Today, we will see how two of their squadrons also carried out a daring naval raid against French and English colonies in America ... support of Spain under Charles II and the Holy Roman Empire under ...

While the First French Colonial Empire saw settlers flock to relatively undeveloped ... Soon, most of the New World was under Spanish control, as this 1582 map of South America shows. The Spanish ...

NICK WRIGHT examines the British ruling class's complex relationship with fascism before, during and after the second world ...

In January 1919, two disparate Ukrainian states – the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the West Ukrainian People’s Republic – merged into one.

The Berlin Conference, held from November 1884 to February 1885, resulted in the ratification of the General Act, accelerating European colonial expansion ... created German Empire, opened the ...

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said ... and Vietnam were French colonies; ...

The Civilization 7 leaders list brings together some of history's most iconic figures, for better or worse, and features ...

As countries became more powerful, they were expected to physically grow, and rivalries were redrawing maps and causing ... up the dreaded words ‘empire,’ ‘colonies’ or ‘imperialism ...

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

The President-elect’s brand of America First isolationism has always sat awkwardly with his Napoleonic tendencies.