the opening act of the Hundred Years’ War. At first, the English armies won significant battles under the command of Edward III’s son Edward the Black Prince. But the English strength faltered ...

The battle was a disaster for the French ... superior French army was a significant turning point in the Hundred Years’ War; the French had around 24,000 troops compared to England’s 6,000.

At the time of the Seven Years War, Fort Louisbourg was defended by a garrison of twenty-five hundred men, four hundred militia and ten ships.

After nearly three years of horrific ... Armored cars and tanks first rolled their way into battle in World War I. Chemical warfare, in the form of chlorine, mustard gas, and phosgene, poisoned ...

Friday July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Somme, estimated to be the bloodiest in World War I, lasted for five months. The first day of the battle was the ...

During the Texas Revolutionary period many Tejanos distinguished themselves in battle ... two years for his release. Again involved in military action during the Mexican-American War, Alsbury ...

According to the United Nations, at least 26 million Sudanese, more than half of the population, are acutely undernourished, ...

A few cannons served as a visceral reminder of what took place some 160 years before. Manassas commemorates not one, but two Civil War battles. In July of 1861 ... And there, too, lie the unmarked ...

On the walls of San Francisco's de Young Museum, there's a battle taking shape, and it's about 500 hundred years in the making ... is officially called "Art and War in the Renaissance: The ...

Relentless shelling and bombing laid waste to the town of Ypres in Belgium during the First World War. Seen here in an ... More than a hundred years later, smoke rises from the city of Bakhmut ...

Englishman, your king has not sent us any presents, nor entered into any treaty with us, therefore he and we are still at war." The French defeat had disturbed almost two hundred years of ...