He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...

Dowling Watford, left, and Glenn Bakels, right, stand in Riverbend Park, once the spot where the U.S. Army battled Seminoles ...

After falling in love with Paris in her 20s, American Mary Jane Wilkie finally relocated the French capital at the age of 79.

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

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News Travel Mackinac Island, Michigan, is a 19th-century escape from the contemporary world May 25, 2025 Updated Sun., May 25, 2025 at 6:34 p.m. 1 of 5 ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity.

In 1892, Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote a two-act classical ballet based on French novelist and playwright Alexander Dumas’ 1844 short story, The Nutcracker.

In the fall of 1894, the French counter-espionage service uncovered a document written by a French officer, which offered to sell military secrets to Germany. Suspicion immediately fell on Alfred ...

For the French army, those uniforms (there was also a third, more-functional style of uniform for battle) consisted of an open, single-breasted blue and white coat, a white waistcoat, white ...

The mid-19th century was a tumultuous time in Mexico. The country had just been invaded by the United States (1846-48), which took half of its territory, and the French later imposed a Hapsburg ...