Acta Militaria

It was soon clear that the camp at Wano was a hostile environment, and the camp was fired on nightly.  " On the evening of the 28th ...

Background The Waziristan Delineation Escort arose from the treaty of 1893 defining the frontier between British India and Afghanistan,...

From " A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain", by Daniel Defoe, published in 1726. Note that although Defoe describ...

The process which removed the threat of Stuart absolutism, culminating in the victory at Culloden in 1745, began with the "Glorious Rev...

In 1798 an organisation called the United Irishmen incited a revolt in Ireland, with the aim of expelling the British. While it was clea...

An idea of the response of the Papal States, and other countries, to Barbary piracy, can be seen from reports in the London Gazette over th...