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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (l. 1757-1834), more commonly known in the United States as simply Lafayette, was a French aristocrat, military officer, and politician. He was a major figure in both the...

Medieval European Manorialism (Manorial System) was the system where rural society was arranged around a manor house or castle on an estate. The smallest units of these estates were called manors. Free and unfree labourers here worked the...

The Conway Cabal was a movement undertaken by American military officers and political leaders to remove General George Washington from command of the Continental Army during the winter of 1777-78. These Patriot leaders had lost confidence...

A 1943 photograph of General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), British general and then field marshall during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of the German general Erich von Manstein (1887-1973), shown on the left, after the Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-2 during the Second World War (1939-45). The port in the Crimea was captured by Axis forces commanded by Manstein...

General Order No. 3, issued in Galveston, Texas, 19 June 1865.

A photograph of the United States Army general George Patton (1885-1945). Patton was a key commander in the Second World War (1939-45).

A 1940 photograph of General Heinz Guderian (1888-1954), one of the foremost panzer commanders of the German Army during the Second World War (1939-45). Guderian was insturmental in major German victories during the Fall of France in 1940...

A painting from 1770 presenting the death of General Wolfe during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec. This battle was an important event during the Seven Years' War that laid the foundations of modern-day...

There are many fascinating and forlorn ruins throughout New York’s Hudson Valley, and, among them, the tottering remains of what was once considered the grandest home in the area and among the most famous in the country: Wyndclyffe. Between...