Whether it was to be with their husbands or take up arms themselves, a great many women in the Civil War enlisted along with the men.   More »

Even today, the mysterious flight Nazi official Rudolf Hess to Scotland on May 10, 1941, remains shrouded in secrecy.   More »

The U.S. Navy called the incident involving Howard W. Gilmore and the USS Growler ‘the most famous act of self-sacrifice known to the U.S. submarine service.’   More »

A vast Persian host stood aside Alexander the Great’s supply line. Anything short of complete victory for the Macedonians meant certain annihilation.   More »

The British had to fight the elements as much as the French to get ashore outside of Louisbourg in 1758, but somehow they completed their mission.   More »

The British capture and destruction of the buildings in Washington D.C. after the Battle of Bladensburg was a hard time for Americans in the War of 1812.   More »

With the flower of Scots chivalry dug in atop Flodden Hill, English Lord Howard proposed to outflank the enemy in broad daylight—with his entire army.   More »

After arriving unopposed in Philadelphia, Lord Cornwallis looked forward to a peaceful winter. But George Washington had other ideas.   More »

At Northallerton, the descendents of the Norman knights who fought at the Battle of Hastings opted to dismount and fight on foot. Find out why inside.   More »

By 1135, there were probably five thousand medieval knights in England, but they differed little from their great-grandfathers who fought with William the Conqueror at Hastings.   More »