Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
What caused the conflict, known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn (or the Battle of the Greasy Grass), led by LTC George Custer and Crazy Horse?
Henry V rallied his troops before the famous battle at Agincourt, fought between England and France in 1415.
The SS City of Benares was torpedoed by a German U-boat on in 1940 despite the September cold and a stormy sea Bess Walder Cummings and her brother su...
NOTE: THIS VIDEO CLIP RECREATES SCENES FROM THE CIVIL-WAR BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
After they've been called into battle by the warlord Ordgar, Tofi and his friend Leofric receive frightening news. Now their country is being ...
The Bayeux Tapestry - several panels of embroidered art joined together to form one story-telling work - provides a pictorial record of the famous Bat...
To better understand what happened, leading up to (and during) the famous battle of 1066, one needs to examine where the soldiers fought.
Terrain, at (and near) the battlefield of Senlac Hill - located about six miles (10 km) northwest of Hastings - has changed throughout the centuries.
Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, once made a bargain with William, Duke of Normandy.
What would it have been like for Britain's foot soldiers to fight in the Battle of Hastings, during 1066? Before we can answer that que...
By the time the war in Europe ended, in May of 1945, German U-boats had sent approximately 3,500 merchant vessels to the bottom of the sea - 2,452 in ...
Especially during the early years of World War II, German U-boats crippled supply convoys traveling to and from the United Kingdom.
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