Minnesota World War II veteran Les Schrenk recently got a chance to visit the former POW camp in Poland where he was held ...

Essling, Napoleon led his reinforced army back across the Danube. The resulting clash with Archduke Charles's Austrian army ...

Toussaint Louverture was born a slave. He defeated Napoleon and liberated a nation. This is his story.

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are different in a multitude of important ways. But they nonetheless offer some ...

With the new Polish president, nationalist Karol Nawrocki, European Trump supporters, led by Viktor Orbán, have gained an ...

During a routine cleaning of a riverbed in Poland, volunteers found a 6-pound cannonball believed to date back to the 17th century. The well-preserved relic was discovered at the bottom of the Krzna ...

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World War I was the first war in history in which guns were more deadly than germs. Battlefield deaths totaled 8,000,000; deaths from disease, 3,000,000.

Before World War II, there were two high-rises towering above the homogeneous tenement-house landscape of Warsaw. The first one was built between 1907 and 1910 by Swedish telecommunications company ...

Terre Haute, Lafayette, Vincennes, Versailles, French Lick, Notre Dame, LaPorte, La Crosse, La Fountaine, Napoleon, Orleans. Heck, there's even a Paris, Indiana. And a New Paris.