🇬🇧 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1844. He was one of the British commanders who ended the Anglo-Mysore wars by defeating Tipu Sultan in 1799 and among those who ended the Napoleonic Wars in a Coalition victory when the Seventh Coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. He also served twice as Prime Minister of the UK.

English and French prisoners of war sit near railroad tracks somewhere in Belgium in 1940

🇳🇴 A Norwegian fishing village, 1890s

🇺🇸 The delegates to the Second Continental Congress representing the 13 colonies authorize the Congress to approve the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Declaration proclaimed the signatory colonies were now "free and independent States," and no longer colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Young people mark Independence Day with Revolutionary War-era instruments and dress in Takoma Park, Maryland on July 4th, 1922

🇫🇷 Girls from Alsace in folk dress celebrating the return of Alsace to French control at the end of WWI. The region had been under German control since the Franco-Prussian war in 1871.

Elderly Jewish men in Jerusalem, c. 1890s

A dog with a canine gas mask and his handler, France, 1917, WWI

A Berber village in Algeria, c. 1890s-1920s

Crowd in St Petersburg the day before full mobilisation of Russian armed forces for WWI, July 1914

6 July 1944: Fire breaks out during a performance at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hertford, Connecticut, killing 167 people and leaving more than 700 injured. It was one of the worst fire disasters in US history.

🇳🇱 A couple enjoying a day at the seaside at Scheveningen, the Netherlands, 1910.

Cowhands and girls, Custer National Forest, Montana, 1939 (Colourised)

7 July 1520: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force in the Battle of Otumba in Mexico

🇺🇸 Zachary Taylor, c. 1843-1844. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War. He also serve as the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850.

Young Hitler Youth members being shown how to use a machine gun, 1945. Towards the end of the war, even boys still in the Hitler Youth were called up to fight.

Marie Lassus, an upper class Creole lady from New Orleans, 1860s

16 year old German soldier Walter Kleinfeldt poses in the city of Ulm before heading to the front lines, 1915