After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June ...

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In France, the name Lafayette is well known, but the man behind it – Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette – often fades into the background of the country’s rich historical tapestry. In the United ...

Two hundred years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette, a Frenchman known as a national hero in helping the colonies to win the ...

Empire’s don’t collapse; they commit inevitable suicide by destroying their primary sources of wealth: respect and industry.

I am an avid watcher of Cable News Network (CNN) and a sedulous viewer of the Abby Phillip-hosted ldquo;NewsNight rdquo; ...

Almost exactly two centuries ago, a horse and carriage carrying one of the nation’s biggest celebrities and his small ...

Lacrosse returns to the Olympics in 2028, on American soil. Why won’t the I.O.C. let Indigenous North American teams compete?

Our national identity emerged out of resistance to the first American Revolution – and Canada has been diverging from the U.S ...

You probably know about the battles at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. But the War of Independence also was shaped in ...

Behind the mass killing and expulsion of Palestinians lies a strategic imperative: to restore Jewish demographic dominance across all territory under Israeli colonial control ...

This was no ordinary expedition. It marked the first in-depth study of the geology, ocean conditions, and marine life beneath ...