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The Battle of Gaugamela (1st October 331 BCE, also known as the Battle of Arbela) was the final meeting between Alexander the Great of Macedon and King Darius III of Persia. After this victory, Alexander was, without question, the King of...

The Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) was the last major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), fought by a French army under Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) against two armies of the Seventh Coalition. Waterloo resulted in...

The Baker-Fancher party, composed of families from Arkansas, enters the Utah Territory and sets up camp at Mountain Meadows. Mormon militiamen, provoked by the rhetoric of Brigham Young, attack the emigrants while disguised as Native Americans...

When German generals decided on a strategy of attrition to methodically wear down the French Army in the middle of the First World War (1914-18), the Battle of Verdun was the result, an engagement that spiralled out of control and cost both...

The Battle of Lake Erie (10 September 1813), also known as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was a decisive naval engagement in the War of 1812. It saw a squadron of US ships, under Oliver Hazard Perry, defeat a British squadron near Put-in-Bay...

Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux warrior and chief White Bull (l. 1849-1947) in 1926 at the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Photo by Earl Alonzo Brininstool.

The Battle of Actium (2 September 31 BCE, fought in the Ionian Sea off Actium, Greece) was the decisive engagement of the civil war fought between Octavian Caesar (l. 63-14 CE, later known as Augustus, r. 27 BCE - 14 CE) and the forces of...

A map of Virginia, the area where English colonists settled in 1585 and 1587 CE, establishing Roanoke Colony (North Carolina, USA). The map also shows Florida and was made by John White (d. 1593 CE) in 1585 CE. (British Museum, London)

The Battle of Jemappes was a decisive battle in the War of the First Coalition (1792-97), part of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). On 6 November 1792, a French army under General Charles-François Dumouriez defeated an Austrian force...

An illustration by John White (d. 1593 CE) of a North American Indian warrior seen by the first English colonists who attempted to establish a settlement, Roanoke Colony, in 1585 CE (and again in 1587 CE). The colony was located in what is...