In 1949, the Indonesian War of Independence reached its decisive climax as Dutch military control unraveled under guerrilla ...

Woods off the A249 hide the remains of a long‑demolished Kent house once linked to the American War of Independence. The Rose Hill estate, later renamed the Grove, drew the attention of local ...

Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on the afternoon of July 4, 1776. What happened next? A little-known sequence of events tells the story. It speaks volumes about the ...

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...

Before the breakout of the War of Independence, Alexandros Ypsilantis decided the first blow against the Ottomans should be outside Greece.

Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence and proclaims all men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson is tasked with writing a first draft of what will become the Declaration of ...

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...