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,...

After Hanibal s first devastating victories on the Italian peninsula, Fabius employed a skillful campaign of attrition against the Carthaginians - hence his nickname Cunctator....

The battle of the Kalka River (Russian Битва на реке Калке) took place on May 31, 1223, in the ravines of the Kalka River (present-day Kalchik, which flows into...

When Caesar marched into Greece, Pompey had the strategic option of avoiding battle and transporting himself by sea to Italy, securing the peninsula in the absence of Caesar and...

It was the decisive engagement of the Italian War from 1521 to 1526 between the Valois Kingdom of France and the Habsburg empire of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of...

French involvement in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783 began when France, a hotbed of Enlightenment ideas and a historic rival to the Kingdom of Great Britain,...