The Ballad of Lenore
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The Ballad of Lenore is an 1839 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. Distinctly Romantic in style, it is based on the 1770 Gothic ballad Lenore by Gottfried August Bürger. A young woman wa
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Seven Years' War
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The Seven Years' War, 1756 to 1763, was a global war fought by numerous great powers, primarily in Europe, with significant subsidiary campaigns in North America and the Indian subcontinent. The prima
The Ballad of Lenore
…in style, it is based on the 1770 Gothic ballad Lenore by Gottfried August Bürger. A young woman waits for her fiancée to return from fighting in the Seven Years War only to find the man who comes to collect her on horseback is a skeleton. Vernet was best known for his scenes depicting battle scenes from recent…
Clockwise from top left: The Battle of Plassey (23 June 1757) The Battle of Carillon (6–8 July 1758) The Battle of Zorndorf (25 August 1758) The Battle of Kunersdorf (12 August 1759)
Prussian Leibgarde battalion at Kolín, 1757
British raid on French settlement of Miramichi (later called Burnt Church, New Brunswick), 1758
The Battle of Kolín in 1757 in Bohemia (the site is now in the Czech Republic)