From the earliest settlers and the Revolutionary War, American soldiers have been a transformative force shaping history.

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen. As it advanced, the Russian army retreated, and by September Napoleon's army had marched 470 miles into the depths of Russia ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen, composed of troops from France as well as Poland, Germany, Italy and several other allied states. The campaign that followed ...

A fruitless grave search unearths a mystery James Wolfe, 63, moved to Westerly with his wife about 2½ years ago, capping off ...

A veteran of the War of 1812, Buchanan began his career as part of the Federalist ... Taylor was an officer in the U.S. Army, who distinguished himself by winning a series of battles. In spite of the ...

The history of the US presidency is littered with tales of extra-marital affairs and allegations of corruption. Jonathan ...

Instead, I’ve been poring over Theodore Draper’s A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. The 1996 volume looks back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and yet that distant history rhymes with ...

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Over the years, families desperate for answers, media frenzies, and fans who feverishly theory-craft have surrounded numerous ...

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Napoleonic legacy is being used in complex and contradictory ways concerning dictatorship and war.

It is instead referred to merely as a ‘special operation’, with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov stating with a straight face in the weeks after the invasion that Russia had not even attacked ...

The citizens of southern Louisiana looked to Major General Andrew Jackson, known by the knickname “Old Hickory.” Jackson ...