When people tire of governmental tyranny, they sometimes revolt. Those revolutionary wars - like the French Revolution - profoundly change both a country and its culture. This collection contains stories about such events.
When the war in the North was fought to a stalemate, Sir Henry Clinton thought his troops could defeat the rebellion in the American South. Pe...
French soldiers, in a mass grave, had died of starvation and hypothermia as they returned from the Russian campaign.
Within weeks after his marriage to Peggy Shippen, a loyalist, Benedict Arnold contacted the British.
Major General Arnold, commander of American forces at West Point, was on the verge of giving the New York fort to the colonists' adversaries - the Bri...
As America struggled during the revolutionary war, it wasn't just battles which were lost to Britain. Trade with the mother country, so vital ...
Napoleon Bonaparte and his Grand Army were defeated by a coalition of forces led by Arthur Wellesley (the first Duke of Wellington) and Gebhard von Bl...
Napoleon, wanting to invade Britain, believes it is possible to tunnel under the English Channel to transport his troops.
Although the American Colonies have declared their independence from Britain, General Washington and his men are losing on the battlefields. Then Wash...