hungarian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Wallachian, French, Burgundian, German, and assorted troops (assisted by the Venetian navy) at the hands of an Ottoman force, raising the siege of the Danubian fortress of Nicopolis and leading to the end of the Second Bulgarian Empire. It is often referred to as the Crusade of Nicopolis as it was one of the last large-scale Crusades of the Middle Ages, together with the Crusade of Varna in 1443–1444.

The Battle of Nicopolis miniature by Jean Colombe (c. 1475)

The Battle of Nicopolis, as depicted by Turkish miniaturist Nakkaş Osman in the Hünername, 1584–88

 

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The Crusade of Varna was an unsuccessful military campaign mounted by several European monarchs to check the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Central Europe, specifically the Balkans between 1443 and 1444. It was called by Pope Eugene IV on 1 January 1443 and led by King Władysław III of Poland, John Hunyadi, Voivode of Transylvania, and Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.
The Crusade of Varna culminated in a decisive Ottoman victory over the crusader alliance at the Battle of Varna on 10 November 1444, during which Władysław and the expedition's Papal legate Julian Cesarini were killed.

King Władysław III of Poland in the Battle of Varna, by Jan Matejko

 

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'Battle of the River Plate' by Edward Tufnell

 

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"HMS Resolution in a Gale" by Willem Van de Velde, the Younger. Circa 1678.

 

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Painting by J.C. Schmitz-Westerholt, depicting HMS Hood's loss during her engagement with the German battleship Bismarck on 24 May 1941. HMS Prince of Wales is in the foreground.

 

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HMS Queen Elizabeth, a painting by Oscar Parkes, 1918/19

 

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USS Olympia in the left foreground, leading the U.S. Asiatic Squadron in destroying the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay, May 1, 1898

 

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German ship sinking during the Battle of the Falklands 1914.

 

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"This was Hyuga" (1946) by Standish Backus, Jr.

 

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"The Christmas Truce 1914" by Andre Cabrero

 

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"British and German soldiers hold a Christmas truce during the Great War" by Angus McBride

 

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"The Christmas Truce 1914" by Soren Hawkes

 

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John Steven Dews
B.1949
THE CHALLENGE, ‘JAVA’ AND ‘CONSTITUTION’ OFF BRAZIL, 29TH DECEMBER 1812

 

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HMS Warspite in Narvik, by an unknown Russian artist

 

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Uncredited Defense Intelligence Agency artist - Soviet Military Power 1988

 

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Duel.
Fresco from the Cathedral of St. Mary of Tiruel (Aragon, Spain). The painting of the nave of the temple, of which this image is a part, dates from about 1270-1335 years. On the left is a Spanish knight, on the right is a Muslim warrior. Judging by the surviving documents for the payment of the work, the painting was done by the Moorish master Koglor Yusaf de Huzmel.

 

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“Streaming the para-vanes” by Charles Pears

 

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Imperial Austro-Hungary:
SMS Körös bombarding Belgrade in 1914

A postcard print of a painting by Harry Heusser of the Austro-Hungarian river monitor SMS Körös bombarding Belgrade in 1914

 

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"The Nelson Touch" Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson and HMS Victory leading his column through the Franco-Spanish line during the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. Painting by Tom Freeman.