For years the colonies had flourished in a state of “salutary neglect.” Britain had been content to leave the day-to-day ...

the War of the Rebellion, the Brothers' War, and the Late Unpleasantness. Walt Whitman called it the War of Attempted Secession. Confederate General Joseph Johnston called it the War Against the ...

Americans went to war to win their independence from Great Britain. Just weeks after the outbreak of fighting at Lexington ...

It was apparently safe, with few deaths. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (MSHWR), an extraordinary six-volume work, summarized medical and surgical care in the war.

On the night of 31 October 1954, a series of attacks across colonial Algeria marked the start of the Algerian War – a bloody ...

Despite their strategic location on the American border, the townships of Lower Canada have been largely ignored in studies of the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837-38. Originally settled by ...

In later years, Protestant commentators could point to the 1641 rebellion as proof of Catholic barbarity and perfidy. However, as the author demonstrates, despite some of the outrageous claims made in ...

While this rebellion was largely strangled in its crib ... the president himself, that a long war is beneficial for Russia…are a dangerous illusion," said Ruslan Pukhov, an analyst with the ...