The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...

Pvt. John Towle who, faced with a company-size enemy force with armor support and comported himself like a one-man anti-tank ...

In modern times, other nations invaded Iran, primarily for their oil. Sadly, fighting for oil and other natural resources has ...

Little did Leonidas know that over 2,500 years later, "Molon Lave" would be used as a global marketing tool -from weapons to ...

Tel Aviv and Washington will lose this battle with Tehran, and that failure will have a catalytic impact on peoples across ...

The Battle of Haldighati, fought between Maharana Pratap of Mewar and the Mughal forces led by Man Singh of Amber, has since ...

Travel & Outdoors At His Tours of the Alamo, “It’s Not Just a Battle” For more than 25 years, Ernesto Rodriguez has helped tell the story of the San Antonio landmark.

Thermopylae under German control in April 1941 after the Battle. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place ...

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and ...

The West compared this battle to the Spartans' feat of arms at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Even despite heavy losses in each clash, the enemy still continues to advance. Experts say that the ...

The mortal sacrifice made by Spartan king Leonidas and his 300 elite troops at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. was described in vivid and dramatic detail in the Histories of Herodotus.