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Xerxes Mandando Azotar El Mar.
La Civilizacion (1881)
KingXerxesof Persia is shown here just after a storm destroyed the beginnings of a bridge he’d ordered to be built in order to send his army to conquor Greece. The following extract is from a translat [...]
Keywords:
people, kings, xerxes, beards, men, soldiers, waves, water, rocks, colour, ancient persia, ancient greece, wars, illustrations for children
Places shown:
Hellespont; Dardanelles; Turkey
Added: 2018-11-05
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Storming of Antioch.
Ridpath’s History of the World (1897)
Drawn by Gustav Doré.The picture illustrates the siege of Antioch by Christian killers in the first Crusade in 1098. The book in front of me has a story about the towers being emptied by virtue of tre [...]
Keywords:
battles, castles, nighttime, people, men, ladders, warriors, weapons, greyscale
Places shown:
Antioch; Turkey
Added: 2017-10-06
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