Modern Great Game Watch

Image Sources

Modern Great Game Map – Edward Stanford Ltd., A map of the countries between Constantinople and Calcutta including Turkey in Asia, Persia, Afghanistan and Turkestan. 1912. Courtesy Wikipedia.

The image at the bottom of the Modern Great Game Map page – Ancient Roman mosaic showing Anaximander of Miletus. Trier, early third century AD. Courtesy Wikipedia.

All Updates – W. H. Payne, Letts’s bird’s eye view of the approaches to India. 1900. Courtesy Wikipedia.

Caribbean Theater – Jean-Adolphe Beaucé, General Bazaine attacks the fort of San Xavier during the siege of Puebla, 29 March 1863 (Le Général Bazaine attaque le fort de San-Xavier lors du siège de Puebla, 29 mars 1863). Courtesy Wikipedia.

Continental South Asian Theater – Mural depicting Akali Phula Singh atop an elephant with Sikh troops engaging an enemy. First half to middle of the 19th century. Courtesy Wikipedia.

East Asian Theater – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japan Wins a Great Victory in a Naval Battle against the Chinese Fleet near Phungtao (Chōsen Hōtō kaisen ni okeru Nisshin kaisen waga gun daishōri no zu). Tokyo, 1894. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

European Theater – Godfrey Douglas Giles, The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava, 25 October 1854. 1897. National Army Museum.

Indian Ocean Theater – William Frederick Mitchell, HMS Thrush. c. 1890. Courtesy Wikipedia.

MENA Theater – Artillery fort of the Constitutionalists in the 11-month battles in the courtyard of the Arg of Tabriz. 1909. Courtesy Wikipedia.

Oceanian Theater – United States Navy. Samoan loyalists and American servicemen in Apia, March 1899. Courtesy Wikipedia.

Sub-Saharan African Theater – Kegneketa Jemlieri Hailu of Gondar, the drawing depicting the deaths of Cristóvão da Gama and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi. 1900. Courtesy Wikipedia.

Multi-Theater Updates – The World: Colonial Possessions and Commercial Highways, 1910. Cambridge Modern History Atlas, 1912. University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.

Other Work – Hugo Charlemont, Stillleben mit Büchern und Globus. Between 1873 and 1939. Courtesy Wikipedia.