We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...

George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...

A historian who identifies the remains of Canada’s war dead is currently working on the case of a Cork man who fought and died for the country in World War I.Alexandra McKinnon, a researcher for the ...

A teacher at Drakensburg Secondary School in South Africa is under investigation for allegedly cutting off a Hindu student's religious thread. The South African Hindu Maha Sabha has condemned the ...

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...