See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship ... and made a show of placing women in high-profile government positions.

British General Charles Cornwallis ordered the burning of a Continental Army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg in 1781. What he hoped to destroy forever was recently found by archaeologists ...

People in Africa were burdened by colonial ... soldiers by the French. Senegalese soldiers continued to be in the French army after World War II. This stands in contrast with the British, who ...