Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

The postwar years brought big changes to Jefferson Parish. Learn all about them Feb. 1 as Charles Chamberlain III gives a ...

Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

This month, check out new historical fiction by Pam Jenoff and a horror novel with an adaptation already in the works.

Of all Napoleon’s marshals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte’s career was the most unusual. As a young soldier in the French ... Marshal Davout’s III Corps ran into a sizable Prussian force, which ...

The "beneficial outcome" (or at least one of them) of the "harmful" “Al-Aqsa Flood," might be that it rid us of the idea that force is the solution to the Israel problem. Neither our many wars nor our ...

Whenever Britain faced conflict - from early invasions by the Celts and Romans to WWII when skies were criss-crossed with ...

So, the average height of the soldiers in this corps was also 6 feet ... This topic of height also plagued Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1808–1873), or Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.

On Jan. 27, 1945, ten thousand Allied POWs stepped off from Stalag Luft III in Żagań as the Nazi regime began forcibly evacuating its ...

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Kevin D. Admiral, commanding general of III Armored Corps, presented Army Commendation Medals to three ...