A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...

The doughboys hated British chow (not to mention drinking tea instead of coffee). They got along better with the Australians, ...

When the smoke cleared, eight American militiamen were dead, and the world would never be the same. That one shot lit the fuse for a war ... who fired first. Not a single British soldier.

HISTORIANS STILL DO NOT KNOW WHICH SIDE FIRED THE FIRST SHOT. THE ENSUING BATTLE WAS BRIEF, BUT BLOODY. EIGHT LEXINGTON MINUTEMEN WERE KILLED, TEN WERE WOUNDED. ONE BRITISH SOLDIER WAS ALSO KILLED.

Minutemen faced British soldiers on Lexington Common, Massachusetts, in the first battle in the War of Independence, April 19, 1775. Getty Images “Unfortunately, that story is a lot less sexy ...

It follows the announcement of the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War. The UK will ... had the honour of being the first British soldier to bring down ...

Russian forces used the “Easter truce” as a cover to improve front-line positions, according to Ukrainian soldiers.

Many volumes have been published telling of the events leading up to the Revolutionary War, as well as the fighting on the first day ... as were two British soldiers, with another mortally ...

Thirty-two cutters filled with British ... of World War I. The name quickly became a metaphor for hubris—as well as bravery and sacrifice. Today, along the beaches where thousands of soldiers ...

Days later, on March 4, the first soldier known to have influenza reported ill. The huge Army base was training men for combat in World War I ... Doctors in the British Grand Fleet, for example ...