By 1917 Cambrai had become one of the most important nodes of the German railway and command and control system. It was protected behind the defenses of the Hindenburg Line. The...

Jutland was the largest naval battle in World War I and the third historic action between battleships (steel-armored battleships) following the battles of the Yellow Sea (1904)...

It was a major battle in which the US Marine Corps and Navy landed and finally captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. As there...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Poland suffered a series of dynastic crises during the reigns of Kings Vasa, Sigismund III and Władysław IV, and was involved in major conflicts...

The Battle of Britain, also known as the Air Battle for England (German: die Luftschlacht um England) was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces....

Since 1862, politicians argued with the imperial government about the need to improve the border defenses of Mato Grosso and Rio Grande do Sul, which at that time were dangerously...

In the outbreak of war, the Russian commander-in-chief, grand duke Nicolay, sought to accelerate the invasion of East Prussia in order to ease German pressure on the French...

Falkirk, on July 22, 1298, was one of the largest battles in the First War of Independence in Scotland, in an area southeast of Falkirk village, between a swamp formed by the...

The Battle of Courtrai occurred on 11 July 1302 between a French army under the command of Robert, Count de Artois, and a Belgian urban militia. The mounted French gentlemen were...

The Battle of Poitiers took place on September 19, 1356 in the commune of Nouaillé-Maupertuis, south of the city of Poitiers, France. Preceded by the Battle of Crécy in 1346,...