A true but little known story from the Haitian Revolution. Late in the war, things were looking grim for sketchy old France, ...

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Salomon was a Jew who had been born in Poland in the 1700s. Russia, Prussia, and Austria were busy carving up Poland for themselves, and Salomon found a way to flee that place that was doubly ...

The balance of power is shifting in Europe, and NATO member Poland is on track to surpass Russia in terms of having more tanks and armored vehicles. Two factors are at play—both tied to the war in ...

Mathematician John Napier predicts end of the world in 1688 or 1700. 1728: John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera” premieres ...

In the late 18th century, Poland was partitioned out of existence by its neighbors—Prussia, Russia and Austria. Toruń, the city where Zo was born, was in Prussian-annexed territory, and she and ...

Trump has an epochal opportunity to turn the Danes’ ice wastes into gold. This article is the first of two parts.

In the summer of 1863 Queen Victoria, in her first diplomatic role since the death of Albert, attended a gathering of the rulers of both Prussia and Austria. In the same hall where her parents were ...

The present war, the Ethiopian war, the World War, the Boer War, the Franco-Prussian War, the war between Germany and Austria, the war between Prussia and Denmark, the FrancoSardinian war against ...

In the Convention of 1840, for the pacification of the Levant, Great Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Turkey were in accord. Mehmet Ali was declared hereditary governor of Egypt, and ...