Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...
Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.
The Blue Angels flying team includes some of the most accomplished and skilled pilots in the U.S. Navy. Here are some facts you may not know about it.
Letters and 15,000 Kisses” screamed the headline in an 1898 edition of the English newspaper, the Halifax Evening Courier.Harriet ...
Today’s tariffs usually refer to international trade. But there’s a distinctly old-school, fire-and-brimstone flavour to ...
Born just 13 years after the end of the Civil War, Taylor got his nickname as a youth for wearing a military ... that of two British coins: the penny and the farthing. Speaking of wheels, they were ...
Colonel Richard Hawkins, a trustee at the Royal Engineers Museum, which could face calls from Ethiopia to return items - Crown Copyright British Army units are facing ...
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has unveiled 623 state-of-the-art armoured fighting vehicles as the British Army looks to bolster its firepower amidst rising global tensions. The Boxer armoured ...
The Ajax armed reconnaissance vehicle (ARV) and joint fires observer vehicle (FOV) will soon enter operational use with the British Army after many years of delay. The British Army expects to achieve ...
Britain invaded Abyssinia in 1868 after Emperor Tewodros II took European hostages over a delayed letter to Queen Victoria British Army units are facing a battle over artefacts looted from ...
The British Army has become embroiled in a reparations row after facing calls to return "looted" treasures to Ethiopia. In the aftermath of an 1868 expedition that saw the defeat of an Ethiopian ...