We tell the story of this war through more than a dozen dramatic accounts from Spanish, French, British, German and Polish ...

The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) began mainly as a religious civil war in the German-speaking lands, but it ended up as the ...

In classical civilisations, there was a continuing, unresolved debate about whether history moved forward or just went around in circles: was it linear or was it cyclical? But that debate was largely ...

According to expert assessments commissioned by the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA), the authority which last fall, ...

It kept the U.S. out of the various revolutions in France throughout the 19th century, the Napoleonic Wars, the Italian Revolution, the Franco-Prussian ... an economic and military superpower ...

Originally part of Denmark, the island was seized by the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars in 1807 ... Heligoland’s role shifted from a military outpost to a leisure destination.

Patriarch Kirill is speeding up procedures to achieve the canonisation of the most victorious commander in Russian history by ...

A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied. Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented his “Victory Plan” to Parliament on October 16, 2024, ...

The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far right has hurt his ...

The government in an act of Euro diplomacy is renaming its new nuclear submarine HMS Agincourt as HMS Achilles. In 1415 an ...

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 and ended the Napoleonic wars. Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated ... 72,000 French troops fought an army of 68,000 British Dutch, Belgian, and German ...

The German politician ... his more modern military tactics, including an increase in decisive maneuvers and mobile warfare. He became the first emperor of France and led many successful conquests, in ...