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British army marching in formation up Breed's Hill in the Battle of Bunker Hill, American Revolution, 1775
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Howard Pyle illustration

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British army gathering to capture Quebec, 1759

General Wolfe assembling the British army on the Plains of Abraham to take Quebec, 1759.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a Frederic Remington illustration

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Death of Delaunay, governor of the Bastille, at the hands of a mob during the French Revolution, 1789.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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