The cache includes a candid witness account describing his death on May 5, 1821. It confirms the former French Emperor was ...

However, the vital importance of oil to the evolution of human civilisation had to wait until after the Second World War when ...

The Indian governments new ‘Green Wall initiative along the Aravallis echoes a forgotten historical effort — a 19th-century 4,000-km hedge built by the British to curb salt smuggling due to high taxes ...

On Anzac Day, Australians make a promise to our ancestors who fought and died for our way of life and our freedoms: ‘We will ...

As the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial — Americans launched their rebellion against British rule 250 years ...

Trump’s onslaught has been relentless, and no one is safe. If legal residents – immigrants and students – protected by the ...

Anna Wintour has attended the Met Gala since the '80s and became co-chair in 1995. Here's every look she has worn to ...

The long years of fighting Napoleon’s ambitions for a world empire had hardened ... resounding victory against British forces outside New Orleans on January 8, 1815—two weeks after the peace ...

France's demand that Haiti pay it an indemnity to compensate dispossessed French slave-owners when the nation became ...

Behind the Three Graces on Liverpool's waterfront you'll find the George's Dock Building. George’s Dock was one of the ...

THE traditional conception of England among average Frenchmen is expressed in the words "perfidious Albion." Some years ago I made an effort to run down the source of the term. I failed. One meets it ...