Europa Agonistes: Maps of States of Agitation

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I've collected a dozen maps here showing an animorphization of battlefield Europa over a period of about 40 years, from the Franco-Prussian War to the beginning of WWI.  They are biting and vicious, and no one seem to receive this bitter sword more savagely than the Russians.  The maps basically need no commentary, so I won't contribute any.  (Thanks to Mark Dylan Sieber's Les Curiosites de Cartes, whose Twitter feed started this interest.)

Thou art become (O worst imprisonment!)

The Dungeon of thy self; thy soul

(Which men enjoying sight oft without cause complain)

Imprisoned now indeed,

In real darkness of the body dwells,

Shut up from outward light

To incorporate with gloomy night

For inward light alas

Puts forth no visual beam

(--John Milton, lines 155–163, Samson Agoniste, published with Paradise Regain'd, 1671)