A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

Former Eastbourne College pupil is promoted to honorary rank of Field Marshal, the highest possible rank in the army.

Set in 18th-century Cornwall, the show follows a strapping young British Army veteran as he rebuilds his life after war. With drama, steamy romances, and stunning scenery, this hit series is now ...

ALBANY, NY (WRGB) — Lost and found but now home at the New York State Museum, researchers and archaeologists are preparing a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit focused on an 18th-century revolutionary ...

Ever since King Henry VIII severed his nation’s ties to Roman Catholicism in the 16th century, Irish Catholics had suffered for their faith. Their lands were confiscated. They couldn’t bear arms.

While excavating an 18th Century British fort recently discovered in St. Augustine's Lincolnville, archaeologists say they unearthed a moat.

The battle ended in a decisive defeat for the Jacobites, with around 1,600 men killed, 500 of them from the prince’s ranks. It is widely recognised as the last pitched battle fought on British soil.

In 1774, a British army officer named Robert Newburgh was put on trial in North America. As a captain in the 18th Regiment of Foot, he should have been a respected figure within the British military.

The date was Sept. 7, 1812, the place the Battle of Borodino, and the writer Baron Louis-François Lejeune, a staff officer in Napoleon's army.But it could just as easily have been a German ...

Their settlements were an affront to the Spanish but, under the terms of a series of treaties between the British and Spanish in the latter part of the 18th century, they were granted the right to ...

In Aranda's mind, there are two different types of defenses; one that fights like the 18th-century British forces that lined up and took turns firing at an opposing army lined up across from them, and ...

Archeologists in St. Augustine, Florida have discovered evidence of an 18th-century British fort, known as a redoubt. The discovery was made during a routine archeological review, which is ...