By 1700, global trade was deeply entrenched in colonial expansion, financial innovation, and the increasing demand for luxury and staple goods.

It was simply a modest Southampton farmhouse in the early 18th century, a "romantic cottage" on the highest point of the west bank of ...

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

At about 1:30 p.m., Culloden and other ships, including Captain Cuthbert Collingwood (another destined to join the ‘Band of Brothers’) in HMS Excellent, were gradually overhauling the Spanish rear and ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

By early 1797, 38-year-old, Norfolk born Horatio Nelson had been in the Royal Navy for over 26 years. Within the Navy his reputation for dash and bravery was well established, although, to the general ...

Spectacular’ treasures return to Orkney 318 years after being given to captain - Captain James Moodie, of Hoy, was presented with the items by Archduke Charles of Austria in 1707.

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

The 16th-century “Great Siege”, as it became known, had all the ingredients of a romantic epic: individual heroism, brilliant but desperate improvisation, a succession of cliffhanger moments ...

There is an echo of McKinley’s spirit and Roosevelt’s strategy in the early Trump White House. For a president who said that ...

joined the Navy at 15 when he participated in the naval battle fought off the coast of Malaga in the Summer of 1704 between a Bourbon fleet and an Anglo-Dutch squadron during the War of the Spanish ...