The island once brought in millions of pounds of goods, and today is a duty-free haven for day-trippers looking to nab ...

No disease man can ever spread will be as deadly as war. In the 21st century, an age in which even the most destitute on the ...

In 1917, the United States purchased Denmark's Caribbean colonies, marking a shift in Denmark's diminished global influence. Once a major colonial power, Denmark had lost key territories over the 19th ...

Throughout the history of international relations between Germany and Azerbaijan, there have been unique and fascinating ...

The most famous of these conflicts were the Hundred Years’ War and the battles fought during the Napoleonic Era. However, the military contests ... Prussia, and Bavaria, who saw this as an ...

The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary celebrations of 1938. The painting depicts the moment that Captain Arthur Phillip ...

The world today has been formed by significant battles that changed the tides and won wars, defining global power scales ... leaving nothing useful for the advancing German forces. As a result, the ...

For them, reputation is based partly upon the military capacity of the French ... Take, for instance, the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when our prestige and potency were at their height.

Scope note The Napoleonic ... on 2 Dec. 1804. o War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807). End date was the Treaty of Tilsit, signed 7 & 9 July 1807. o War of the Fifth Coalition (10 April 1809 14 ...

In Ceylon after World War II, the spraying of once malarial areas ... And in an H-bomb world, large population is no longer everything in military terms. The altruism of those Westerners who ...