For decades, more than two dozen urns made of cardboard and copper have been sitting on storage shelves at a funeral home and ...

The family of a World War II veteran has learned more ... eventually received Pryor's medals and uniform. Pryor enlisted in the infantry branch of the military in Springfield, Illinois, in March ...

On July 4, 1906, 15 years after his death, a massive statue of Devens, in Union uniform and astride a horse, was unveiled ...

Of his two years there before the war nothing is known ... in the 16th Bavarian Infantry Reserve, whose uniform he wore for the next six years. Hitler fought and was wounded in Flanders, got ...

The professor of contemporary history has published a new biography of the dictator, a solid portrait that covers everything from his time in Africa and Hitler’s help at the beginning of the Spanish ...

The last battle of the First English Civil War took place in the early morning of 21st March ... Initially the Parliamentary infantry were pushed back, but when the cavalry of Sir William Brereton ...

A distinguished infantry officer who served in the Nigerian Army with ... who died in a helicopter crash during the Civil War, and today, Ikeja Cantonment is being renamed T.A. Lagbaja Cantonment.

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The wooden stakes were discovered in the moat of Sheffield's former castle The first surviving Civil War wooden stake defences to be found in the UK have been discovered by archaeologists in the ...

Armed forces in Sudan’s ongoing civil war are perpetrating systematic sexual violence against young children, with one-year-olds the youngest survivors of rape, according to a new report from ...

The first surviving Civil War wooden stake defences to be found in the UK have been discovered by archaeologists in the moat of Sheffield's former castle. The stakes were stuck into the ground to ...