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"Everyone wants to change the world, but no-one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy (Portrait by Repin, 1887)
Napoleon reportedly said satirist Gillray "did more than the armies of Europe to bring me down" (Little Boney, 1802)
Konrad Keyser's 1405 war manual Bellifortis shows Alexander the Great holding the first ever depiction of a rocket
The Death of Sardanapalus - Eugène Delacroix, 1827 (On display @MuseeLouvre)