The charge of the light, battle illustration

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Edward the Confessor seated at a banquet

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ever before,” says Margaret MacMillan. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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In 802 Charlemagne took delivery of an elephant, sent to him by Harun al-Rashid, the caliph in Baghdad. Here, a manuscript illumination from a late 12th century English Latin bestiary. (Image by Alamy)

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The storming of Beziers

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Empire builder Maharajah Ranjit Singh sits astride a horse as an attendant holds a parasol over him. Singh is historically credited with growing his ancestral warrior-clan, the Sukerchakia misl, into a grand imperial dynasty. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Napoleon watches on as the fighting at Waterloo unfolds in this 1843 painting

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A group of American soldiers captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Java, 1942 (Photo by Getty Images)

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Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

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London burns behind Tower Bridge on 7 September 1940

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London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)

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AFS firemen tackle a blitz fire amidst the rubble surrounding St Paul's Cathedral, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Rjukan Hydro Plant

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A portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler

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WW2 surrender signed, 2 September 1945

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Engraving depicting a scene from the battle of Crécy, during the Hundred Years' War. Dated 14th Century. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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The tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, built at Saqqara

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Battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485

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Print of Hannibal ferrying his elephants over the Rhone on rafts during the Second Punic War

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Genghis Khan

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Male and female militia fighters on the march at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, July 1936. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Marble relief depicting the Praetorian Guard, legionnaires and elite soldiers. In the Louvre, Paris, France. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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