Sriniketh Ponnada

Washington Crossing the Delaware — the boat mid-river among the ice floes, before dawn, outcome undecided.
Mid-river, ice on both sides. — Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851
Bonaparte as a student at Brienne, writing at his desk at night, the shadow of the future emperor cast on the wall behind him.
The shadow is already on the wall. — Bonaparte at Brienne, 1784