While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

Discover New Hampshire’s pivotal role in the Battle of Bunker Hill, from John Stark’s leadership to a daring gunpowder ...

Army Pvt. Charles William Smalley Jr., a Chesterton native, was 19 when he died in combat in 1944 but no one knew where his body went.

Newly uncovered remnants of an army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg offer new clues into the lives of America's first ...

Around 44,000 people were repatriated to France, among them colonial officials, soldiers and their families, the descendants of French colonizers and local women, as well as local collaborators.

In 2020, historian Raphaelle Branche wrote a book in which she interviewed relatives of French soldiers mobilised during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. The shame they felt kept them silent.

The massacre at Thiaroye took place on 1 December, 1944, when French colonial troops opened fire on West African soldiers who had just returned from Europe, where they had been fighting for France.

In response, colonial soldiers fired on them, killing an undetermined number. French authorities at the time tried to bury the evidence and claimed 35 people were killed. However, scholars ...

Ivory Coast officially gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960, but France has maintained a military presence for decades, with some 600 soldiers remaining in the country when ...

Al Jazeera. Senegal seeks answers 80 years after French colonial massacre of soldiers. Posted: December 2, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. Commemoration prompts renewed calls for an ...

Hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France during World War II were likely killed by the French army on Dec. 1, 1944, after demanding unpaid wages.