When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle ...
John Norris looks at a mainstay of the British Army in WWI; the 18-Pounder field gun ...
Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...
The Irish nationalist was caught in the fault lines between empire and nation, colonised and coloniser, public face and ...
Tribal warrior Telanga Kharia who defied British rule remembered on 219th birth anniversary in Jhark
The 1857 revolution is cited as India’s first war of independence, but the tribal warriors of Jharkhand (then Chhotanagpur) had already begun their struggle against British rule years before. Among ...
LONDON (AP) — Ever since Winston Churchill coined the phrase in the wake of World War II, politicians have extolled the ...
Putin appears to expect Trump to undermine European resolve on Ukraine. Likening Europe's leaders to Trump's lapdogs, he said ...
It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, ...
Archeologists in St. Augustine, Florida have discovered evidence of an 18th-century British fort, known as a redoubt. The ...
Built for an army cooperation role, the Lysander excelled as a flagship for spying missions. “Some talk of Alexander and some of Hercules/Of Hector and Lysander and such great names as these…” Those ...
July 1, 1916—the first day of the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest day in British military history. Over 57,000 soldiers were lost in mere hours, in a battle that was both a disaster and a ...
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