Images Dated 29th July 2005 (page 39)

Elizabeth Sawyer, executed as a witch in England in 1621, 1794

Associates of the Witches of Belvoir. Anne Baker, Joanne Willimott and Ellen Greene, Leicestershire women with their pets and familiars

Ivan IV, Tsar of Russia
Ivan IV, the Terrible, Tsar of Russia. Known as The Terrible, Ivan (1530-1584) assumed power as the first Emperor of Russia in 1547

A Plantagenet king of England out hunting. The king depicted is possibly King John (1167-1216). Chromolithograph after a medieval manuscript

Headpiece from Thomas Mores Utopia, 1518. First published in 1516, Utopia was a work depicting an ideal state where reason ruled

The Fairy Queens Messenger, c1870. Artist: Richard Doyle
The Fairy Queens Messenger, c1870. Illustration for a poem by William Allingham, showing a fairy sitting on the back of a stag beetle

Charlemagne, king of the Franks, c1920. Charlemagne (Charles the Great) (747-814) was crowned Christian Emperor of the West in St Peters Cathedral, Rome on Christmas Day 800

Hawaiian men surfing using wooden boards, c1895

Expedition to confront African corsairs, 1390. A joint French and English expedition setting out, at request of the Genoese

The fall of Richmond, Virginia, American Civil War, 2 April 1865. Artist: Currier and Ives
The fall of Richmond, Virginia, American Civil War, 2 April 1865. Confederates abandoning their capital city having first set fire to it. From a Currier and Ives print

William Pitt the Younger, English statesman, 1793. Pitt (1759-1806) addressing the House of Commons, 1793. Engraving after a painting by Anton Hickel

Meeting of Generals Grant (left) and Lee, American Civil War, 1865. Artist: Currier and Ives
Meeting of Generals Grant (left) and Lee, American Civil War, 1865. Grant and Lee meeting on Palm Sunday 1865 to work out terms for the surrender of Lees Army of Northern Virginia

Napoleon and his staff watching the burning of Moscow, 1812 (late 19th century)

Constantinople, mid 16th century. Artist: Giovanni Andrea Vavassori
Constantinople, mid 16th century. Caravels and galleys flying Turkish (crescent) and Hapsburg (double-headed eagle) flags

Beginning of the Russian conquest of Siberia, 1580 (c1900). Cossacks under Yermak Timofeyevich attacking the army of Khan Kuchum on the River Irtysh

Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, 1815. The centre of the British army in action at Waterloo on 18 June 1815, withstanding a charge by the French cavalry. After W Heath

British shipping off St Helena, 1817. St Helena, the island to which Napoleon was banished after his surrender following defeat at Waterloo in 1815

Bodyguard of Persian Kings, 6th-5th century BC. Frieze from the audience hall of the citadel of Darius I (548-486 BC) at Susa, excavated by French archaeologist Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy in 1885

Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey, English soldier and colonial administrator in India
Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774), English soldier and colonial administrator in India

Napoleons Grande Armee catching sight of Moscow, 1812 (late 19th century). Of the 600, 000 soldiers of the army that set out on Napoleons Russian campaign, only about 100, 000 returned

Storming of the Bastille by Parisians led by the Grenadier Guards, 14 July 1789 (1804). On the morning of 14 July 1789, a crowd advanced on the Bastille, the state prison in Paris

Russians routing Bulgarians in a cavalry skirmish. Chromolithograph from a 10th century Sclavonian manuscript in the Vatican Library

Napoleon retreating from Moscow, 1812. Napoleon riding at speed on a horse drawn sleigh, escorted by a squadron of cavalry. Of the 600, 000 soldiers of his Grande Armee, only about 100, 000 returned

Selim I, Emperor of Turkey from 1512. Selims (1465-1520) army attacking Persians under Ismail I (1487-1524), founder of the Safavid dynasty, at Khoi, Iran in 1514

Battle of Hastings, 1066 (1070s). Harold IIs (c1022-1066) Anglo-Saxon troops (left) led by an armoured standard bearer and a warrior with an axe, confront Norman cavalryman armed with lances

Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen, German physicist, 1901. The discover of X-rays, Roentgen was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1901. Photograph courtesy of the Nobel Foundation

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian philosopher and poet, c1930-1941

Tudor ship of the type used by privateers and explorers, 15th-16th century

Title page of Schildtbergers Travels c1554. Hans or Johann Schildtberger (1380-c1440), a Bavarian nobleman, was captured in 1396 by Turks under Sultan Bazajet and sold into slavery in Asia

Capture of Edward Paget, British general, 1812
Edward Paget, British general, 1812. Second in command to Wellington in the Peninsular War in 1811, Paget (1775-1849) was captured by the enemy while retreating from Burgos in 1812

British soldiers leaving for the Crimean War (Russo-Turkish War) 1853-1856, (c1860). Grenadier Guards departing from Trafalgar Square, London, 22 February 1854, en route for the Crimea

Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier. Montgomery (1737-1775) fought in the British army in the Seven Years War. In 1772 he sold his commission and moved to America

Croesus, last king of Lydia from c560 BC. Croesus was defeated and imprisoned by Cyrus the Great of Persia in 546 BC. Legend has it that Croesus was condemned to be burned alive

Darius I (548-486 BC) Achaemenid king of Persia from 521, with attendants, 1881. Chromolithograph after a frieze in the citadel at Susa

Mounted Muscovite warriors, 1556. Cavalry equipped with bows and arrow, swords and quilted armour

Andre Massena, French soldier. Regarded as one of Napoleons greatest generals, Massena (1758-1817) first distinguished himself in the revolutionary wars

Jean Victor Moreau, French Revolutionary soldier. Artist: Delpech
Jean Victor Moreau, French Revolutionary soldier. Moreau (1761-1813) supported Napoleons coup d etat in 1799 and was subsequently given command of the Army of the Rhine

Napoleon Bonaparte as a young man, c 1790s, (c1830). Artist: Delpech
Napoleon Bonaparte as a young man, c 1790s, (c1830). Napoleon (1721-1818) enjoyed a meteoric rise through the ranks of the French Revolutionary army

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1800. Napoleon (1721-1818) enjoyed a meteoric rise through the ranks of the French Revolutionary army

English troops waiting to go into action at the Battle of Crecy, August 1346 (c1860). One of the defining battles of the Hundred Years War between England and France

Vlad Tepes (Vlad III, The Impaler), Ruler of Wallachia 1456-1462 and 1476-1477. Vlad was apparently the source of the legend of Dracula of Translyvania as he was a member of the Order of the Dragon

Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, French revolutionary. A member of the National Convention, Carnot (1753-1823) was the organiser of victory in Frances revolutionary wars

Mamluk (Mameluke) of the Ottoman Imperial Guard, c1820. When Napoleon invaded Egypt it was the Mamluks who fought him. They lost power in a massacre of 1811 instigated by Muhammad Ali Pasha

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. Francis I of Austria (1768-1835) became Holy Roman Emperor in 1792

Battlecruiser HMS Lion coming into action, Battle of Jutland 31 May - 1 June 1916. Jutland (also called Battle of the Skagerrak)

Harold II, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, 1066 (1070s). Harold (c1022-1066) and companions feasting. Harolds succession to the throne was disputed by William of Normandy

Edward The Confessor, Anglo-Saxon king of England, 1070s. Edward (c1003-1066), king from 1042, on his throne. After Edwards death

Military decorations. Left to right: Distinguished Service Order; Military Cross; Victoria Cross; Distinguished Conduct Medal (all British). Far right: French Croix de Guerre

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