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The First Battle of the Marne, fought between 6 and 10 September 1914, was a major and successful Allied counterattack against the German invasion of French territory the previous August. Often...

An illustration by François Maréchal showing King Leopold II of Belgium (reign 1865-1909) carving up the Congo Basin, a reference to the Berlin Conference 1884-5 which set some of the ground rules for...

A photograph of the muddy battlefield at the Battle of Passchendaele (October-November 1917) in Flanders, Belgium during the First World War (1914-18). A tank is shown sunk in the mud. Imperial War Museums

A map showing the German advances through Belgium, the Netherlands, and France which isolated the British Expeditionary Force and necessitated the Dunkirk evacuation of May-June 1940. (United States Military Academy...

This military map of the Sambre River in Northern France and Wallonia, Belgium illustrates key strategic movements and battlefield positions from 1792 to 1794, with particular...

A photograph of the waterlogged battlefield at the Battle of Passchendaele (October-November 1917) near Ypres in Flanders, Belgium during the First World War (1914-18). Photograph taken by Frank Hurley. Imperial...

A photograph of a soldier tending the grave of a fallen comrade near Ypres after the Battle of Passchendaele (October-November 1917) in Flanders, Belgium during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums...

Europe is a continent forming the westernmost part of the land mass of Eurasia and comprised of 49 sovereign states. Its name may come from the Greek myth of Europa, but human habitation of the region predates that tale, going back over...

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was a Corsican-born French general and politician who reigned as Emperor of the French with the regnal name Napoleon I from 1804 to 1814 and then again briefly in 1815. He established the largest...

The Scramble for Africa describes the competition between European imperial powers to first control trade and then territory in Africa in the final two decades of the 19th century. The reasons...