Images Dated 2011 December

Battle of Cannae plan, 216 BC

Map of the Battle of Cannae, in which Hannibal defeated the Romans during the Second Punic War, 216 BC.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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First use of anesthesia in surgery, 1846

First public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1846.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustratioin

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General Lee and General Jackson before Chancellorsville, US Civil War

Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson conferring before the battle of Chancellorsville, 1863.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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