The battle site, Riverbend Park, has a history of human habitation dating back 5,000 years. The Second Seminole War was part ...

On July 3, 1863, the Union army under the command of Gen. George Meade defeated Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E ...

In modern times, other nations invaded Iran, primarily for their oil. Sadly, fighting for oil and other natural resources has ...

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Tel Aviv and Washington will lose this battle with Tehran, and that failure will have a catalytic impact on peoples across ...

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Travel & Outdoors At His Tours of the Alamo, “It’s Not Just a Battle” For more than 25 years, Ernesto Rodriguez has helped tell the story of the San Antonio landmark.

Thermopylae under German control in April 1941 after the Battle. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place ...

The West compared this battle to the Spartans' feat of arms at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Even despite heavy losses in each clash, the enemy still continues to advance. Experts say that the ...

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and ...

The mortal sacrifice made by Spartan king Leonidas and his 300 elite troops at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. was described in vivid and dramatic detail in the Histories of Herodotus.