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The Battle of Trafalgar, which took place on October 21st, 1805, was part of the War of the Third Coalition within the Napoleonic Wars. This conflict involved the British fighting against both Spanish ...
As we celebrate our nation’s independence, many may be surprised to learn that a Revolutionary War battle took place in ...
In 1916 during the First World War, a terrifying new weapon was introduced to the battlefield: the tank. This ...
The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III for having “burnt our towns.” But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations.
On a sunny but crisp afternoon this spring, more visitors than you might think trekked on a weekday to Ball’s Bluff ...
What Was the Civil War? Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was ...
What’s happened in Sudan’s civil war after new Khartoum battles? The Sudanese army hopes big wins in the capital can signal a turning point in the civil war with the paramilitary RSF.
In dramatic scenes that appear to mark a turning point in nearly two years of civil war, Sudan’s military is driving fighters of its rival, the Rapid Support Forces, out of Khartoum.
This weekend, more than 2,000 people will participate in the reenactment of the Battle of Bentonville on the 160th anniversary of this Civil War battle. It will take place an hour south of Raleigh ...
The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious world of the hit TV show Severance?
Historic England has described the Battle of Roundway Down as "one of the most interesting and dramatic battles of the First Civil War". While Parliamentarians outnumbered Royalists at the battle ...
The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine has grown very happy with telling its story about the development of modern medicine from the perspective of Jonathan Letterman, ...