The ongoing crisis in New Caledonia threatens to unravel more than three decades of French diplomatic engagement, as well as ...

Leesburg residents voted 400-22 to ratify Virginia’s Ordinance of Secession. A mere five miles northwest, however, the town ...

Mayotte is France's poorest region and is nearly 5,000 miles from Paris in the Indian Ocean - one witness said the damage wreaked by the cyclone looked like "the aftermath of a nuclear war".

In the years following independence, the newly-formed United States of America look westward for their expansion, hoping to conquer territory and sell off land to eager European settlers. Its ...

THE COLD JOURNEY—Grace Zaring Stone—Morrow ($2.50). In the literary as well as the geographical sense there are still wide open spaces in the U. S. Such trail-blazing authors as James ...

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Radium City A tiny, ugly collection of frame bunkhouses and mills squats forlornly on the shore of remote Great Bear Lake, in Canada's Northwest Territories. It is 1,400 ...

Then, following defeat in the French and Indian War (1754–1763), France ceded the territory to Great Britain in the 1763 Treaty of Paris. They created the Province of Quebec.

Contrary to it, Nepal has been claiming that three territories have been illegitimately occupied by India after 1962 Indo-China war which had been a bone of contention as it is far from reality ...

Marietta Chapter’s Revolutionary War Patriots of the Northwest Territory Memorial Service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 23, at Mound Cemetery, Fifth and Scammel streets, Marietta ...