At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine ... was a climax in pre-war tension between the United States and Spain. In the American press, headlines proclaimed "Spanish Treachery!" ...

73 years have passed since the end of a fierce battle in Okinawa Prefecture during the closing stages of World War 2 ... In April 1945, over 1,300 American naval ships closed in on Okinawa.

By the outbreak of the American Revolution, the militia had thrown in its lot with the Continental Congress and would go on to fight in several Revolutionary War battles. Re-enactors like Mantle ...

"Antiques Roadshow" appraiser Joel Bohy talks with Nanette Osborne, assessing personal documents from the Revolutionary War held in her family for almost 250 years. ("Antiques Roadshow") From Philly ...

Adams knew the American ... war would be long — John Adams had predicted it might span 10 years — and the outcome never assured. On June 17, the Americans experienced their first major ...

Deep sea explorers have found two Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk in battle in World War Two ... only one other ship sunk in this battle had ever been found - the American vessel ...

The “Father of the American Navy” commanded a Russian ... appointed to the Continental Navy. During the Revolutionary War, he commanded ships off the Atlantic coast, in the Caribbean and ...