The year is 1720, and Swedish forces have landed on the Baltic coast. Their target is St. Petersburg, but Peter the Great has ...

The Swedish Empire rose rapidly in the 17th century through military dominance and regional power but its fall was just as dramatic. This video explores how costly wars, overextension, and the Great ...

Why was the greatest and most climactic battle of the Great Northern War, the Battle of Poltova, one of the most important in all European history? What drove Charles XII of Sweden to invade ...

The Great Northern War: The Battle for the Baltic (Part 1) Dominic and Tom discuss Peter the Great, the early stages of the tumultuous Great Northern War, and his scandalous marriage to a serving ...

World War I began on July 28, 1914, after Austria and Hungary declared war on Serbia. This came just a month after Archduke ...

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, who has led the Trump administration’s efforts to wind down the nearly 22-month war and release ...

For the 80th anniversary of James Magennis' astonishing bravery, Lord Ashcroft reflects on the very first Victoria Cross he ...

Authorities say a Russian missile hit a Ukrainian army training ground in an attack that killed three soldiers and wounded 18 ...

EL PAÍS takes a tour from Hendaye to Normandy with stops at the remains of the bunkers that formed part of this defensive ...

Military historian John Wilson will present a talk titled "Gallipoli 1915: A Campaign Doomed to Failure, or a Campaign Almost Won?" at ...

July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United States, Britain and China called on Japan to ...

Some people, who made a mark on the country’s history, have stayed in perhaps the most unlikely of Yorkshire villages. This ...