Image: Library of Congress This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, live ...

The Battle of Marathon saw wo entirely antithetical military and political traditions: cavalry, archery, and light-armed troops versus heavy infantry; coerc ...

The War of the Austrian Succession found the British Army run down and neglected, its proud military traditions grown sclerotic. Yet in May 1745, at Fonteno ...