The 101st day of Verdun, the world's greatest battle, today found the crown prince rushing into action fresh legions amid the roar of hundreds of great guns west of the Meuse.

Jacob Rangitsch was part of a U.S. Army battalion of 600-some soldiers and untrained recruits who broke through German lines and were surrounded for six days in the French forest, fighting with ...

Using an old map dating back to the 1600s, we uncovered a long-lost French and Native American trading site - a major historical location used before tensions rose between settlers and indigenous ...

Later that morning, as a French division tried to link up with the “Lost Battalion,” only to be pushed back by German counterattacks, Morse ran an aerial shuttle service in an attempt to ...

Cher Ami was severely injured — shot, blinded in one eye, and lost a leg — but she still managed to deliver her message, which was crucial in saving nearly 200 soldiers of the "Lost Battalion ...

The reason this story is so important is that in spite of great odds the Lost Battalion was saved. An old film was taken soon after their rescue, showing the Lost Battalion coming down the hill.

French volunteers: Fighting in the Slovak National Uprising by choice Many French partisans called Slovakia their second home, says Didier Rogasik of the French Embassy in Bratislava.

The nightmare ended 10 months later after the heroic French defense stopped the final German push. But the respective armies ended up in the same position as when the battle started.

World War I's Battle of Verdun began with a German artillery attack on French positions on this day in history, Feb. 21, 1916. It's considered the longest battle in modern warfare.