The Vikings were both famed and feared as warriors and traders. Essential to their exploits was the longship, their light yet ...

Behind his brash exterior, Patton was a brilliant tactician who could even intimidate Adolf Hitler. Leading the 3rd Army, he ...

Reinhard Heydrich, the Aryan fencing virtuoso, ruthlessly crushed all rivals and eradicated any resistance to Nazism. At the peak of his career, he conceived his eternal legacy: "the Final ...

The Great Frost of 1709, also known as the Big Freeze, was a severe and prolonged cold wave that occurred in Europe during the winter of 1708-1709. It resulted in extreme cold temperatures and had ...

When Charlemagne died in 814, his son, Louis the Pious, succeeded him on the throne. After his death, the Treaty of Verdun confirmed the division of the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms.

The Battle on the Ice, also known as the Battle of Lake Peipus, was a decisive military confrontation that took place on April 5, 1242, on the frozen surface of Lake Peipus, the largest lake in Europe ...

There is always an element of naivete when attempting to extrapolate historical events from books that date back thousands of years. Three Wise Men, Macmillan Poster, 1960. But what exactly is the ...

There was a showdown between Vercingetorix’s Gauls and Caesar’s Romans in the Battle of Alesia in 52 BC. Caesar’s influence peaked after the Romans’ triumph, when Gaul capitulated. The Battle of ...

During the Seven Years’ War, which was the first world war, England, Prussia, France, Austria, and Russia fought each other. The war took place from 1756 to 1763. In the mid-18th century, strong ...