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,...

The three countries (population 11 million) historically arrayed against Paraguay (population 450,000) were so superior in numbers that we can conclude that López never had a...

The Battle of Monte Castello marked the presence of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) in the Second World War. It lasted three months, from November 24, 1944 to February 21,...

The Battles of Guararapes were fought on April 18 and 19, 1648 and then on February 19, 1649, between the Dutch Army and the troops of the Portuguese Empire. The battles took...

The Saratoga Campaign of 1777 was an attempt by the British High Command for North America to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River Valley during the...