🇳🇱 The streets of Enkhuizen, the Netherlands, c. 1900

British troops trudging through a muddy bomb-scarred landscape during the Battle of the Somme, 1916

20 September 1854: British, French, and Ottoman alliance defeats the Russian Empire in the first major battle of the Crimean War at the Battle of the Alma

🇳🇱 Celebrations in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on 20 September 1944, after the city’s liberation by Allied forces

20 September 1604: The Siege of Ostend ends after Dutch and English forces surrender the city, allowing Ambrosio Spinola's Spanish army to recapture the devastated city and end one of the bloodiest sieges in history that caused an estimated 100,000 casualties

🇷🇸 King Peter I of Serbia emerging from St. Michael's Cathedral on horseback following his coronation, September 1904

A view of the harbour at Menton along the riviera, c. 1900

US Marines battle North Korean snipers during the Second Battle of Seoul, September 1950

Soviet and German officials having a friendly conversation in the newly captured Polish city of Brest following the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland, 22 September 1939.

A Jewish man blowing the shofar for Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets), c. 1890s-1910s

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics.

Members of the Dutch Resistance with troops of the United States 101st Airborne Division in Veghel in front of the Lambertus church during Operation Market Garden, September 1944.

Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of Julius Caesar after the Battle of Alesia, September 52 BC. This was the last major engagement between Gauls and Romans, and is considered one of Caesar's greatest military achievements. (Painting by Lionel-Noël Royer, 1899.)

🇫🇷 An artist at work on the streets of Paris, c. 1930s-1940s.

Ottoman miniature from 1558 depicting Balkan Christian children taken as slaves to serve as janissaries.

A US soldier on Guadalcanal, WWII, 1942

A young samurai, Japan, 1912 (original autochrome colour photograph)

🇬🇧 The small village of Bonchurch, UK, c. 1880s-1900

Ruined statues at the ancient Egyptian temple complex of Karnak. Photo c. 1890s-1910, colourized

Renault FT tanks being operated by the US Army in France, WWI, 26 September 1918