This day marks the birthday of the U.S. Navy, because the U.S. Congress ordered its founding on this day in 1775. The U.S. Navy is today by far the largest navy in the wo...
The last battle of the War of Jenkins’ Ear took place on this day in 1748. This oddly-named war broke out in 1739 among two great naval powers – Britain and Spain....
This date in 1899 marked the beginning of the Second Boer War in South Africa, in which the locals (the Boers, mostly of Dutch descent) led a war against the British colo...
On this day a battle took place, one which is according to many historians one of the most decisive and fateful in history. Namely, that battle may well have saved Europe...
In the Seven Years’ War (1756 – 1763), the European powers joined forces against Prussian king Frederick II the Great, the arch-enemy of Maria Theresa. Frederick ea...
On this day in 1912, tiny Montenegro declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Thus began the First Balkan War. The other Christian countries (Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece) ent...
The American-British invasion of Afghanistan commenced on this day in 2001. Its codename was Operation Enduring Freedom, and it was part of the global “War on Terror”. U....
This day in 1881 marked the birth of Walther von Brauchitsch, one of the highest-ranking military commanders in Hitler’s Third Reich. Von Brauchitsch reached the ra...