French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops for his invasion of Russia. Wellington saw an opportunity to strike. First he secured the strategic ...

The film chronicles the life of Daniel Webster, an influential American statesman, orator, and lawyer born in 1782. Initially a sickly child, he pursued education fervently, eventually attending ...

But the June 1812 vote to go to war only narrowly passed the House and the Senate, and critics condemned "Mr. Madison's War" as a foolhardy adventure, motivated less by crimes at sea than by a ...

Sometimes the best thing a person or nation can do for a friend is get tough — and Canada has long been unserious about ...

Vietvet and 'Apollo 13' Oscar nominee William Broyles, Jr. opens up about the war's impact in an important new documentary ...

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A HIT on Broadway, Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812 is fresh and invigorating. Inspired by 70 pages of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel, War and Peace, Malloy’s bold adaptation (music, ...

“During COVID, parents saw what their kids were learning, and there was general disappointment with the level of learning ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.