The pressures of the 1861-65 Civil War, and the threat of an American invasion, helped urge Canada to its own confederation and independence. "No one can fully understand Canada without ...

The US may have fought the Revolutionary War (the one we call the American War of Independence) to rid themselves of British royal rule but they have never shed their enduring fascination with the ...

Unlike the Ten Years' War, the Cuban Independence Movement of the 1890s ... The Civil War was over, the American west had been settled, and immigration was at record heights.

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence ... to enter the war. Afraid of instigating another English declaration of war, the French had been supporting the American army in ...